After watching their portfolios take devastating blows in 2008, many investors hoped that a new year would bring a reversal of fortune and a recovery of lost assets.
After the first two months of the year tested resolve, things finally took a turn for the better in March, and a long climb upwards [...]
Earlier this month, China’s Economic Information Daily published remarks by a senior Chinese official indicating that Dubai’s debt crisis could be a good opportunity for China to purchase gold and oil assets.
Ji Xiaonan (Chairman of the Supervisory Committee overseeing large state-owned enterprises) was quoted as saying that the Dubai debt [...]
As ETFs have grown from a closet industry to a mainstream investing option, funds offering exposure to nearly every corner of the globe have popped up.
But the exposure offered by international ETFs has historically been very broad in nature. Whereas U.S. investors have long had access to funds targeting various sectors [...]
Gold fell for the first time during last week, off 4% on Friday to $1,162.40 an ounce, the biggest drop since Dec. 1, 2008 after the new U.S. jobs data showed unexpected strength.
The Dollar rallied against rival currencies while traders reversed the “Sell Dollar/Buy Gold” strategy. (Fig. 1, click to [...]
2010 is fast approaching. I have had conversations with colleagues..and the issue that was brought up so many times was 2007-2009 just a fluke or the beginning of something more serious.
As usual… I told them to their discern I do not know the future. However in all reality… if we ran our [...]
Most markets moved higher in the last week but still lost some upward momentum. The big news, of course, was the request by state-owned Dubai World to renegotiate some of its debt payments.
Coming as it did during a thin holiday market – which may not have been a coincidence – the story sparked a [...]
Back in the heady days of 2006 some 30,000 cranes, roughly a quarter of total global capacity, were busy whirring away in Dubai.
Today most of these devices have either left to find service in other parts of the globe, or lie silent, unused and unloved. In what is only the latest sign [...]
Today financial markets all over the world dropped by 2-3 percent. That is quite a big, taking into account that major financial and economic news during the past few weeks has been quite good. All major investors, economists and decision takers seemed to agree that we were leaving the recession caused by [...]
With the Copenhagen Climate summit looming before us, we thought that this short video on the impact of developed nations decision making has on emerging markets economies is worth 5 minutes of your time.
Cleantech Financier calls current carbon treaty system “aparthied” from Ann Danylkiw on Vimeo.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index has notched up a massive 72.3% gain for the year to date, and an even more impressive 101.4% since the March 9th lows.
Although emerging markets were the clear leaders during the initial months of the recovery, the MSCI World Index has subsequently done some catching up but [...]