Jobs – questionable successes
Source: Chuck Asay, Slate.com, February 25, 2010. Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
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Home price health?
Home price data continues to show a mixed picture. Robert Shiller, originator of the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices and economics professor at Yale, and David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P index committee, discuss data...
Read MorePrieur’s readings (February 25, 2009)
This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. • Sewell Chan (The New York Times): Bernanke expects extended low rates, February 24, 2010. Ben Bernanke,...
Read MoreMobius – Building blocks for good investing
The post below is a guest contribution by Mark Mobius, Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets guru. One of my blog readers is a young university graduate from Hong Kong, who wants to pursue finance and investment as a...
Read MoreBernanke: “Fed Funds rate to remain exceptionally low for an extended period”
This post is a guest contribution by Asha Bangalore* of The Northern Trust Company. The most important message from Chairman Bernanke’s testimony is that the federal funds rate will be held at 0%-0.25% for an extended period. ...
Read MoreToyota in Washington …
Source: Jim Morin, Slate.com, February 24, 2010. Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreDon’t change something that is not broken
By Neels van Schaik of Alphen Asset Management. Significant rallies in stock prices usually draw in huge amounts of new cash towards the peak. That is how stock markets work and that is how human nature works. Given the rally we...
Read MoreData turns benign for a 0.5% rate cut
By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of FNB. It isn’t a done deal yet. The final decision is for the SARB Governor and her Monetary Policy Committee. But the data is shaping benignly for another rate cut. As for the risks to the...
Read MoreFace-to-face with Marc Faber
Marc Faber, editor of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, sits down with Ben McLannahan, Asia Lex Writer of the Financial Times, to discuss a variety of pertinent economic and investment topics. In short, he suggests investors...
Read MoreGDP lead sectors take off but rest lags
By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist FNB. Growth in GDP (total goods and services produced in the economy, excluding inflation) speeded up in the 4Q2009, confirming the recovery gaining strength. In the first quarter of recovery...
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