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Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Words from the wise for the week that was (Sept 24 – 30, 2007)


Before highlighting some memorable quotes from market commentators during the past week, let’s briefly review the week’s ups and downs on the basis of a few bar charts.
Worries of the recent credit market turmoil diminished during the week as weak economic news was interpreted as ammunition for further interest rate reductions. Emerging markets as a [...]

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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Words from the wise for the week that was (Sept 17 - 23, 2007)


This is a rather quickly-compiled version of this regular weekly posting, but it nevertheless includes a few super quotes, as I have been spending most of the past two days on airplanes crisscrossing Europe. And this is also the reason for having been rather quiet with new content on the blog. But I am now [...]

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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Gold bullion showing Dow a clean pair of heels


My bullish stance on gold is old hat by now, but that does not take anything away from my excitement to keep riding this profitable play.
I have also for a while been favoring gold bullion relative to US industrial stocks, actually relative to most mature-market equities. As a matter of fact, I took Richard Russell [...]

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Monday, September 17th, 2007

US economy - R or no R?


One of the most perplexing and widely-debated financial issues is whether the US economy will experience the dreaded R (= recession) in the current cycle.
Highly-regarded Asha Bangalore of Northern Trust argues that the sharp downturn in US private residential investment is pointing to a downswing in US GDP growth. She motivates this in terms of [...]

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