European Leaders Getting Their Act Together: Too Little Too Late?

(Written by Rebecca Lipman. List compiled by Eben Esterhuizen, CFA) October has been a comparatively upbeat month for the US stock market after the Labor Department released better-than-expected employment data and hopes rose on suspicions the European Union is getting its act together – but has anything really changed? Hard to say. Kapitall reported yesterday that although recent employment [...]

Ross Beaty: Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickel and Alternative Energy for Fun and Profit

Ross Beaty: Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickel and Alternative Energy for Fun and Profit Source: Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report   (10/12/11) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/11254 Legendary mining entrepreneur Ross Beaty is an optimist. He likes the opportunities present in both bear and bull markets. In this exclusive interview with  The Gold Report  at the  Casey [...]

Big Banks Brace for a Bad Earnings Season

(Written by Alexander Crawford, list compiled by Eben Esterhuizen, CFA. Short data sourced from Yahoo! Finance, all other data sourced from Finviz.) Earnings season for the third quarter kicks off this week, and with it many investors eagerly await to hear about the performance of their favorite companies. Unfortunately, not many analysts are looking to [...]

Reversal Coming? Sophisticated Investors Think These Rallies Are Running Out of Steam

(Written by Alexander Crawford, list compiled by Eben Esterhuizen, CFA. Institutional data sourced from Fidelity, short data sourced from Yahoo! Finance, moving average data sourced from Finviz.) For a look at what the markets are expected to do next, one of the best sources for insight is what sophisticated investors are doing. Institutional investors, like [...]

Agri Stocks: Jim Rodgers is Bullish on Agriculture

(List compiled by Eben Esterhuizen, CFA) Let’s talk about Jim Rodgers. He became a long term bull on commodities after a life changing trip through Asia that taught him about scarcity in a growing world. He’s been preaching his views for years, and he’s recently become focused on agricultural sector stocks. Business Insider aptly pulled the [...]

Investment guide: Good for retail, risk for HNIs

Investors, especially high networth individuals, would be glad that the market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India [ Images ], is taking some firm steps towards ensuring better compliance in case of alternate investments. For retail investors, the rise in the entry barrier — up to Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) from [...]

Anand Sharma calls for greater US investment

Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma on Tuesday urged greater US investment in India [ Images ], saying his country was the best and safest place for investments. Sharma was speaking at the ‘US-Indian Economic Opportunities and Synergy Summit’ jointly organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and The Executives’ [...]

Why US should invest in India’s power sector

“Per capita consumption of electricity has grown from 600 kwh to 785 kwh in a span of five years,” Ficci senior vice-president R V Kanoria told reporters. However, while “Infrastructure has not grown, India has grown,” Kanoria added. Shinde said while the present installed generation capacity in India is more than 1,81,000 MW, over 80,000 [...]

’11th Plan infra investment may be 10% short’

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia [ Images ] said on Thursday investment in infrastructure during 11th Plan period (2007-12) is likely to be 10 per cent shot of the $500-billion target. “In the 11th Plan (2007-2012), we think our investments will probably be a little short of $500 billion. I would not be [...]

Foreign investors paint gloomy India picture

Ashish Rukhaiyar in Mumbai If the latest strategy reports of some leading foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are anything to go by, then the outlook for the Indian equity market appears bleak. This is, despite section of experts pitching for the current attractive valuations. While Credit Suisse is of the view that India’s global linkages are [...]

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