One of the ways that some investors use to identify potential investment opportunities is to analyze the portfolios of many mutual funds and pick the companies that exist across many funds. This strategy basically confirms the most popular stocks among the various fund managers.Retail investors try to simply follow the fund managers’ ideas by investing …
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Commodity prices are often a correlation, but investors now increasingly chase potential acquisition targets. A selection of 100 of the world’s best performing mining stocks shows an aggregate value of USD 33bn, and a weighted average gain of 367% over the past six months, vastly outperforming any other known grouping of equities. There are multiple …
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1. China is well placed to continue its strong development as the global crisis eases, helped in part by using its vast surpluses in massive labor-retraining programs. Low wages paid to trainees have the added benefit of maintaining the country’s cost advantages.China prepares for next surge 2. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner claims he is …
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According to the OECD’s Economic Outlook Interim Report released today GDP is expected to fall by 4.3% in the OECD countries in 2009. Unemployment rate is projected to soar to double digits by the end of 2010. Some of the key takeaways from this report are: International is projected to fall by 13% this year …
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1.Emerging market equity funds took in $2.3 billion in net inflows last week, according to EPFR Global, amounting to the largest inflow since mid-December. Year-to-date high for emerging market inflows 2. The US, encouraged by the likes of President Barack Obama’s advisor Larry Summers, has for decades mismanaged its finances by exploiting the hegemonic character …
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