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Monday, April 28th, 2008

Emerging market investors neutral on South Africa


By Kevin Lings
The Global Emerging Markets Strategist from Morgan Stanley in London has provided us with updated data on the latest (as of April 22) benchmark weights for the MSCI Emerging Market countries as well as the weight of South Africa in the average dedicated Emerging Market Fund.
As at 22 April South Africa had [...]

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Monday, April 28th, 2008

Synonyms for recession


Hat tip: Barry Ritholtz’s The Big Picture
 
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (April 21 – 27, 2008)


The last week was characterized by investors increasingly taking the view that the worst of the credit crisis was over. They seemed to be shrugging off further substantiation of the dreadful state of the US housing situation, as they digested the latest round of quarterly earnings reports. 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.

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Friday, April 25th, 2008

Poll of the Week: Stock markets – which way José?


It has become an international pastime to try to figure out where in the stock market cycle we are. Let’s try a new approach: I am going to rely on your collective wisdom and ask you to express your opinion on the direction of the stock market. All you need to do is to think about this for a short while and then provide your answers by clicking the appropriate button on two quick polls.

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