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Keith Fitz-Gerald ’
Oct 9th, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Stock Market Investing
Two distinct groups of investors have emerged since the U.S. stock market rally began in early March. Initially overly cautious and smug in their desire to protect themselves, the first group of investors were convinced the rally was going to sputter and stall. It hasn’t, and 57% later these investors now believe they’re getting left behind, so they’re piling into the key indices in effort to make up lost ground.
Tags: Bmo, ETFs, index etf, Index Funds, Keith Fitz-Gerald, SPY, US stock market rally, VWELX
Posted in Stock Market Investing |
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Sep 10th, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Stock Market Investing
Back in mid-June, more than 75% of the investors responding to a CNNMoney poll said they were planning to buy stocks – many of them aggressively.
Tags: inflation, Keith Fitz-Gerald, LEHMQ, Stock Market
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Sep 4th, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Financial News, US Dollar & Forex Trading
Most Americans will view China’s effort to dethrone the U.S. dollar as the world’s main reserve currency as one of the biggest economic threats that this country will have to face.
Tags: Bailout, Banking System, Federal Reserve, Global Finance, Keith Fitz-Gerald, US dollar, Yuan
Posted in Financial News, US Dollar & Forex Trading |
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Aug 18th, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Emerging Markets, Featured
If you’re looking for the next “Big Oil” play, bet on Beijing. As we’ve been reporting for the past several years, China has been on a global commodities shopping spree, which includes locking up every source of oil that it can.
Tags: BP, CEO, CVX, Keith Fitz-Gerald, MRO, PBR, RDS.A, RDS.B, Russian Oil Companies, SHI, XOM
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Jul 23rd, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Emerging Markets, Featured
Individual investors who still hold any doubts about Mainland China’s future growth potential should take a long hard look at Airbus SAS, the Pan-European commercial airliner maker that is now building airplanes in that country.
Tags: Airline Stocks, BA, China investing, Keith Fitz-Gerald, SBMRY
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Jul 17th, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Featured, International Investing
China made headlines around the world this week when it revealed that its foreign reserves had eclipsed the $2 trillion market for the first time, rising by a record $178 billion in the second quarter – thanks to a flood of “hot money” that flowed into the world’s most promising economy.
Tags: China ETF, CYB, Foreign Investments, HBC, Keith Fitz-Gerald
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Jul 7th, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Emerging Markets, Featured
Just last week – for the first time in 60 years – Taiwan opened its doors to investments from Mainland China. The impact was almost immediate. On Friday, Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines Ltd. (NYSE ADR: ZNH) submitted the first bid under the new regulations and became the first mainland company to apply to invest in Taiwan.
Tags: Airline Stocks, AIRYY, BAC, CEA, CHL, EWT, GOOG, Keith Fitz-Gerald, LNVGY, SAR, Taiwan
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Jul 1st, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Politics & Economics
Billionaire investor George Soros thinks the worst of the global financial crisis is behind us. In a June 20 interview with Polish television, the Hungarian-born Soros acknowledged that this has been the most serious crisis he’s seen in his lifetime, but said, “Definitely, the worst is behind us.”
Tags: George Soros, Global Financial Crisis, Jim Rogers, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Retail Investor, Warren Buffett
Posted in Politics & Economics |
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Jun 30th, 2009 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Featured, International Investing
Mention Japan and many people think of Geisha, castles and samurai. Mention investing in Japan and the image of an impenetrable wall comes to mind. I’ve been extremely fortunate to have seen all of this firsthand – and not just once, but on a pretty consistent basis for the past two decades, when I’ve been here as a businessman, a resident, and – most recently – as a husband and a parent.
Tags: Chrysler, GMGMQ, Investing in Japan, Keith Fitz-Gerald, TM
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