January 24, 2011 · 2 comments
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Readers have recently been asking where you can open a Chinese Yuan savings account. As I wrote in a previous post, Chinese Yuan savings accounts for Americans are available at the Bank of China (only in New York and Los Angeles so far).
In that previous post, I outlined the basic steps you need to know [...]
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November 9, 2010
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And none of them are likely to happen in any conceivable near-term time frame.
Gold is sitting pretty now above $1400/oz following the World Bank’s suggestion of a return to the gold standard – and it’s inevitably already drawing out commentators from the woodwork who want to talk about how overvalued gold is and the fact [...]
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October 11, 2010 · 4 comments
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How high gold can go in October and November now that gold prices have risen for 12 out of the past 14 days can be determined by evaluating how parabolic the gold chart looks but must be weighed against the fact that central banks have been continuously purchasing gold for reserves, and Barrick CEO Aaron [...]
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October 1, 2010
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Gold prices broke out past the $1300/oz mark later in September, just as I predicted in my post on gold prices in August. It didn’t take much market turmoil or negative market news to push gold higher – just the promise of QE lite in November and the prospect that the midterm elections will remain [...]
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August 19, 2010 · 3 comments
in DIY, bills, bonds, business, careers, cashflow, debt, distributions, diversification, dividends, earnings, employment income, financial planning, hedging, income, investing (general), lifehack, money management, passive income, paycheck, real estate, risk, self-employed, side income, wealth protection, wealthbuilding
It’s bad enough to initially depend on just one source of income, but it’s even worse to not invest it or diversify it such that you protect it over time. In other words, there is more than one way to diversify your income.
(1) You can diversify your sources of income so that you have, say, [...]
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May 31, 2010 · 2 comments
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Many investors are familiar with the phrase “sell in May and go away.” This has certainly been true in May 2010: Greece debt problems, the sinking Euro, the downgrade of Spain’s credit rating and the BP oil spill debacle have taken their toll on markets worldwide. Oh, and then there was the mysterious May 6th [...]
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March 17, 2010
in CAD, Canadian, DJIA, S&P 500, currencies, diversification, dividends, financial planning, foreign investment, hedging, market timing, risk, stocks, wealth protection
Now that the loonie is flying high again, many Canadians are considering US expenditures, which become cheaper as the loonie moves higher. Some of these purchases might be in the form of US stocks through your online brokerage.
But before you hit the trigger and jump on a position in Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) [...]
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