All Posts Tagged With: "Wall Street"

Five Wall Street Whoppers And Why You Need To Know Them

If you’re like many investors, you are probably sitting on the sidelines right now, unsure of what to do. If you want to buy, you…

19Mar2009 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Main Street vs. Wall Street: And the Winner Is…

Last Sunday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke jumped into the Public Relations Politics foray when he appeared on 60 Minutes.

The political marketers were out in full…

18Mar2009 | Q1 Publishing | 0 comments | Continued

A Nation Named Desire

Classic film buffs will be familiar with the 1951 film – A Streetcar Named Desire – which starred Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh. My favorite scene…

12Jan2009 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Wall Street Holidays

This is an enjoyable time of the year. It’s when families gather together to share a wonderful holiday meal and exchange presents. After all, who…

22Dec2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Fund managers trot out “buy and hold” agenda

Why Wall Street can’t say “Sell!”

Why do Wall Street firms advise public investors to buy and hold, when that is not how they manage their…

5Nov2008 | Street Smart Report | Comments Off | Continued

Frank Holmes: “When Inflation Erupts, Gold Will Take Off”

The Gold Report

Expect short-term hesitancy in the upward movement of the gold price until liquidity returns to the markets, says Frank Holmes, CEO and chief…

21Oct2008 | The Gold Report | Comments Off | Continued

You Don’t Need To Run From This Market… Just Head Towards Healthcare, The Flame-Resistant Sector

Rest assured… my Smart Profits Report colleagues and I are fully aware that this is one scary investment climate right now.

With more than 100 years of…

3Oct2008 | Smart Profits Report | Comments Off | Continued

Did Wall Street’s “Secialists” Save Us from a 1,300-Point Decline on Monday?

The 777.68-point nosedive in the Dow Jones Industrial Averageon Monday was the single-biggest point drop ever, eradicating $1.2 trillion in shareholder wealth, and leaving mainstream…

3Oct2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued

Bailouts, Politics, & Wall Street

While politicians played politics, markets moved. Money raced out of stocks ($800 billion in equity was wiped out on the S&P alone today) and commodities…

30Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | Continued

Inside Wall Street: Why Hocus-Pocus Accounting Will Perpetuate the Capital Markets Credit Crisis

I once asked my friend – world-famous magician Lance Burton – if he could show me how he did a particular trick.

“Can you keep a…

10Sep2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued

Commodity Trading

It’s a Wild World

Well another week of wild trading has left many on Wall Street bruised, battered and not sure what to think. Is the oil…

22Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | Comments Off | Continued

Global Investing Roundups

Oil Over $143; GM Falls to 54-year Low; Starbucks Closes 600 Stores; Nikkei Post 10th Straight Loss; United Health Lands in the Emergency Ward; 900…

3Jul2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued

The Limited Shelf Life of Dollar Fruit

Today, we’ll keep it short and sweet.

The Dow managed only a piddling 32-point rise yesterday; still no recovery from last week’s big losses.

Oil rose another…

3Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | Comments Off | Continued

The Fraud of the Great Moderation

The beat goes on – one sector gets pumped up…and then it gets whacked.

Jim Cramer says he’s never seen anything like it…

Not the crash of Drexel…

25Jun2008 | Daily Reckoning | Comments Off | Continued

Election 2008: The Achilles’ Heel of Obamanomics

Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, recently told The Wall Street Journal that he intended to lift the United States out of recession through a burst of government…

19Jun2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued

Buyer Beware: Why You Don’t Want to Buy What Wall Street Banks Are Selling

Imagine that you’re the investment director for one of the new sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). A very important guy – you get to invest several hundred…

18Jun2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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