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- Are You Part of The NYSE: PTR Stock Opportunity As Yet? - Editor, 4 March 2008 - No Comments yet
- Nirvana through Rebirth in the Stock Market after Foreclosure - Editor, 3 March 2008 - No Comments yet
- Rising Grain Prices Bond the US with China and Allies Alike - Editor, 29 February 2008 - 1 Comment
- How Australia Beats Alan Greenspan through Future Fund, and You Can Too - Editor, 28 February 2008 - No Comments yet
- Make Housing Stock Your Stock Market Hedge Fund - Editor, 27 February 2008 - 1 Comment
- What Does Cuba Hold for Your Stock Yield? - Editor, 26 February 2008 - No Comments yet
- What Should Foreign Stock Market Players Do When The US Is Unwell? - Editor, 25 February 2008 - No Comments yet
Freedom activists wear China bashing on their sleeves. Spielberg can afford this, but it does not pay in stock trading. Beijing and big business are in cahoots. Read about how their giant corporations stalk the stock market world at one of our sister sites: Does China Business Have a New Strategy and How Does That Affect You?
The housing market and stock have always competed for our savings. Real estate appreciation means just as much as owning a home. The number of homes a person has is an easy way to tell how rich he or she must be. However, there are times when stock can appreciate more than housing. 2008 is probably one such year.
There are no signs of aliens coming to destroy us, but even so there are scenes from the 1996 movie ‘Independence Day’ developing in real life. It started with successive years of drought in Australia, a major grain exporter. China has never had to bother about growing all its food needs, but sourcing grain on the world market gets tougher by the day.
They care for the environment, love sports, and have sent troops to Iraq. You may not be impressed with the apology to their native citizens, unless you are an Aleutian, but Australians are clearly near the top of our pile of allies.
Emotional reports of foreclosures and sub-prime crimes by wealthy executives have dominated stock market news for some time now. Could months of indignation have clouded our judgments of the whole housing situation?
Who knows when Fidel’s retirement will get the economy of Cuba moving again? Some stock market quarters have begun to buy everything with the word ‘Cuba’ in its name, but some of these stocks have more business in friendly Caribbean isles, rather than in and around Havana.
Should we care? Why can’t global types use online trading and leave each stock market to its own devices? Well, that is not how markets operate anymore.
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Recent Articles
- U.S. Stock Markets Subdued Ahead Of U.S. Presidential Election - Editor, Tuesday 4 November 2008
- Stock Market Volatility And Trading Volumes Indicate Investors Are Still Trading - Editor, Thursday 30 October 2008
- Pension Plans/Retirement Funds Hard Hit By Economic Crisis - Editor, Monday 27 October 2008
- Third Quarter Corporate Earnings and Possible Additional Federal Reserve Intervention Affect See-Sawing Market - Editor, Wednesday 22 October 2008
- Investor Confidence Knocked By Volatile Market – and Vice Versa - Editor, Friday 17 October 2008
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