Why the basics look so bad for investment in UK property
Still historically high house prices, very low rental returns and interest rates that are so low that they cannot last. This is the toxic cocktail facing would be investors in UK housing this summer.
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Nakheel and Limitless fade into history in Dubai restructuring
Nakheel, the company that once boasted that it got the vision of Dubai built, and Limitless whose name said it all, are to disappear with their demerger from the the Dubai World conglomerate and the…
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Marc Faber says US debt problem is Greece times a thousand
Echoing hedge fund manager Jim Chanos’ description of Chinese real estate as Dubai times a thousand, Dr. Marc Faber says he sees the US debt problem ‘as Greece times a thousand’.
However, in the short-term…
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John Mauldin sees a very risky next six months, risk trade back on!
What on earth is happening in financial markets? Risk on? Risk off? Debt downgrades pending for sovereigns that might even include the USA, let alone Greece, Portugal and their fellow sufferers.
Doyen of the financial…
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S&P says Greek debt plan is a default after all
Last week a few votes in the Greek parliament momentarily seemed to have sent their debt crisis into financial history. But the whole can of worms has been reopened by an assertion by Standard &…
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Is it best to buy UAE stocks or property as an investment?
Now the presumption behind this headline is that the UAE economy is now in a recovery phase after the recession that followed the global financial crisis that was considerably amplified by a local property crash…
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Massive IT redundancies to add to US job woes this week
After the Independence Day holiday the United States returns to markets where the Greek debt problem is subordinated and the focus of interest will shift to the ability of the US economy to create or…
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Private equity activity slumps in the Middle East, when will it pick up?
The value of Middle Eastern private equity deals slumped by 84 per cent to just $25 million in the first half of 2011 in comparison with the same period of 2010, according to the newly…
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How best to profit from inflation
The Bank of International Settlements has recently warned the central banks of the world that without interest rate hikes very soon inflation is really going to take off. Chinese food price increases of 11.7 per…
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US stock market relief rally built on false hopes for Independence Day
Last week US stocks rallied more than five per cent, regaining 75 per cent of the losses of a bruising two months of falls. Nothing changed in the US to merit the rise. The immediate…
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