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Author: Prieur Du Plessis

Q1 global stock market performance in review

Sitting a stone’s throw from the turquoise Caribbean sea in Santo Domingo (see Gone A.W.O.L – lite blogging and full planes), I nevertheless managed to compile a summary of the movements of major global stock markets for the...

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Help Japan – sell the yen

Although the debt malaise in Greece has (temporarily) been addressed through an EU/IMF agreement of sorts, sovereign debt concerns will remain on center stage for quite a while. Besides the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy,...

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Kirk Citron: And now, the real news

The following fascinating talk comes courtesy of TED: “How many of today’s headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron’s ‘Long News’ project collects stories that not only matter today, but will resonate for decades –...

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Buy and hold is dead, says Acuthan

Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), predicts (via Yahoo Finance – Tech Ticker) that the US has entered a period of “more ‘boom and bust’-type cycles,” similar to what occurred in...

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Dollar rally to see final push

The recent dollar rebound is becoming an “overcrowded trade”, but there is a “final oomph to come,” Robin Griffiths from Cazenove Capital told CNBC. The US Dollar Index could push toward 90 points over the next few months, he...

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