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Monday, March 31st, 2008

Food for car


Source: Energy Farms Network
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Monday, March 31st, 2008

It Looks Like a Rather Blustery Year


By Shaun le Roux
Hum for a Blustery Day - Winnie the Pooh
Hum dum dum ditty dum
Hum dum dum
Oh the wind is lashing lustily
And the trees are thrashing thrustily
And the leaves are rustling gustily
So it’s rather safe to say
That it seems that it may turn out to be
It feels that it will undoubtedly
It looks like a [...]

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Monday, March 31st, 2008

It’s better than we think


Foreign observers more optimistic than people at home, writes Rowan Philp for the Sunday Times, Business Times (South Africa).
Jane’s Information Group, the prestigious defence industry analyst, ranked SA alongside fast-growing economies like Ukraine and Vietnam in its inaugural “Country Risk Ratings”, which analysed 232 countries and territories.
The report echoes a series of recent international reports [...]

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Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 24 – 30, 2008)


“This is one ‘mother’ of a market,” 83-year old market veteran Richard Russell aptly described what market participants were again faced with during the past week. Sentiment was fragile as the outlook was still dominated by the familiar cast of deteriorating economic data, housing woes and concerns about the financial sector. Read all about this in my regular weekly blog post, highlighting some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week, and briefly reviewing the week’s market action.

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