Christopher Hancock

Christopher Hancock lives and breathes emerging markets. He travels extensively and utilizes his contacts across the globe to recommend the best international investments in the world. After working with Citigroup in Hong Kong on the challenges and opportunities associated with the forthcoming RBM flotation reform, Christopher left many of his friends behind and decided to return to the States to pursue a career in equity research. Special Report: Imagine Getting Rich as Ignored Stocks Soar- How you could turn $200 into $1.2 million!

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The World of Stuart and Hamlin

Jun 12th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: Commodities

The world of Round Hill consists of two distinct countries with two distinct economies separated by one gigantic ocean. The sun rises on the Independent Republic of Hamlin in the east and sets on the Democratic Nation of Stuart in the west. For more than 200 years, free trade, low ...read more

Tags: Stuart and Hamlin steel, world steel economy
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Trucking and the Absence of Cheap Oil

Apr 11th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: Commodities, Energy

For one moment, forget about stock markets as divine measures of prosperity. Focus on the lives of ordinary citizens. We read that 28 million Americans will subside on food stamps this year — the most since Congress enacted the program in the 1960s. A typical trip to the grocery store ...read more

Tags: Absence cheap oil, trucking and oil, Trucking cheap oil
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Watch Out for this Market

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: Macroeconomics

Surge, plunge, rocket or drop: What will the Dow do? The Fed injected $400 billion last week. It capped its cash infusion on Palm Sunday with a 25 basis point cut to the discount rate ordinarily charged on direct loans to banks, but now also extended to securities dealers. But $400 billion ...read more

Tags: American financial market, S&P 500
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As China Continues To Grow, They Watch For Inflation

Mar 7th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: International, Macroeconomics

A dozen or so gun-laden soldiers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) stood quietly among the customs agents at Lo Wu Station. The KCR East Rail, the commuter train that left Hong Kong at Tsim Sha Tsui 45 minutes prior, pulled in for its last stop. Shenzhen, once a remote ...read more

Tags: China inflation, Chinese inflation, the yuan dollar
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Keeping the Needs for the Basics Ahead of the Wants for the Apples

Feb 29th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: Investing Strategies

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave us a choice this week: A debilitating recession or destructive inflation. You decide. We vote for recession. Bernanke, however, opts for inflation. We shrug. So does Mr. Market. The Dow tumbles. Oil surges to a record $102.59. Gold jumps $15.50, to $970. Wheat, cotton, rice and ...read more

Tags: American consumer, buy apples market, Infrastructure
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The Stimulus Package and the Magic $170 Billion

Feb 19th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: Macroeconomics

“Taxation is a pivot upon which economies, countries, governments and empires rise and fall. It can mean the difference between war and peace, prosperity and ruin.” — Nathan Lewis President Bush proudly signed off on a $170 billion stimulus package last week. Congress willingly approved. The two peacefully joined hands for the ...read more

Tags: Stimulus package, stimulus plan
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As the U.S. Dollar Tanks, Investing Overseas Never Looked So Good

Feb 11th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: International, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics

Last Tuesday at approximately 10:35 p.m., 6-8 juveniles approached a man walking westbound on the north side of E. Madison here in Baltimore. One youngster displayed a knife and demanded money. Another pulled the victim’s wallet from his rear pocket. The victim, a Johns Hopkins student, grabbed the wallet from the ...read more

Tags: investing overseas, revolving U.S. debt
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Learning to be a Value Investor

Jan 25th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: Investing Strategies

Marty Whitman of the Third Avenue Value Fund is one of my favorite investors. With any luck, he’ll be one of my wife’s, as well. My wife, like Marty, loves to buy things cheap. And she’s not afraid to haggle. It’s not uncommon for me to sit on a mall bench ...read more

Tags: safety investing, value investing
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War, Debt, and Inflation from the Past to the Future

Jan 17th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: International, Macroeconomics

Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer Stefan Zweig witnessed first-hand the summer of 1914. “It was the war of an unsuspicious generation,” Zweig wrote, “and the greatest peril was the inexhaustible faith of nations in the single sided justice of their cause.” The proud Venetians surrendered their Austrian Crown, circulated in ...read more

Tags: Austria war debt, economic inflation
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Invest in China’s Version of the 1896 Dow

Jan 11th, 2008 | By Christopher Hancock | Category: Commodities, International

On May 26, 1896, Charles Dow, Wall Street Journal editor and co-founder of Dow Jones & Co. Inc., compiled an index to track the performance of the American stock markets. The original index included 12 of America’s most fundamental industrial stocks. America’s industrial revolution required the basic commodities and raw materials ...read more

Tags: China domestic oil market, China's oil market
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