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China’s On The Playing Field
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…
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In Defense of Hedge Funds
IT’S BOTH AMAZING AND a little bit bizarre that the same mainstream media that told folks to stick it out for the long haul while the market melted in 2000 and 2001 are now writing smear pieces about hedge funds simply because they’re not minting money this year. Indeed, we’re now in the golden age…
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The Future of the Dollar
By Clyde Harrison – CHICAGO (ResourceInvestor.com) — Leo Malamed is known as the Father of the derivatives market. I started in the investment business in 1968, so I was around when the baby was born. In 1968, the Mercantile Exchange wasn’t well known as they only traded eggs and pork bellies. The Exchange being made…
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Striking out inflation
Dick Fisher is the spanking new president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a voting member of the Fed’s open market committee policy arm. A terribly bright guy, he is somebody who reads the research memos and looks at the data. He may be a Democrat — he served as deputy trade representative…
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Which REITs Rule the Range?
So far in 2005, real estate investment trusts (REITs) — entities that manage portfolios of real property — have generally seen firming fundamentals in all property types, from office buildings and shopping malls to apartments and hotels. And those favorable conditions appear to have been noticed by investors: This year through May, the total return…
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First currency ETF filed
Rydex Investments has filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first currency exchange-traded fund that would provide exposure to the euro. Called the Euro Currency Trust, if approved the fund would trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FXE,” according to a Tuesday filing. The Bank of New…
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Real return bonds in spotlight
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…
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A question of offshore ins and outs
Are some South African investors developing an inverse relationship with offshore markets? Could some of us be subject to a strange, contrarian compulsion to get into markets just as the smart money gets out? Or perhaps we ring the changes by coming onshore just as the smart money goes off? The questions are prompted by…
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Gulf Arabs Bet Theme Park, Cargo Firm Will Temper Next Oil Bust
Persian Gulf monarchies, flush with record oil revenue, are betting that a $7.5 billion theme park with an indoor ski slope, a $1.2 billion power grid and a $1.2 billion cargo shipper will shield them from the next energy bust. Gulf investors have announced $8 billion of overseas acquisitions in the past 18 months, including…
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