September 27, 2010 · 5 comments
in ADRs, Africa, BRIC, agriculture, commodities, diversification, emerging markets, foreign investment, frontier markets, international stock market, market trends, mining
Remember, Africa’s not a country, it’s a continent. So you can’t directly compare it to “investing in Brazil” or Russia or some other emerging market.
But recent reporting has revealed that some managers are looking past the traditional emerging markets anyway – citing the lack of high-yield opportunies – and have turned their attention to the [...]
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September 25, 2010 · 3 comments
in US economy, bubble, capitalism, collapse, entertainment, films, market reports, money lessons, money mistakes, recession
Gordon Gekko turns from bull*hitter to born-again permabear and back again in Oliver Stone’s latest Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), a film with as many mixed messages as the S&P over the past year.
The plot of the entire film is driven by the ups and downs of the market – a mix of unpredictable [...]
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