How to profit from a stock market crash
Every time there is a major stock market crash there is always somebody who successfully shorts the market and walks away with a fortune at a time when most investors are losing their shirts.
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Hard landing for China, S&P to 800 and deflation warns veteran economist Gary Shilling
Veteran economist Gary Shilling appeared on Bloomberg TV yesterday (link here) and forecast a massive deflation with a hard landing for China compounding an already difficult position for commodity prices. He predicted the…
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Arab Spring liquidity to help shield the UAE from eurozone sovereign debt blow-up
For the United Arab Emirates this is not quite late 2008 all over again with round two of the global crisis about to break with the bankruptcy of Greece. A flood of liquidity from the…
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Restaurant review: Ruth’s Chris Steak House’s lunchtime bargain in the Monarch Dubai
Pop along to the Monarch Hotel opposite the Dubai World Trade Centre and its exhibition halls and you will be pleasantly surprised by the Ruth’s Chris Steak House’s new lunchtime set menu at AED119 with…
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Gold up 25%, silver 40%, still the best performing assets of the past 12 months
Even after corrections that have taken down gold prices 10 per cent in the past month and silver 25 per cent, investors are still left well out front holding these precious metals over the past…
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VIX fear indicator shows professional traders not convinced by three-day stock rally
Elevated readings for the VIX fear indicator show that Wall Street traders are far from convinced by the three-day stockmarket rally on what may just be wishful thinking about a resolution of the eurozone crisis.…
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No real solution in sight for the eurozone, markets close to a crash, trader tells BBC
With refreshing candour market trader Alessio Rastani shocked the BBC with his predictions of an imminent implosion of global financial markets. Yet this is only what the majority of traders believe and it is an…
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Nakheel launches first project on The Palm Jumeirah in three years
The contrast is stark between Nakheel’s launch of a 1-km-high tower at the Cityscape exhibition three years ago and the unveiling today of a modest development of 102 beachfront town houses on a new promontary…
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Gold rebounds $100, silver by 20% as eurozone mulls $2.7 trillion bailout
In a memorable 24-hours that most gold and silver investors would rather forget, unless they took ArabianMoney’s advice and bought the metals, gold was up $100 from yesterday and silver recovered from a mini-flash-crash from…
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Silver drops to $25 as we forecast for the late summer low
This is proving something of an inverse Indian summer for silver. The low of $25 we thought might come in late July (click here) has actually come at the start of October.
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