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Hot Cars Hot Models and Hot Mortgage Insurance Returns to the Real Estate Purchase Market in ?

From Mortgage News and Rates, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Community Sites site. Saturday October 22nd 2011. Having trouble viewing. Home Buyers have more opportunity than they have had since January 2008. View original story at http://loans.faemm.com/2011/10/hot-cars-hot-models-and-hot-mortgage-insurance-returns-to-the-real-estate-purchase-market-in-alameda/ Read more

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Is derating of emerging-market stocks justified'

From Investment Postcards from Cape T, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog.The dividend yield of the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (EEM) recently moved above the dividend yield of the iShares S&P 500 Index Fund (IVV) for the first time since the 2008/2009 financial crisis.Sources: iShares; Plexus Asset Management.Sources: iShares; Plexus Asset Management.The 76% increase in the dividend from EEM for the six months to June put the fund's dividend yield on par... Read more

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Property Investing in the UK

From Invest in Overseas Property, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Property Investing in the UK Copyright (c) 2008 Parmdeep Vadesha More and more people are putting UK and international property into their portfolio of savings and investments. With property investing comprising a big industry in the UK, it is natural that it is attracting a lot of investors who are on the lookout for great investment opportunities. If you are interested in property investing in the UK, you might want to take a peek at what’s going to be in store for you. The United... Read more

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Put Gold and Silver Correction into Perspective

From Precious Metal Investment, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

It is time to put the recent media comments about the end of the end of the bull run that gold and silver have enjoyed since the beginning of 2002 into perspective. To recap, at the beginning of that year the spot price of gold stood at $300 an oz. While silver could be bought for just over $4.00 an oz. Over the next six years gold reached $1000.00 an oz., a 333% rise with silver posting a 500% rise to $20 an oz. Then came a sharp correction in the latter half of 2008, dropped by over 50 % to... Read more

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Quote du Jour: U.S. private debt decline in perspective

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Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog.Today's quote du jour comes courtesy of Comstock Partners.“We find it incredible that there was not one quarterly decline in household debt since 1952 (as far back as we could find data) until the third quarter of 2008 from where we’ve had 12 consecutive quarterly declines. We didn’t even have one quarter of decline during the worst recessions since the Great Depression (up until the... Read more

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Harvard economist sees mortgage debt hurting housing market for some time ? HousingWire

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By KERRY CURRY. The United States may have cushioned the fall from the 2008 financial crisis but stretched out the pain by its actions, one Harvard University economist said. View original story at http://www.housingwire.com/2011/10/14/harvard-economist-sees-mortgage-debt-hurting-housing-market-for-some-time Read more

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Crisis Chartbook

From Investment Postcards from Cape T, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog.Everybody is asking where to now with the global financial markets. I thought it was worthwhile comparing the current behavior of the financial markets with the two recent crises, namely the great financial crisis of 2008/2009 and the minor one in 2010 when the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone developed.I have charted the series starting with two months before each crisis developed and ended the... Read more

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Rand Prospects

From Investment Postcards from Cape T, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog.By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of FNB.After decade-long overvaluation, rudely interrupted in late 2008 by a severe bout of global risk aversion and Rand undervaluation, the Rand finds itself today once again subjected to a spell of global risk aversion on account of crisis, its severe overvaluation reduced to mild proportions in 7.50-8.50:$ territory.Little of the Rand's movements since 2002 had... Read more

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Optimists are responsible for the financial crisis! [TØny Hine]

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Extract from: Brain imaging reveals why we remain optimistic in the face of reality For example, "many experts believe the financial crisis in 2008 was precipitated by analysts overestimating the performance of their assets even in the face of clear evidence to the contrary," said researcher Dr. Tali Sharot of UCL. Cheers TØny... Read more

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Can markets find the road back to positive territory'

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Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog.The article below is a guest contribution by Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors.As we began last quarter, we asked: ?Is the market set to take off'? In a world full of uncertainty during the third quarter, global investors gave a definitive answer: No.U.S. stock markets suffered through the worst quarter since 2008, with the S&P 500 Index dropping nearly 14... Read more

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