Video-o-rama: Let’s move beyond the “N� word While the stock market indices are floundering with multi-year lows, “nationalization� was the key word spooking investor sentiment during the past few days. Also on the video front, “hot-under-the-collar� discussions, featuring James Galbra...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (February 16 – 22, 2009) A perfect storm of a deepening global recession and banking woes last week battered equities and supported the safe havens of the US dollar, government bonds and gold bullion. A dismal corporate earnings outlook, fears...

Video-o-rama: Stocks between a rock and a hard place > Stock markets remain caught between the actions of central banks frantically trying to fend off a total economic meltdown on the one hand, and a worsening economic and corporate picture on the other. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Index ...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (February 9 – 15, 2009) “Words from the Wise” this week comes to you from my abode in a visibly depressed Europe, from where I am compiling this report as welcome relief from gloomy conversations with taxi drivers and cheerless mea...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2009) “Words from the Wise” this week comes to you in a shortened format as pressure from my “day job” precludes me from doing my customary commentary. However, a full dose of excerpts from interesting ...

Four-day weeks are notoriously volatile, and the past few days were no exception. But despite a daily dosage of grim economic news and a deterioration in the investment outlook, the headlines were captured by the inauguration of the US’s 44th president, Barack Obama. Commentators were in agreement...

Fears about the intensity of the global recession and renewed skepticism regarding the beleaguered financial sector fueled a flight to safety during the past holiday-shortened trading week. President Obama’s inauguration offered only a brief respite from the dreadful economic and earnings data and...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (January 12 – 18, 2009) Investor sentiment around the globe was negatively impacted during 2009’s second full week of trading as a barrage of bleak economic and corporate news offered more confirmation of a deepening recession, bringing ...

Video-o-rama: Gloomy news batters investor sentiment Risk appetite around the globe deteriorated over the past few days as an avalanche of negative economic and corporate news battered already fragile investor sentiment. A few of the more interesting video clips that attracted my attention are share...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (January 5 – 11, 2009) Global stock markets reversed course during the last three days of the first full trading week of 2009 as investors were confronted by dreadful economic data, escalating layoffs and a bleak earnings outlook. As investor ...