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- Short ETFs: Time to Buy - Not Sell
- Peter Cooper submits: How interesting that Jim Cramer chose the end of last week to wage war against short ETFs just a day before investors filed a class action against the financial short fund SKF. You just know this has to be a signal to buy the offending...
- External links 2009-09-27
- Gold Not Yet on Gulf Cooperation Council Single Currency Agenda
- Peter Cooper submits: Gulf leaders meet tomorrow in Riyadh to choose the location of a new Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] central bank that will pilot the creation of a single currency for the oil states of the Middle East, but it is not clear whether a role for gold...
- External links 2009-05-05
- Silver: The New Magic Bullet for Investors?
- Peter Cooper submits: Many investors have their eye and money on gold as the asset class to watch in the near future as global money printing has its inevitable effect on inflation, crashing bonds and hiking interest rates. In this environment, gold will soar as a money of almost...
- External links 2009-05-04
- Gold Up Sharply as the Bear Market Rally Falters
- Peter Cooper submits: Gold finished the week up 5.1 per cent at $913 while silver jumped 8.4 per cent to $12.90 as precious metals became a safe haven from the faltering six-week old bear market rally. This left gold prices at their highest levels in three weeks but fell...
- External links 2009-04-24
- Gold Set for Huge Rally
- Peter Cooper submits: The gold price is poised to break through $1,000 an ounce this week and could reach $1,500 before a price consolidation. On Monday gold and silver closed higher while global stock markets fell as the five-week rally ended. This is an important trend reversal and marks...
- External links 2009-04-21
- The IMF Sees No Green Shoots of Recovery
- Peter Cooper submits: The International Monetary Fund is going to warn that the recession is likely to be ‘unusually long and severe, and the recovery sluggish’ in its next World Economic Outlook, reveals the Daily Telegraph. This does not dovetail with the ‘green shoots of recovery’ noted by President...
- External links 2009-04-19
- China's Buying Spree
- Peter Cooper submits: The best client for capitalism’s investment bankers must be the People’s Republic of China these days. China is on a buying spree, snapping up global assets at depressed prices paid from its foreign currency reserves that are increasingly at risk from dollar devaluation. It makes good...
- External links 2009-04-14
- Do Goldman's Earnings Signal Top of Sucker's Rally?
- Peter Cooper submits: When China made its $3 billion investment in Blackstone Group this just had to mark the top of the private equity bubble. It did. Likewise Goldman Sachs GS raising money from shareholders off the back of the best Wall Street rally since 1933 ought to invite...
- External links 2009-04-14
- Too Early to Buy British Housing
- Peter Cooper submits: Property prices are still falling in the UK, but a combination of lower interest rates and a devalued pound is attracting expatriates to buy back home. It is still far too early, the best bargains are to come, and those buying now risk considerable capital loss....
- External links 2009-04-13
- Will Silver Start to Outperform Gold?
- Peter Cooper submits: Precious metal fans face a conundrum in choosing to buy silver rather than gold: silver prices are more volatile but have always outperformed gold prices in previous financial crises. So you might sleep better as an investor in gold but ultimately lose out to...
- External links 2009-04-09
- George Soros, GM and the next Lehman Brothers
- Peter Cooper submits: The world’s most famous hedge fund manager, George Soros, says the four week rally in U.S .stocks is just a bear market rally, and warns that the financial crisis is like nothing seen before in our lifetimes. You have to wonder, then, what will be the...
- External links 2009-04-07
- Oil Price Outlook Not Good: Recovery Takes Time
- Peter Cooper submits: The oil price jumped up a little last week on hopes that the G20 summit’s $5 billion reflationary support might encourage an early economic recovery and higher inflation. However, the unprecedented slide into a global economic contraction on a scale not seen for 70 years ought...
- External links 2009-04-07
- Is the U.S. Economy More Sound than It Was in the 30s?
- Peter Cooper submits: Economic commentators are quick to point out that the misery of the global economic crisis will be less in the 21st century than in the 1930s because wealth in advanced economies is more evenly spread and the absolute level higher. That may be true. But it...
- External links 2009-04-06
- How to Hold Gold
- Peter Cooper submits: Bernie Madoff’s hedge fund operation turned out to be a $65 billion fraud, and while the current boom in interest in precious metals might not produce a scam on that scale investors from the Middle East should take care. The most important thing in any investment...
- External links 2009-05-12
- Nasdaq Dubai to Corner Huge Middle East Derivatives Market
- Peter Cooper submits: Amid the doom-and-gloom of global stock markets, the Nasdaq NDAQ Dubai is quietly laying the ground for a major regional coup. It intends to dominate regional derivatives trading in future years. In other parts of the world derivative trading volumes are roughly equal to the trading...
- External links 2009-05-14
- Gold Above $1,000: Indicative of an Imminent Market Fall?
- Peter Cooper submits: Gold prices sprinted past the $1,000 an ounce mark this morning, and silver climbed even faster to approach $17. But this might also be taken as a warning that investors are about to shift out of stocks which are looking very overbought. Shares have enjoyed...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Dull Outlook for Gold and Silver as Markets Correct
- Peter Cooper submits: With gold apparently making another attempt to reach $1,000 an ounce this might seem an odd moment to reflect on the broader outlook for financial markets and what that means for gold and silver. But if you accept that financial markets are...
- External links 2009-09-03
- Short ETFs Jump, Confirming the Coming Market Correction
- Peter Cooper submits: The US stock market appeared to take a decisive change of direction last night with the S&P closing under 1,000 points and the Nasdaq under 2,000. Short ETFs jumped, particularly the leveraged variety. But tonight will be eagerly watched by the shorts for confirmation of a...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Gold and Silver: The Only Attractive Investment Option
- Peter Cooper submits: With the S&P up 46 percent from its March low, a typical 50 percent retracement is almost complete ready for the next plunge lower in this bear market. Unless you are a born-again-bull or have shut yourself in a cupboard for the past two years, I...
- External links 2009-08-02
- Why UK Housing Is Still Over-Valued
- Peter Cooper submits: Why is it that UK house prices have remained so expensive despite the gloom-and-doom circling the British economy about debt levels and rising unemployment? Two historic factors are usually cited: a relative shortage of property in the UK due to under building for a generation; and...
- External links 2009-07-19
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