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• How Stock Market Hounds Smell Bad Loans - Editor, 15 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Let the stock market call a spade a spade, because euphemisms tend to breed dangerous complacency! Bulls and bears are part of stock market life, but classic lessons from abominable errors are not to be lost. They say that history repeats itself, so every repeat stock market boom is welcome. However, history does not prevent anyone from learning, and what better lesson than a crash? The latter could be too acerbic a term for the sub-prime story, but it is grave enough from a process perspective.

• Why the Stock Market May Find the Technology Shelter Flimsy - Editor, 14 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Why is it that the typical stock market investor trusts things he or she does not understand? Show investors figures, projections, and tables-things with which they have lived all their professional lives, and they are the hardest nuts you can find anywhere! Then a new kid comes along with an idea about which no one truly has a clue, and all of a sudden capital chases this person from all directions!

• A Low Key Gold Rush on the Indian Stock Market - Editor, 9 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Indians, like the Chinese, have an insatiable appetite for gold. They may hoard additional quantities of it when the stock market is in the doldrums, but do not liquidate holdings even in the fiercest bull-run. The average Indian wedding turns the occasion in to a kind of Fort Knox, with the yellow metal in evidence everywhere, especially on women!

• A Marketing Update for Stock Market Wizards - Editor, 8 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Finance professionals dominate the stock market scene, and though some of the younger players, or ones with exposure to sectors such as retail banking, may have some exposure to marketing, the veterans of analyzing securities have traditionally steered clear of anything to do with customers.

• New Seduction from Brussels for Stock Market Investors - Editor, 7 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Every stock market investor has nightmares about executives and entrepreneurs pouring precious capital down a drain, or running away with it! That is why any new initiative to protect the interests of stock market investors is welcomed with large dollops of fresh capital influxes. One of the most important characteristics of any stock market is now what it does to protect small investors. The MIFID or Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is a path-setting initiative by the European Union.

• Rush to This Top Stock Market Opportunity Down Under! - Editor, 6 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Liquid Natural Gas or LNG is amongst the least understood and appreciated natural resources, as far as the average stock market is concerned. Japan stands out for pioneering the use of this relatively safe and sound form of energy, while South Korea has lost little time in seizing on the opportunity as well. LNG is not the cheapest fuel around, but increasing numbers of countries and industrial sectors have begun to realize the enormous benefits of diversifying their energy sources to include LNG.

• How to Use Stock Market Governance Variations for Your Benefits - Editor, 2 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Who knows if it is a coincidence, or by some grand design hidden from general stock market view? You have countries with double-digit growth, and there are others which send you to prison for insider trading. Oh for a stock market with growth and governance all in one place!

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