Credit Analysis And Research Files Draft Prospect For IPO

Credit Analysis And Research Files Draft Prospect For IPO Ratings agency CARE (Credit Analysis and Research) has filed papers with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for an initial public offer (IPO) of 7.2 million shares. This being the first public offer of Equity Shares of our Company, there has been no formal market [...]

Investing in gold? MUST READ this!

Current Income Gold in any form does not give any current income. The only exception is the dividend option in the Gold ETFs. If held in the physical form, there is only outflow of cash for the maintenance of lockers. Capital Appreciation Historically, gold has been the perfect hedge for inflation. This is based on [...]

Silver Summit Report: Three Investment Approaches to the Volatile Metal

Silver Summit Report: Three Investment Approaches to the Volatile Metal Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report   (10/21/11) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/11358 For this special report from the Cambridge House  Silver Summit  in Spokane, Washington, The Gold Report  caught up with three silver investing experts: James Turk, chairman of GoldMoney; Andrew Kaip, vice president of Precious Metals Mining [...]

Global Markets Overview

E.U. Debts Talks Nearing Agreement European leaders are nearing agreement on a plan that would see the region’s banks raise around EUR100 billion in fresh capital, said three people familiar with marathon talks taking place Sunday. The bank recapitalization plan is the easiest piece of a three pronged bargain that the 17 euro-zone nations are [...]

Weekly Fundamentals

Financial markets were, and will be, mainly directed by sentiment over the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone. Headlines regarding what will be delivered after the EU summit (now the key meeting will be on October 26) were mixed and somehow confusing. Yet, no matter what plans will be announced after the meeting, it remains [...]

Playing The Uncertainty In Healthcare

Investors traditionally have regarded healthcare as a defensive sector that stands to benefit over the long term from favorable demographic trends. Not only does demand for healthcare products and services remain relatively resilient when the economy weakens – consumers tend to regard these purchases as non discretionary – but an aging US population and rising [...]

Banking Optimism? Options Say Investors Are Relieved Over Latest Bank Earnings

(Written by Alexander Crawford. Options data sourced from Schaeffer’s, all other data sourced from Finviz.) It appears that the severe bearishness on the US financial sector has subsided somewhat after the latest batch of earnings reports, with options indicating that investors’ worst fears were put to rest. The question now is, can they continue to [...]

Rich investors seek high realty returns

Products structured on real estate and promising over 20 per cent annual returns are gaining popularity among wealthy investors. These products, sold by wealth managers to their high networth individual clients, could have land or unfinished properties as underlying assets, with a buyback agreement after a certain number of years. With a minimum investment of [...]

Global Markets Overview

U.S. Markets U.S. stocks dropped into negative territory as investors digested the Federal Reserve’s gloomy assessment on the U.S. economy, adding to concerns about Apple’s surprise earnings disappointment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 46 points, or 0.4%, to 11530. The Standard Poor’s 500-stock  index lost 12 points, or 1%, to 1213, and the Nasdaq [...]

Finding Yield In U.S. Royalty Trusts: SandRidge Mississippian Trust I

High-yielding Canadian royalty trusts have been tremendous moneymakers over the years, though most converted to regular corporations because of an unfavorable change in the tax code. Despite the change in tax treatment, many the former Canadian trusts still offer high yields and significant growth potential. My colleague Roger Conrad covers the group in great detail [...]

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