Will $135 oil bring Wall Street crashing down next week? « Peter J. Cooper...

You have to wonder which shoe is going to drop first: the oil price or Wall Street? A sell-off in stocks last night might well be the start of a serious correction for US equities which look particularly...

HSBC says buy Gulf stocks as emerging markets fade « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

HSBC flew its Head of Global Emerging Markets Equity Strategy, Dr. John Lomax into Dubai this week for Wealth Management Seminar for its Premier customers. His message was that investing in emerging markets has become far more difficult but that the best opportunities are now...

Hold cash to beat the recession « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

The old investment adage that cash is king in a recession still rings true. Cash might indeed be the emperor in such times.

US economic problems not over, sell the ‘dead cat bounce’ « Peter J. Coo...

This is trader terminology for something that happens in a very bad downturn. Eventually things get so bad that they recover just a little, leading to flood of false optimism about the future, partly from traders...

Salmon Fishing Closed on West Coast of U.S.

Although the Alaskan and B.C. salmon stocks are faring slightly better than those further south, consumers in the United States and Canada should expect to be paying a lot more for salmon.So, if salmon is no...

UAE stocks look a great buy after Ramadan « Peterjcooper’s Weblog

Looking for a place to put your money this autumn? Step forward the lively UAE stock markets, still down after their 2006 crash.

Asian states feel rice pinch

The cost of rice has reached an all-time high, and Asian contries are struggling to keep up."The price of the staple crop has risen by as much as 70% during the last year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture...

An Insight On Stock Market Investment

Investing in the stock market is not for the faint of heart because of its volatile nature, it can go up where you can make money but it can also go down where you can lose money. Depending on what stocks you buy, over the long term, the stock market will probably make better...

Britain's sushi craving puts Japan's fish stocks under strain

The British love their sushi. They love it so much that their mass consumption of raw fish, especially convenient take-out 'supermarket sushi' may be straining worldwide fish stocks, and could result in the...

Lou Dobbs Swears E.T. Is Not An Illegal Alien

"E.T. please phone home… and remember to “press one for English”. ""According to various reports, several CNN employees say Dobbs is a volatile, ruthless screamer.  They even report that Dobbs demanded a short producer stand on a chair so he could yell at him."

Warren Buffett speaks

Buffett is quick to put responsibility onto those who should be accountable but he says..."Buffett wrote: “We also were very lucky in 2007, the second year in a row free of major insured catastrophes.“That...

Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Facebook: The Epic Battle of 'Long-Tail Marketing'

In the world of online media marketing, 2007 will be remembered as a quantum evolution in "behavioral targeting" technology. Most recent and perhaps most important, Facebook opened up its marketing platform to developers and the widget was born as a cheap marketing and...

Technical Analysis Spotlight: Sara Lee Ticker Symbol SLE

After hitting our market psychology barometer reading of 31 on 2008-02-21, it’s fourth lowest since 1991, Sara Lee is a buy. Here’s why.The chart below shows these four dates marked A, B, C and D. All showed recent steep declines.After these declines, prices rebounded...

Technical Analysis Spotlight: Dell Ticker Symbol DELL

The world’s largest PC-maker usually confounds its critics, skeptics and competitors. This is why Dell is a buy.The trend-line shown in the chart below clearly signals the support at current levels. Each time prices tested this support, Dell rebounded about 50% within six...

U.S. Markets Volatile After Another Steep Dive in Europe

"Wall Street endured another volatile day on Wednesday as stocks plunged at the opening bell, spent much of the session in negative territory, then erased a 326-point deficit in the afternoon. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Two Days of Market TurmoilGraphic Two Days of...

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