Posted by Jeflin on September 11, 2008
On Monday, we had a fantastic stock market rally after the US Treasury engineered a takeover of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Regardless of it being the costliest bailout in US financial history, investors’ confidence were restored… for a while.
Suckers, er, investors rushed into the stock market again, picking up oversold stocks as they anticipated a sustained rally, like what happened in March this year, when the US government arranged the Bear Stearns bailout. Read the full article here.
Posted in Banking, Business, Currency, Economy, Oil, Stocks, gold | Tagged: bear market, Fannie Mae, fear, Freddie Mac, investment, investors, stock market, Stocks, Treasury | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Jeflin on July 6, 2008
With inflation spiraling out of control, purchasing gold for your portfolio sounds like a no-brainer but sometimes when investments become too simple, a lot of people hesitate to act.
Major indexes experienced double-digit declines and investors took flight, this is the story of US stock market in the first half of 2008.
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Posted in Banking, Currency, Economy, Inflation, Oil | Tagged: bear market, Dow Jones, gold, Inflation, investments, investors, Oil, portfolio | 4 Comments »
Posted by Jeflin on May 28, 2008
In the last bull market, some financial analysts and economists debunked the existence of traditional business cycles.
The basic assumption was that the global economy is spurred by so many positive drivers that a steady, non-inflationary growth path is easily achievable.
Read the full article here.
Posted in Economy, Oil, Properties | Tagged: bear market, bull market, business cycles, commodities, depression, Economy, growth, real estate, recession | Leave a Comment »
