British politician and the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage has slammed EU bosses over European crisis. “It’s even more serious than economics because if you rob people of their identity, if you rob them...
Read MoreBill Gross, co-founder and co-CIO of PIMCO, is to my mind one of the shrewdest money men around. His monthly Investment Outlook newsletter therefore always makes for thought-provoking reading.The following are a few excerpts...
Read MoreMarket commentator Charles Nenner, head of research at the Charles Nenner Research Center, shares his predictions for 2011.Source: CNBC, November 30, 2011 (hat tip: Financial Doom Blog).Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Gray Newman of Morgan Stanley.In July, Brazil’s central bank faced significant criticism when it slowed the pace of its rate-hiking cycle – a cycle that had just begun in April – and prepared...
Read MoreSource: Chris Britt, Comics.com, December 1, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreBy André Coetzee of Kagiso Securities.The seasonally adjusted Kagiso PMI bounced back in November, rising by just more than 3 index points to reach 52.9. The November gain followed two consecutive months of below 50 readings...
Read MoreJitters in global financial markets as a result of European debt problems, Chinese tightening and Korean hostilities impacted stocks negatively in November (and boosted the U.S. dollar and gold bullion).The performance of a...
Read MoreHans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sports commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never...
Read MoreI have argued on a number of occasions recently that I thought stock markets were in a corrective phase, expecting the process to continue to mean revert (at least partially) to the key moving averages.The tables below indicate...
Read MoreI received the following e-mail from a reader of Investment Postcards a few days ago:“You have to know that I truly enjoy using your blog. It’s very useful and a really effective tool for everyone! Actually, I found it through...
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