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 By Prieur du Plessis, on March 1st, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money  3 people had their say - chime in!
One of the major questions facing investors is how the US equity market will react if the Federal Reserve decides to tighten monetary policy by hiking the Fed fund rate, i.e. when the “juice” that propelled many strong advances in risky assets over the past few months is removed. Read on … [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Fed Funds Rate? Fuhgeddaboudit! (Hard Assets Investor, 2/11/10) Gold Prices Jump When Bernanke Hints at Stimulus (Learn Mining News, 4/10/12) Dissension in the ranks, the market tanks (I'm a poet!) (AlphaNinja, 1/27/10) 
In this post, Charlie Munger, the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, discusses the economic crisis with Professor Joseph Grundfest, Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School. [...]
This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Emerging Market Bonds: Less Risk Than You Think (Investment U, 5/11/12) Bonds: The Most Important Asset Class (Expected Returns, 4/18/12) Investing in Bonds: How to Build a Bond Ladder (Money Morning, 4/24/12)
Louise Yamada, managing director of Louise Yamada Technical Research Advisors, talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox about the outlook for bond markets and her investment strategy. In short, she is of the opinion that the 29-year bull market in long-term government bonds is close to a reversal. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Bonds: The Most Important Asset Class (Expected Returns, 4/18/12) Emerging Market Bonds: Less Risk Than You Think (Investment U, 5/11/12) How to Play Low Natural Gas Prices With Bonds (Investment U, 4/17/12)
“The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is making tough decisions right now. Its mandate, ‘to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates’, is a seriously tall order given current economic conditions,” argues Rebecca Wilder in this guest post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) What Today’s Unemployment News Means (Learn Mining News, 5/4/12) Gold Prices Jump When Bernanke Hints at Stimulus (Learn Mining News, 4/10/12) U.S. Economy Showdown: Krugman vs. Bernanke (Money Morning, 5/2/12) |
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