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Cash in on the latest legislation: Buy Wavecom (WVCM)

General Motors (GM) isn’t the only company producing cars with telematics, and cars aren’t the only place you’ll find this new technology that provides everything from finding directions out of town to sending photos of a burglar in your home to the police. Now that the technology is cheap, billions are going to be made [...]

Four stocks to buy on weakness: Rexam (REX), Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Aggreko (AGK) and HSBC (HSBA)

With the markets in turmoil, it’s time to grab some great stocks at their current cheap prices before they return to pre-crash levels. And Julian Chillingworth, chief investment officer and manager of the Rathbone Income and Growth fund, picked his four favorite London “weakness stocks” for MoneyWeek. Included in the list: Rexam (London:REX), Scottish & [...]

Can Fibonacci (numbers) tell you when to buy gold?

Are gold prices controlled by a mysterious set of ratios known as the Golden Mean? Will Fibonacci numbers give you the key to gains and losses in the gold market?
Fibonacci sequences tend to show up in the strangest of places. And now Dominic Frisby of the UK’s MoneyWeek has discovered them as a good [...]

Lloyd’s (LLOY) to takeover HBOS (HBOS)

“The deal’s being described as a private sector solution – but this could never have happened without government backing, for reasons we’ll go into in a moment.” — John Stepek
Blogger’s note: You may not have noticed, but two of the Big Five banks in the UK just agreed to a merger.
The news [...]

ETFs: The real reason for the Fed’s AIG bailout

“We can’t say we’re surprised. While workers at Lehman might feel somewhat aggrieved, it seems the Fed decided that AIG really was too big to fail.” — John Stepek
Blogger’s note: So why would the Fed bailout AIG after leaving Lehman Brothers hanging only days earlier? The real reason, according to John Stepek of the [...]

UK growth stocks: Buy Spice (SPI), Pace (PIC) and Domino’s UK (DOM)

“We look for firms with strong fundamentals, such as experienced management, a competitive business model and a financial position that allows for sustainable growth. We aim to find firms that we expect to perform well over the cycle, rather than trying to chase short-term gains.” — Catherine Stanley
Blogger’s note: Each week, the UK’s MoneyWeek asks [...]

Mining stocks aren’t dead: Buy Xstrata (XTA) & International Ferro Metals (IFL)

“It’s important that we get back to the fundamentals of supply and demand. Some commodity prices have held up and even continued to rise. These tend to be those where the price is set by contract negotiations.” — Bradley Mitchell
Blogger’s note: Ever wonder where professional traders are putting their money? Well, now you don’t have [...]

Fannie (FNM), Freddie (FRE) & the Fed: The market always wins

“All this miserable little episode in economic history tells us is this – the market will get you in the end, even if it takes 60-odd years to do so.” – John Stepek
Blogger’s note: The government has decided to swallow both Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) whole. But let’s remember that this [...]

Prepare for the hedge fund massacre

“You might think this is all down to the credit crunch or market volatility wiping these funds out, but that’s not always the case. I want to take a look for a moment at the possible motives behind some of these closures.” — Dominic Frisby
Blogger’s note: As the subprime debacle unravelled itself earlier this year, [...]

The British government will destroy the pound sterling

“We must thank Alistair Darling for giving us, with his wise words on Saturday, what has to be the easiest money-making opportunity of the year: to sell the pound as soon as the markets opened on Monday. Not since Northern Rock a year earlier has such an [...]

Buy these funds and ETFs to profit from the biotech merger boom

“There have been a mass of deals in the U.S., while on this side of the Atlantic, a number of attractive little biotech stocks have been approached or agreed to bids in the last couple of months.” — John Stepek
Blogger’s note: You probably heard about the $43 billion Roche (RHHBY:OTC) bid [...]

Now is not the time to become a landlord in the U.S. or UK

“All those poor old first-time buyers are being forced to rent because those mean banks won’t let them borrow enough money to buy a home. And people who do manage to sell their homes, aren’t looking to buy again until the market stops crashing. So that means that demand for rental property is rising, which [...]

A new high for gold prices?

“In typical fashion, gold and silver have not been playing to the script. A war breaks out between Russia and Georgia. You’d expect gold to rise. But the opposite happens: we get one of the most violent sell-offs in recent memory.” — Dominic Frisby
Blogger’s note: Gold prices have fallen through the floor this week. And [...]

Why This Housing Bubble Is Different

“First they had the housing boom. Then they had the foreclosure boom. And that, it seems, has lead to a boom in arson.” — John Stepek
Blogger’s note: John Stepek of UK’s MoneyWeek had some great insight on the housing bubble. He told readers of his free email Money Morning UK [...]

The truth behind Bernanke’s sudden inflation concerns

“To my knowledge, Bernanke has never before stressed the dollar’s decline, the inflationary dangers it poses and his intention to guard against these as much as he did yesterday. The immediate reaction was for the dollar to rally.” — Dominic Frisby
Blogger’s note: Dominic Frisby, an editor at our British [...]

Oil Prices: It’s not a bubble!

“Yes, oil is overbought. Yes, oil is going to correct at some stage. But let’s get this clear – it’s not a bubble.” — Dominic Frisby
Blogger’s note: Dominic Frisby had some great commentary on our current record oil prices in a recent Money Morning (UK) message to his subscribers. Dominic is from our London affiliate [...]

Commodities Trading: Watch the country, not just the commodity

“You get an idea of the fortunes that were to be made when that mine came into production, not just for everyone involved in the company, but also for the locals and indeed for the country. Unfortunately, that country was Ecuador.” — Dominic Frisby
by Dominic Frisby, MoneyWeek
Baltimore – [...]

U.S. Market Outlook: An election year loss

"U.S. election years have, historically, seen healthy gains in the U.S. equity market. To some extent this can be put down to the market’s view that either the incumbent president or, where the president has served two terms, the ruling Party has an incentive to “buy” votes by loosening fiscal [...]

British Property Bubble: Default wave about to hit UK real estate

"The UK housing market is going downhill fast. And as we’ve been predicting, we’ve just seen the first commercial property fund ban retail investors from withdrawing their money." — John Stepek

by John Stepek, MoneyWeek 
Baltimore — (TFN): It’s easy to get bamboozled by the scale of the numbers and the ridiculous acronyms that fly [...]

China Stocks: Is this the beginning of the end of the Shanghai bull market?

"The danger is that a sliding market depresses investment profits, damaging companies’ earnings and hurting their stock prices, pushing the market down quickly." — MoneyWeek

Blogger's Note: Our friends from MoneyWeek published a good article on what's ahead for the Shanghai stock exchange. We thought you might find it useful, too. Find it right here: Air [...]

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