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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Stock Market: Shanghai Blues - An Invitation?

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This morning the stock market in Shanghai fell to its lowest level since 2009 ( bloomberg ). This is surprising because the economic indic...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Investing: Hedge Fund Managers - Just A Bunch Of Swashbucklers?

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Hedge fund managers are the rock stars of the investment world ( money-markets-blog.amazon.com ). The whole industry is called "smart...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Economy: A Virtuous Circle?

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It looks like that the economic recovery is speeding up again - at least in the US, the leading economy of the world. On Friday we got new...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Stock Market: Looking Forward To Christmas

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Being an investor I`m looking forward to Christmas. The reason: This morning we got news that "retailers generally posted better than...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Economy: Sex On Campus

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  (Drivebycuriosity) - Recently the online version of the U.K.`s Daily Mail had an interesting headline: "Finance students are the mo...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Stock Market: Why This Earnings Season Is Encouraging!

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The stock market is singing the blues again. "Concern about a worsening of the earnings picture has sent the S&P 500 down 3.5 per...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Oil: Game Over?

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According to Bloomberg, today Iran threatened, "to halt all oil exports if sanctions intensify" ( bloomberg ). And Iran`s oil mi...
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Gerhard Maier
I am a retired economist & aficionado of Indian food, heavy metal, contemporary art & science fiction who enjoys traveling
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