12 « March « 2010 « Investment Postcards from Cape Town

This post reports on the “Daily Growth Index”, a US consumption index that usually leads changes in US GDP. Read on … […]

Interview: James Montier on behavioral investing

By Prieur du Plessis, on March 12th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

I yesterday posted part 1 of a two-part interview with GMO’s James Montier. The second part, dealing with bahavioral investing, follows in this post. […]

The Financial Darwin Awards

By Prieur du Plessis, on March 12th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

The Daily Reckoning Financial Darwin Awards recognize the efforts of companies that, through dedication to idiocy, ended their own lives. The recipient of the dumb-dumb award, as well as the names of the finalists, are given in this post. […]

Technical talk: Hard to see a big correction here

By Prieur du Plessis, on March 12th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

“Currently individual investor allocations towards equities are slightly below the mean, which puts us in a zone where, though reduced, buying power is still ample. With buying power relatively strong and the AAII Bull Sentiment Survey still at a relatively neutral reading, it’s hard to see a big correction here,” said technical analyst Kevin Lane in this guest post. […]

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How Russia sees the world

By Prieur du Plessis, on March 12th, 2010 posted in: Russia

Hot on the heel’s of yesterday’s post on “How China sees the world”. […]

Harry Markopolos’s unfinished Madoff business

By Prieur du Plessis, on March 12th, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

Madoff hunter Harry Markopolos talks with David Weidner about how the SEC has fared since the Ponzi scheme was uncovered, and about what kind of regulatory role he would accept in Washington. […]