Is the Franklin Templeton MENA Fund a buy? « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

" Personally I would be a buyer of this fund after this correction, and not before. For any downward correction in the oil price will only be temporary as the supply and demand fundamentals will not be changed, and the MENA region, or at least the oil producers, really does...

Investing the Templeton Way: what is he backing now? « Peter J. Cooper’s W...

"Sir John Templeton is a remarkable billionaire investor, and even at 95 years old he is still making calls that put the brightest young hedge fund managers to shame. But based on his brilliant past record we can only hazard a guess at what this legendary investor is up to now. "

South African Cricket Team Safe after Gas Blast

I haven't heard any conspiracy or plot rumors about this incident, but I'm sure they'll be forthcoming. "South Africa's cricket team was "safe and calm" after a gas blast in their hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Wednesday, Cricket South Africa spokesperson...

A Free-for-All on Science and Religion

"Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when a Nobelist in chemistry, Sir Harold Kroto, called for the John Templeton Foundation to...