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The bull market that commenced on March 9, 2009, has just market its first anniversary. A summary of the movements of major global stock markets for the past 12 months, as well as various other measurement periods, is provided in this post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Copper Prices Jump after Earthquake in Chile (Wealth Daily, 3/1/10) Quake Can’t Shake U.S.-Listed Chile Stocks (tickerspy.com, 3/4/10) Ten Reasons to Invest in Chile (Top Foreign Stocks, 2/17/10) 
James Montier needs no introduction to the readers of Investment Postcards. A two-part interview with Montier comes courtesy of Miguel Barbosa, editor of the Simolean Sense blog, who has kindly given me permission to publish this excellent material here. The first part is reported in this post and the second part will follow tomorrow. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Preferred Stock Investing: The Income Alternative You Haven’t Considered (Investment U, 5/11/12) Measuring the Performance of the Ivy Portfolio (Phil’s Stock World, 12/1/12) Value Investing: Investing for Grown Ups (Value Investing, 4/23/12)
I reported previously on the DiscoverCard Small Business Watch, i.e. monitoring small businesses with cash flow issues. As shown in this post, the situation has improved somewhat, although 49% of owners have still experienced cash flow issues in the past 90 days. Read on … [...]
A recent Q&A with Mark Mobius, Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets guru, is shared in this post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Emerging Market Bonds: Less Risk Than You Think (Investment U, 5/11/12) Emerging Markets: The Ultimate High Growth Investments (Investment U, 4/3/12) Investing in Emerging Markets with U.S.-Traded ADRs (Money Morning, 5/7/12)
George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, who has just returned from meetings in Washington with US officials and President Obama, sits with Charlie Rose to discuss the Greek debt malaise. A link to the transcript of the interview follows at the end of the post Click here or on the image [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Oil Prices and the Death of Greece (Money Morning, 5/17/12) Greece’s Upcoming Election May Be its Undoing (Wall Street Daily, 4/12/12) Greece Secures Bailout, Gold Prices Respond (Learn Mining News, 2/23/12) |
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Don Coxe webcast – updated (May 4, 2012)
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