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Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Stock markets: white knuckles and shaky knees

As nervousness among investors mount in the wake of the gyrations of financial markets, the key question remains whether something more serious than a normal (and overdue) mid-cycle correction is starting to manifest itself.
On the fundamental front, the credit bubble would appear to have been irreparably punctured and, failing bail-out actions by the Fed, it […]

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Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Cramer: “Bernanke, wake up”

Mad Money host Jim Cramer made a passionate, and quite amazing, plea to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on CNBC yesterday. He urged Bernanke to cut interest rates and, in turn, help the market and the people who were losing their jobs on Wall Street.
This is video footage at its alarming best: entertaining and controversial, […]

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Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Follow the movies, and make a mint on stock markets

Bear markets, and their inevitable casualties, could undoubtedly produce all the soppy ingredients for ready-made movie scripts, and possibly spawn a few Hollywood bestsellers. But is there a direct link between the quantum of horror movies being produced and the incidence of bear markets? Or, on the other side of the pendulum, the number of feel-good movies […]

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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Global stock market performance round-up (July 31, 2007)

 
What you see may not be what you get, especially when analyzing historical stock market performance. One would be excused for thinking that global stock markets were on an uninterrupted upward path when considering their good gains in US dollar for the three months ended July 31, 2007. But that is only part of the […]

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