Dollar Bear: The end of the consumer economy

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"The credit crunch will spread from mortgages to auto loans and to all forms of consumer lending. The days of Americans borrowing to consume are finally coming to a long over due end. Within a few years most will only be able to buy those goods they can afford to pay for with cash." — [...]

Financial Forecasts: Maybe they get it right this quarter

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"Inflation-adjusted U.S. GDP increased at an annualized rate of 4.9% during the third quarter. That, my friend, is about twice the growth rate of the current European economic "resurgence".  And it accounts for subprime crisis and housing collapse, which deducted over a percentage point from the numbers." — J. Christoph Amberger   by J. Christoph Amberger, TFN Baltimore [...]

International Investing: The Best Use For Your Failing Dollars

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  Today’s Financial News Research Report: The Best Use For Your Failing Dollars: Options Against This Overseas Telecom Stand to Gain 60%-100% When the Dollar Tumbles Another 6%   by Adam Lass, Market Analyst, WaveStrength Options Weekly November 29, 2007   Today’s Financial News feed provides an independent and practical perspective on the U.S. and global investment markets. [...]

New Personal Finance Video: How to profit from the falling dollar

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  "Don’t expect the dollar slide to stop anytime soon. What with fears of recession and a lack of available credit, one must assume that the government will continue to open the cash taps." — Adam Lass  Baltimore — (TFN): Adam Lass calls this investment "The Best Use for Your Falling Dollars". Since Washington is doing absolutely [...]

Resource Mining Stocks: BHP rebounds from Rio rebuff; WorleyParsons, Saudi Aramco deal may be close

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“We suspect that construction and infrastructure and engineering stocks are going to have a good 2008 with all this spending in the pipeline. And not just in Australia.” — Dan Denning  by Dan Denning, Daily Reckoning Australia and TFN Blogger’s Note: We saw this piece on the site of the Daily Reckoning Australia. If you don’t believe [...]

Dow Jones Industrial Index Rally: “We may yet end the year with a 5% gain.”

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“Today’s rally was an impressive event. Add in Tuesday’s gains and you’ve almost matched the gains from August 16th and 17th. But back in August, the market was sitting at this exact same tension point.” — Adam Lass by Adam Lass, TFN Baltimore — (TFN): The cavalry has ridden in – all the way from Adu Dhabi [...]

Dow Rally: Recent volatility points at further downward pressure

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“The Dow has just popped its nose above the critical resistance level at the 200-day moving average. Considering the tremendous amount of recent market volatility, major market averages will probably encounter downside pressure at this level.” — Bryan Bottarelli  by Bryan Bottarelli Baltimore and Chicago — (TFN): As of 1:00 p.m. CT, the Dow [...]

Investing in Base Metals: Plunder Albania’s Forbidden Commodity Fortune for 758% Gains

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New Personal Finance Video: Financial secrets of the candidates

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Baltimore — ( TFN): Watching the candidates’ debates these days, you might get the impression they all are saints and humanitarians who spend their spare time ladling soup for the homeless, polishing halos, and fretting about where the next paycheck is going to come from to cover the rent for their rent-control efficiency.Especially liberal candidates running [...]

Emerging Markets: India’s power conundrum

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  “To grow Indian GDP at a sustainable rate of 8%, power generated in India needs to grow by around 12%.” — Equitymaster.com   Blogger’s Note: Our friends at equitymaster.com, India’s foremost financial web portal, just published the following article on the correlation of India’s economic growth and its supply of power. We thought you might find [...]

Commodities Investing: The secrets of successful resource investing

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"Investing in international commodities plays, especially a place like Russia, you need to focus on three things. That’s always: people, property, and money." — Andrew Mickey This is the transcript of the TFN Smart Investing Market Insights program "The Dirtiest Market in the World", filmed on 11/21/07. Host: Krista Das; Guest: Andrew Mickey, editor, BreakAway Investor [...]

New Personal Finance Video: Financial secrets of the candidates

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“Former vice president and latter-day eco-saint Al Gore also has just demonstrated the benefits of long-term financial planning. After an Oscar-winning performance in his science fiction movie, the Leni Rieffenstahl Awards, and the Yassir Arafat Peace price, the inventor of the internet is now a leading venture capitalist.” — J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): [...]

Decline of the Dollar: Inflation at record highs — in Germany!

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“The Federal Statistics Department in Germany just released that based on preliminary numbers, November inflation over the previous month is up 3% — far higher than estimated.” — J. Christoph Amberger by J. Christoph Amberger, TFNBaltimore — (TFN): The pundits are restless… seeing conspiracies in every inflation report the Federal Reserve releases. Sure, in a [...]

China IPO Backdoor Strategy: Buy this mobile content company now for less than the cost of a movie ticket!

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by Stephanie Grimmett, TFN Baltimore — (TFN): China Mobile (CHL: NYSE) is as ubiquitous in its homeland as Verizon is in the United States. And the company has popped up everywhere in the last few weeks. As you may recall, Taipan recommended China Mobile, the largest Chinese cellphone company, in the June [...]

American Media: Putting the “King” into Larry King Live

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“Larry King is the master of infotainment. He is the Walter Cronkite of infotainment. And that is a pretty scary thought. He looks old. He looks like a mortician does his makeup. Hell, the man has been on the air for more than half a century and been married seven times! But the man still [...]

New Personal Finance Video: Red-hot holiday gifts this season

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TFN Baltimore — (TFN): Tech toys and gadgets are topping holiday wish lists again this year. There is Apple’s iPhone… its newly redesigned iPod Touch… and the Nintendo Wii gaming system… these are all in red-hot demand! Find out which small company profits from record sales of all three devices! ***Don’t forget to watch this weekend’s [...]

Dow Sell-off: Capitulation Low — buy these options now!

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“The U.S. market is poised for a bounce. Buy the Dow Diamonds January $132. (symbol: DAWAB).” — Christian DeHaemer by Christian DeHaemer, TFN Baltimore — (TFN): The Dow Industrial Average has sold off more than 1,000 points in the past five weeks. It has been down for the past six trading days. This is too [...]

Gold Supply: China is emerging as the world’s largest gold producer

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“While gold retains its allure for hard-money American armchair economists writing newsletters and daily relevances and their followers, Americans’ fascination with gold seems strange to most European analysts — for whom recent gains in the metal price have been reduced by the synchronous decline in the dollar.” — J. Christoph Amberger by J. Christoph Amberger, TFN Baltimore [...]

Decline of the Dollar: European manufacturers are beginning to hurt

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“Another 10% appreciation of the euro against the dollar would cost the European economies half a percentage point in economic growth. While manufacturers and exporters still are sitting on solid order backlogs, it remains to be seen if orders keep coming in when exchange rates alone are adding a 10% premium to European products…” — [...]

US Consumer Spending: Record holiday sales tell market bears to get real

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“Apparently, American consumers haven’t quite heard the message that they’re supposed to be out of cash. And it seems “credit crunch” hasn’t trickled down to the mainstream either. There was more plastic out at any given cash register than was used in Cher’s facial architecture.” — J. Christoph Amberger by J. Christoph Amberger, TFN Baltimore — (TFN): [...]



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