Laugh out Loud: Catch a job
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Dave Frost: Face to face with Julian Assange
Julian Assange, the co-founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks – which is currently releasing over 250,000 confidential American diplomatic cables – is in the UK fighting extradition to Sweden where he is...
Read MoreBarron’s confidence back at October ‘07
The Barron’s Confidence Index is an indicator worth monitoring. This Index is calculated by dividing the average yield on high-grade bonds by the average yield on intermediate-grade bonds. The discrepancy between the...
Read MoreWealthtrack: Dan Fuss on bonds
This week on WealthTrack, Consuela Mack interviews legendary bond manger Dan Fuss, vice chairman of Loomis Sayles & Company. Fuss has 50 years’ experience in the investment management industry and also manages a...
Read MoreJames Montier: In defense of the “old always”
James Montier needs no introduction to the readers of Investment Postcards. Prior to joining as member of GMO’s Asset Allocation Team in 2009, he was co-head of Global Strategy at Société...
Read MoreWill the bulls keep running?
Historically, the third year for a president produces a good return for investors. Investment strategists Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist of Charles Schwab, and Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist of Standard...
Read MoreTechnical Talk: S&P 500 remains in upward channel, for now
The comments below were provided by Kevin Lane of Fusion IQ.As seen below the S&P 500 Index is clearly well above the April/May peak (red lines). Additionally, the index remains within the confines of a large bullish upward...
Read MoreA poetic look at 2010
John Murphy is not only the top charting honcho at StockCharts.com, but he has also just produced an excellent summary of 2010’s investment happenings – written very admirably as a poem.Twas the night before...
Read MoreGlobal debt monitor – in pictures
Moody’s Analytics Dismal Scientist provides a handy set of charts for monitoring the global debt situation, as shown below. In short, not a set of pictures investors should become complacent about any time...
Read MoreChina’s dog of a year
The Shanghai Composite fell 11.4% this year even as China overtook Japan as the world’s second largest economy. Yet Chinese equities are still in demand internationally, leading to wildly divergent valuations, as James...
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