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OVERNIGHT MARKETS ROUND UP – 14/03/14
The European and American losses that occurred yesterday continued throughout the Asian session with the Nikkei falling to a 1 month low as risk-averse investors pull their positions and seek safe havens due to the flared up issues that surround Ukraine and the slowdown in China. The Dow Jones dropped over 230 points throughout its…
TITAN YTD RETURNS TO 7 MARCH JUST OUT
A Zak Mir FX webcast special – the king of the castle & the “big 3” crosses
Perhaps on a purely intuitive basis, it could be said that with the Russia / Crimea / Ukraine situation, and additionally the Federal Reserve Tapering of QE that is underway, that the U.S. dollar should be “king of the castle” as far as the currency crosses are concerned. While this may indeed yet prove…
Three reasons to remain long gold (and one real stonker)
When it comes to gold bullion prices, despite their mere 10% climb since the beginning of 2012, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see gold bullion prices increase even further. With this, companies producing or looking for the precious metal are still presenting a great buying opportunity. Let me explain… We see demand for…
Quotes of the day from Twitter on a certain share “tipster”…
“Typical attention seeking frm failed investor/CEO/Journalist. Didn’t think he could go lower in my estimations but he has with that City Spineless bastard that never had the balls to say this when Bob was alive: £52K for a train driver but how many lives in their hands compared to a ramping shares blogster? You scumbag…
broker upgrades & downgrades – 13/03/14
OVERNIGHT MARKETS ROUND UP – 13/03/14
European stock futures are indicating a higher open, despite worse than expected China data. China’s industrial production slowed to 8.6% in the January to February period, adding to the poor data we have already seen at the beginning of the week. On Monday, markets took a negative reaction to the poor data but have failed…
Remember – cash is king when markets fall
The optimism on the key stock indices is increasing as the fundamentals that suggest the rally will go on continue to deteriorate. Investors beware; this disparity doesn’t end well. The possible upside gains look to be very small, and the downside risks are increasing. To me, it feels like we are back in 2007…
zak mir mining special update
Today was going to witness a video blog here on the Spreadbet Magazine website, a genre which tends to be quicker off the mark in terms of making it onto the web page. The chosen stocks for the video were African Barrick Gold (ABG), Hochschild Mining (HOC), Anglo American (AAL), Petropavlovsk (POG) and Avocet Mining…