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Category: Stocks and Bonds

  • Five foreigners that figure to win

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    Five foreigners – These international stocks have an edge over U.S. rivals LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Just like that old Irving Berlin tune, what the savvy investor may find these days is that anything a U.S company can do, an international rival can do — sometimes better. Investing in European stocks year-to-date would have certainly…

  • China’s On The Playing Field

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    NEW YORK – Look-out global playing field. Here comes China to play. Before we can turn around, suddenly China, or at least Chinese companies–and is there a real difference?–may wind up owning some large swaths of corporate America. A Chinese company, Lenovo, bought IBM’s entire PC business last month. Now, Chinese companies may be in…

  • Real return bonds in spotlight

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    Real return bonds — a security that offers holders inflation protection for both the interest and principal components — is the newest fixed income asset class to make its way into a structured product. Connor, Clark & Lunn Capital Markets Inc. — a unit of Vancouver-headquartered Connor Clark & Lunn Financial Group — is behind…

  • Chinese VC investing plummets

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    Venture capital investment in China (Chinese VC) plunged by 43% to $165 million in first-quarter 2005, hit by legal uncertainties that a foreign exchange regulation created, according to a survey by Beijing-based consulting firm Zero2IPO Ltd. A total of 28 VC investors sank $165 million into 35 Chinese companies in the first quarter, of which…

  • Oversold stocks now make investing your money easier

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    At last! The word oversold – market jargon for “too cheap” – is starting to reappear in analysts’ recommendations. This suggests investors are readjusting to the hefty share price falls of the past two months, and looking for bargains. We are also getting buy recommendations. Among stocks to score these last week were the ANZ…

  • Has Your Investment Portfolio Got ‘Alpha’?

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    NEW YORK – Frank Holmes, chairman, chief executive and chief investment officer of money management firm US Global Investors [GROW], has been on a hot streak, but isn’t afraid to share some of his success secrets with retail investors. With some of America’s top performing mutual funds under the care of his firm, Holmes revealed…

  • Playing With Fire

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    Forget the new zillionaires. There are many good reasons to resist playing with fire in the China craze. When the ducks are quacking, the saying goes, Wall Street feeds them, and right now we ducks are quacking for a steady diet of China-related investment opportunities. If China’s economic miracle ends the way many do (e.g.,…

  • Time for you to diversify

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    Asset managers warn against expecting unit trust funds that delivered outstanding performance in previous quarters to continue producing inflation-beating returns in future. Performance results across the different unit trust categories are again generally good this quarter, and there are even positive returns among offshore funds that had been showing losses for many a quarter. Over…

  • Platinum 20-Bagger Pitches to The Yankees

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    NEW YORK – There are not too many twenty-baggers to go around in any sort of market, but one of them is preparing to list on the American Stock Exchange to better align itself with its major stockholders. London listed Southern African Resources [AIM:SFU] is undergoing a rebranding that will, without being mutually exclusive, broaden…