June 11, 2012
in 2012, 2013, ADRs, Africa, BRIC, China, Kenya, World Bank, agriculture, commodities, emerging markets, forecasts, foreign investment, frontier markets, international stock market, stock exchanges, stock picks
The year is 2012 and it is time for you to get some Kenya in your portfolio. Kenya has one of the most rapidly-growing GDPs.
Over the weekend the World Bank sent out a tweet about Kenya’s “tipping point” – by 2020, Kenya will be a full-fledged middle-class country. Since 2001, many gains have been made [...]
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December 27, 2010
in 2010, December, NASDAQ, NYSE, TSX, banks, holidays, market reports, news and updates, special dates, stock exchanges
Stock markets reopen this year on a Wednesday. Whenever Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fall on Friday and Saturday or Sunday, the usual holidays are already taken up by the weekend. This means that many Federal institutions and businesses will declare an extra two days of holiday right after the weekend.
These extra holidays have occurred in [...]
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Tomorrow (Monday) is a holiday of sorts in both Canada and the U.S. In Canada, it’s Thanksgiving, and the TSX will not be open for trading.
In the U.S., it’s Columbus Day (to celebrate the “discovery” of the “New” World by Italian Christopher Columbus). But American stock exchanges (NASDAQ, NYSE) will be open as normal for [...]
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July 13, 2010 · 5 comments
in George Soros, bailout, charity, economics, gifts, philanthropy, stock exchanges, terminology, wealth, wealth transfer
U.S. public discourse especially, particularly during election seasons, as we saw in the primaries leading up to Obama’s election, makes a lot of fuss with the phrase “the redistribution of wealth.”
Those using the phrase seem to intend it to refer to some type of “Robin Hood” scenario, where some guy steals from the rich in order [...]
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May 7, 2010 · 4 comments
in Greece, S&P 500, S&P/TSX, debt, europe, exchange rates, foreign investment, forex, government, international economy, international stock market, legislation, market crash, market reports, market trends, news and updates, risk, stock exchanges, world order
Is Greece triggering the double-dip? Yesterday’s several-hundred point dive in the stock markets globally was said to be the result of a “fat finger” typo – someone, a really big trader (eg., Citibank), typed in 15 “billion” of futures contracts instead of 15 “million” somewhere.
And is this the new kamikaze capitalism – where you don’t [...]
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February 1, 2010 · 6 comments
in 2010, February, S&P 500, international stock market, investing, market reports, market trends, seasonal investing, stock exchanges, stocks
Predicting where the stock market will go in February might be a lesson in futility more than futurity, but that doesn’t mean we can’t pay close attention to what the analysts are looking out for – and other key pieces of market news such as earnings, announcements from the Fed, levels of consumer credit card [...]
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January 11, 2010 · 7 comments
in BRIC, China, G20, OPEC, capitalism, commodities, currencies, emerging markets, environment, future, international economy, investing (general), market trends, stock exchanges, sustainability, theories, wealth transfer, wealthbuilding, world order
Have you ever thought about how investing will change over the next century? What will the investment landscape look like in 2110, or even in 2080?
I have to admit, I don’t think I’ve ever thought about this specific question before. But it occurred to me when I heard an analyst from London talking about what [...]
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