Comex position is bullish again for silver prices
Silver prices are set in the Comex futures pit in Chicago, and traders are becoming excited again by prospects for the shiniest of metals because of the supply and demand position within the exchange.
What…
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Qatar Airways IPO this autumn would be good news for Gulf stocks
Qatar Airways may bring forward its planned 2012 initial public offering to later this year, CEO Akbar Al Baker told reporters today. A successful IPO of this size would be good news for all the…
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Summer confidence tricksters are not real financial advisers
The phone rings on a quiet summer day and a pleasant young man or woman introduces him or herself as interested in helping you with your long-term financial planning. What could be a better and…
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Nouriel Roubini predicts a ‘perfect storm’ for 2013 but will it be earlier?
Dr Doom Nouriel Roubini, who correctly predicted the US subprime crisis in 2006 is making waves again by predicting a ‘perfect storm’ for the global economy in 2013.
ArabianMoney wonders if his analysis is correct…
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What are the investment implications of a recession in China?
Doyen of market forecasters Marc Faber has recently voiced his support for short-king Jim Chanos’s view on China (click here), namely that the Middle Kingdom is facing a recession. The signs of an overheating…
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Jim Rogers shorting US financials and emerging markets
Jim Rogers talks his own investment book in this CNBC interview. He remains long gold and silver and would like to buy more in a correction. But curiously is shorting US financials and emerging markets,…
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Black Monday coming for stock markets, sell, sell, sell!
Stock markets still look amazingly high for the increasingly gloomy economic outlook. But the long rally in US equities turned down six weeks ago and shows no signs of recovery. The Japanese earthquake disaster is…
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Marc Faber forecasts recession in China and big losses for the rich
Always a commentator with his finger on the pulse, Dr Marc Faber thinks the affluence of the rich cannot last much longer, and in particular he reckons a recession is coming in China as soon…
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Why holding precious metals into a market sell-off can make sense
It may be counter-intuitive but holding on to precious metals into the growing sell-off in financial markets could still make sense for many investors. Becoming a trader and hoping to cash out now and buy…
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Opec oil cartel falls apart, higher oil prices risk another recession
The latest Opec oil summit in Vienna was the worst in the history of the organization, according to Gulf participants. Opec split down the middle over the need for increased oil production and could not…
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