All Posts Tagged With: "Stock Markets"

Worst Hedge Fund Performance in Over 20 Years

The bear market has taken its toll on hedge funds so far this year. In the first half of ‘08 average hedge fund performance was a negative .75%. This from Bloomberg:

Wall Street Cheerleaders Already Counting Post-Bear Profits

In a piece entitled, “Wall Street: Three cheers for the bear”, CNNMoney.com looks on the bright-side of the bear…

How 50 Gave You a ‘5 in 5′

Investing in stock markets in a growing economy like India will generally give you better long term returns than investing in bank accounts. The logic is that, when an economy is growing, it means that the various businesses that make up the entire economy are - in total - growing.

Frontier Markets

With the market the way it is today, you can’t help but look for an investment, any investment, that might react differently than everything else. These kind of investments are “non-correlated” because they move independently of the overall market. But they can be tricky to locate, and even harder to trust.

The Stock Market Sectors You Should Sell Out of Right Now

Why inflation is bad news for the high street. You’d expect the slump in the housing market to take its toll on the high street. And indeed it has.

Chinese Share Panic Gives Us Once in a Lifetime Opportunity

Thanks to panicky speculators there is a last chance to buy CHINA… at a huge discount!

Bill Gates Buys Stake In Carpetright

When Philip Harris, now Lord / Baron Harris of Peckham, set up his first Carpetright on the Manor road, Canning town in 1988 he can’t have imagined it would all come to this.

Deviant Aspirations

High priests have ways to keep a good gig to themselves … magic rites, forbidden knowledge, and secret terms. It doesn’t matter whether they are psychiatrists, witch doctors or investment analysts. In our field—investments—we’ve been considering the secrets of volatility.

Peeking Behind the Curtain With Cash McDash

I was having a few beers with an old Agora colleague last week, someone outside of Taipan, and the subject of the Taipan Daily e-letter came up. Is that Cash McDash guy for real?” he asked me. I was taken aback by the question. “Of course he’s real”, I told him.

The World’s Worst Performing Stock Market

Let me tell you about a country that is in the midst of an economic boom.

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