Nowhere Left for Investors to Hide – Prepare for Impoverishment
(Finance)
Following the enduring boom times experienced in the closing decade of the 20th century, current business expectations in the western world appear to be confronted with considerable obstacles, not least [...]
Read More- Posted on 15th Jun 2010
by Jack Mitchell - 6 comments
Bamboo Curtain
(Finance)
There is, by and large, a good deal of justified talk these days about conflicts of interest. Generally, people don’t like it when it appears that an individual or company [...]
Read More- Posted on 19th Apr 2010
by David Gleason - 0 comments
Howzit, My China?!
(Economics)
Picture a train. Up front we have our Big Boy locomotive, representing the infallible US. Unbeknownst to the economic convoy that follows, our loco enters a dark tunnel of financial [...]
Read More- Posted on 24th Mar 2010
by Derrick Carolin - 1 comments
A Sobering Thought
(Finance)
The story below is an extract from an email currently doing the rounds - it attempts to simplify the recent economic crisis by equating the finance world to a local bar. Something we [...]
Read More- Posted on 22nd Mar 2010
by Derrick Carolin - 1 comments
Obama’s Financial Puppet Show
(Finance)
The economic debate rages on – how fine is that line that a national government should be permitted to walk between facilitation and intervention? Are policy makers justified in taking [...]
Read More- Posted on 22nd Mar 2010
by Derrick Carolin - 0 comments
The End of the Party
(Finance)
Steel is an essential element in any modern economy. In one in which a major infrastructural build programme is well under way it is impossible to underestimate the role of [...]
Read More- Posted on 16th Mar 2010
by David Gleason - 1 comments
New Broom Wanted
(Finance)
I am concerned about Murray & Roberts. Its latest interim result was frankly poor. Some analysts will say that was to be expected in the circumstances of a major retraction [...]
Read More- Posted on 8th Mar 2010
by David Gleason - 0 comments
SA Stock Market: What History Tells Us
(Finance)
There is an old stock market adage which I have found to be worthwhile remembering, which says: “THE STOCK MARKET WILL ALWAYS DO WHATEVER IT HAS TO….. BUT NEVER WHEN”!
My [...]
- Posted on 3rd Mar 2010
by Jack Mitchell - 0 comments
Gold Producers’ Currency Headache
(Finance)
The recent quarterly results from the major gold producers are all reasonably satisfactory with AngloGold Ashanti as the star performer. Its recovery over 2009 has been something of a local [...]
Read More- Posted on 1st Mar 2010
by David Gleason - 0 comments