Macroeconomics
Nov 6th, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Featured, International, Macroeconomics
With this morning's news of unemployment reaching 10.2% — the highest it's been in 26 years — prospects for many U.S. investments look bleak.
But you’re not out of luck just yet…
Many countries around the world will be able to steer around this extended recession. Some are even in prime position ...
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Tags: Brazil
Posted in Commodities, Featured, International, Macroeconomics |
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Oct 27th, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured, Macroeconomics
Every time you pay your electricity or gas bill, someone just like you is taking a cut. It’s not just executives at your local electric company that benefit from your power usage.
Regular investors can actually take a cut of every single bill payment you and your neighbors make. Today, we’ll ...
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Tags: utilities
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Featured, Macroeconomics |
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Oct 9th, 2009 |
By Jonas Elmerraji |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Macroeconomics
Precious metals have proven themselves as a phenomenal investment when stocks are getting hit the hardest. As a result, investors have been grabbing up shares of gold stocks -– and the metal itself -– an amazing rate. But despite the success of the goldbugs, 99% of investors are overlooking the ...
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Tags: ETF, silver
Posted in Commodities, Featured, Macroeconomics |
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Oct 8th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
The pundits on CNBC and the nightly news are dead wrong about the economic recovery. And as Wall Street’s pros praise the economic strides they’re seeing, the market’s real fundamentals keep getting worse, while more and more regular investors are falling into the trap.
Here’s why the only way to make ...
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Tags: recovery, short selling
Posted in Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics |
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Oct 7th, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Macroeconomics
The global economy is in a lull right now. Some expect a recovery sooner, rather than later. Others, like us, think that we could see a second downturn. Either way, there’s one investment you need to own right now: silver.
Silver is the most flexible metal on earth. We’re not talking ...
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Tags: silver
Posted in Commodities, Featured, Macroeconomics |
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Oct 6th, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
As I write, the sun is just peeking over the horizon. It is dawn in Dubai. Out my hotel window, I can see two buildings with cranes over them and in the distance another building in scaffolding. For a city that was once booming and turned bust -- as with ...
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Tags: Emerging Markets, Infrastructure
Posted in Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics |
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Sep 30th, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Some of Wall Street’s most prominent bears are turning bullish right now. But that doesn’t mean that your small-cap portfolio is safe. Here’s why these brilliant minds think that we’re back on the path to recovery -- and why they’re wrong.
I was in Manhattan last week attending Grant’s Fall Investment ...
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Tags: GDP, recovery
Posted in Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics |
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Sep 23rd, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured, Macroeconomics
The past 18 months have taken a serious toll on normal supply and demand in many industries. But no industry was impacted more than energy…
Oil peaked at $147 per barrel in July 2008 — right before the house of cards came crashing down on the global economy. Once banks started ...
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Tags: coal, Natural Gas
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Featured, Macroeconomics |
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Sep 3rd, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Inflation can do tricky things to markets. It creates distortions. In those distortions, an intrepid investor can find some big moneymaking ideas. I think we've got one opening up in oil and gas, and it is not without precedent in financial markets. In fact, it's starting to look a little ...
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Tags: inflation, oil, takeover
Posted in Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics |
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Aug 26th, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, International, Macroeconomics
It's become widely accepted when talking about emerging economies to focus on the so-called BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China. But there is a very important region that gets lost in that discussion.
And it’s a region that holds the key to growth opportunities that could eclipse the growth ...
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Tags: BRIC, MENA
Posted in Featured, International, Macroeconomics |
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