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Prieur’s readings (November 27, 2009)

Posted By Prieur du Plessis On November 27, 2009 @ 11:10 am In Investment,Markets,Money | No Comments


This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Jim Krane (Financial Times): Dubai gambles with its financial reputation [1], November 26, 2009.
The government’s decision to postpone debt repayments could make the emirate’s rivals more attractive, persuading international companies to decamp to Doha or Abu Dhabi.

• Roula Khalaf (Financial Times): Emirate has a lot of explaining to do [2], November 26, 2009.
The decision to ask bondholders of Dubai World to extend maturities from December to May 2010 was a bombshell and the emirate will pay the price for a long time to come.

• Steve Hanke (CATO Institute): 2009 in charts [3], November 2009.
This has been a very good year for charts and tables. In this article, Prof Hanke updates some of his favorites.

• Jeremy Warner (Telegraph): As one crisis recedes, the fiscal one may be only beginning [4], November 25, 2009.
It is hard to recall a time when opinion on asset markets was more sharply polarised between bulls and bears. But then it is also hard to recall a time when the future course of the world economy looked so uncertain.

• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Telegraph): China, gold, and the civilization shift [5], November 26, 2009.
Stephen Jen from the hedge fund Blue Gold Capital has a warning for those who think that gold has risen far too high, is necessarily in a speculative bubble, and must soon come clattering back down. Mr Jen is an expert on sovereign wealth funds from his days at Morgan Stanley. The gold story – essentially – is that the rising economic powers of Asia, the Middle East, and the commodity bloc are rejecting Western fiat currencies. China, India, and Russia have all been buying gold on a large scale over recent months. Why should that stop when the AAA club of sovereign debtors is pushing towards the danger threshold of 100% of GDP?

• Robert Lenzner (Forbes): Run with the gold bulls [6], November 25, 2009.
As long as the cost of borrowing money is zero, gold will continue to strengthen and the dollar will continue to weaken.

• Nouriel Roubini (Forbes): Will the world go shopping? [7] November 26, 2009.
The wobbly holiday retail outlook in North America and Europe.

• Alan Beattie in London and Geoff Dyer (Financial Times): Free-market ideals survive the crunch [8], November 26, 2009.
Beyond the financial crisis: The global crisis prompted more than the loss of a string of financial institutions, it also inflicted collateral damage to the ideology that had sustained the rich world, or at least the US – that of finance capitalism.

• William Watson (Financial Post): How to deal with bubbles [9], November 25, 2009.
Lean or clean: Should central banks lean against the bubble winds, or wait to clean up after the bubble has burst?

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[1] Dubai gambles with its financial reputation: http://link.ft.com/r/9ULF66/6O9VW/DWHF4/6VZ7XK/TFU71/E4/t

[2] Emirate has a lot of explaining to do: http://link.ft.com/r/9ULF66/6O9VW/DWHF4/6VZ7XK/MISOT/E4/t

[3] 2009 in charts: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11006

[4] As one crisis recedes, the fiscal one may be only beginning: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/6655685/As-one-crisis-recedes-the-fiscal-one-may-be-only-beginning.html

[5] China, gold, and the civilization shift: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100002252/china-gold-and-the-civilization-shift/

[6] Run with the gold bulls: http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/25/newmont-kinross-vancouver-personal-finance-investing-ideas-eldorado-gold.html

[7] Will the world go shopping?: http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/25/global-retail-outlook-holiday-opinions-columnists-nouriel-roubini.html

[8] Free-market ideals survive the crunch: http://link.ft.com/r/9ULF66/6O9VW/DWHF4/6VZ7XK/D7WUG/E4/t

[9] How to deal with bubbles: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/11/25/william-watson-how-to-deal-with-bubbles.aspx

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[11] (What's this?): http://www.wikinvest.com/blogger/wikinvest_wire

[12] Cheap Stocks 26 Net/Net Index Update- Up 18.6% since inception: http://stocksbelowncav.blogspot.com/2012/01/cheap-stocks-26-netnet-index-update-up.html

[13] Bluepoint daily market view – January 27, 2012: http://www.blue-point-trading.com/bluepoint-daily-market-view-%E2%80%93-january-27-2012

[14] The Big Picture for the Week of November 27, 2011: http://randomroger.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-picture-for-week-of-november-27.html

[15] Galaxy Entertain: http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Galaxy_Entertain_(HKG:27)

[16] China MTR Bus CO: http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/China_MTR_Bus_CO_(HKG:26)

[17] Wikinvest: http://www.wikinvest.com

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