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The Dubai con job

What do Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell, David Beckham and Denzel Washington all have in common. According to FT Alphaville , they all invested in get rich quick schemes in Dubai. So did banks like HSBC ($17 billion), Standard Chartered ($7.8billion), Barclays ($3.6 billion), Citi...

Seen that? - Up march Option Expiration

Up march Option Expiration at The Hedge Funds Weblog The implications are that Option Expiration is up...for March. March 14th Indexes Have had buying through out the afternoon.The pressure has come from the Option side of the market. Internals are now showing...

Hedge funds and brokers turn to poker

Investing and poker have often been compared. But it's not surprising that financial recruiters for hedge funds and broking houses are scrutinizing professional poker to find talent and analytical tools. As Bloomberg reports, they think it's a good fit because both pursuits require a rati...

49 million Americans go hungry

US stocks might be rallying to a 13 month high and retail sales have bounced on the back of resurgent car sales but look behind the numbers and you will see the US is a long way off from recovery. According to a new report from the United States Department of Agriculture, America is stru...

Seen that? - Currency trading with Retirement money

Currency trading with Retirement money at The Hedge Funds Weblog I saw a story the other day , How Retirement Funds are looking into the world of Currency trading. And the thought behind it was, "Stocks and bonds are tied to the business cycl...

The last tuna?

The world is running out of tuna, the result of over fishing and illegal fishing. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has been told that stocks of the giant bluefin tuna are close to collapse with catches in 2008 at three times the ICCAT limit. The ...

Seen that? - YOU SHOULD FOLLOW CASINO NEWS

YOU SHOULD FOLLOW CASINO NEWS at Play Las Vegas Source:www.redrocklasvegas.com You may not think it's of any value to follow the corporate news of the Las Vegas Casino Industry but it is. Yeah I know it's boring, but a quick scan of the ca...

Glass-Steagall and the market meltdown

It's the 10th anniversary of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act . That's right, 10 years ago the Clinton administration abolished the Depression era legislation. Glass-Steagall was passed under the Roosevelt administration in 1933 to stop the Wall Street shenanigans that had ushered in the...

Galleon scandal: just the beginning?

The biggest prosecution of hedge fund insider trading went into overdrive this week with 20 people, including Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, getting hauled up on criminal charges. Bloomberg has the rogue's gallery of all the names of the people behind the insider trading. W...

MBA turkeys and the market

Earlier this year, I did a blog entry slating the business schools for helping create the market meltdown. The Women on the Web site followed up with a brilliant roll call of MBAs, or Masters of the Business Apocalypse, from Harvard. The rogue's gallery includes former Merrill Lynch CE...

Obama dismantles post-Enron reforms

Earlier this week, I did a blog entry on how White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was pushing wants Democrats to let small public companies worth less than $75 million avoid complying with Sarbanes-Oxley. And now the House Financial Services Committee voted 37-32 to do just that. And...

Seen that? - The weekly trend in US stocks

The weekly trend in US stocks at The Hedge Funds Weblog The Major US index`s ( Dow 30 , SP 500 and NASDAQ 100 ) Closed in Weekly sells. They joined Russell 2000 which has been in a Weekly Sell for 3 weeks. The action in the Markets have reflected...

KFC's secrets in China

China, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, has an infatuation with some American brands. Take for example KFC. According to this report , if you ask a local Chinese what their favorite restaurant is and you're more than likely to hear KFC. So what are the secrets to KFC's success...

Seen that? - Email Sucks

Email Sucks at I got Spam?! I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM emai...

Seen that? - NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund

NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund at The Gambling Weblog Cuban says he will launch betting hedge fund In a plan that goes against Pro-US sports and the US restrictions on gambling, internet-millionaire-come-NBA team ow...

The phoney bull market

Is this a bull market or a bear market rally? Commentators like Clem Chambers at Forbes say the market rally seems to have all the hallmarks of a bull market. "Another good augur for a bull market is that no one is calling this,'' Chambers writes. "You really know the end i...

A big week for the US economy

Next weeks marks the anniversary of the turning point in the US economy with collapse of Lehman Brothers. And it's a big week ahead this week. In fact, this could be the make or break week for US stocks with a whole series of events scheduled for the next few days. CNN reports that on Mo...

The next bubbles

All bubbles lead to a meltdown. This is what's so alarming in this Business Insider piece that talks about 10 bubbles in the making: China; gold; renewable energy; the Fed snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, A...

Headed for the double dip

As reported here , the International Monetary Fund says the recovery has begun. It's just that it will be slow and unpredictable. And it's gone so deep that it will affect supply and demand for years to come. What that means is that the long term future is uncertain and we need to win...

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Unemployment figures: don't celebrate yet

When you read the initial reports about the latest US unemployment figures, you would think the recession is over. US stocks rose when the unemployment rate slipped a mere 0.1% to 9.4% as did European stocks , a sign that investors believe that better times are ahead. Unfortunately, it doe...

Another oil shock?

Are we headed for a new crisis, one that's potentially a lot worse than the credit crunch? We're talking about oil. As Scott Nyquist writes in BusinessWeek , we are looking at a second shock to the world economy as the recovery kicks in with demand expected to grow more than 2% annual...

Roubini: the recovery will be ugly

Stocks might be rising with economist Nouriel "Dr Doom" Roubini saying that the worst of the financial crisis is over but the optimism seems to be misplaced. First, his comments don't seem to be that different from him telling Bloomberg earlier this month that the recession wi...

The True Story of True Ventures

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The future is Battery Powered Passive RFID Tags

Here comes battery powered passive RFID tag which is expected to bridge the gap between passive UHF and active RFID. Also known as semi passive tags, battery assisted passive RFID tags comprise of small sized carbon zinc batteries which are eco friendly and are known to increase RF signal strength w...

Unemployment: are the numbers lying?

So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...

National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots

Around the beginning of May I saw two different pieces of news on the NVCA that have hung around in my mind as I've read through other piece of economic news. The first piece, at Red Herring , simply outlined some suggestions the NVCA made at its annual meeting in Boston at the end of April...

Apple 发布 Mac OS X 10.5.7 和 Security Update 2009-002

Apple 刚刚发布了 Mac OS X 10.5.7 和 Security Update 2009-002，修正了大量 Bug、 系统漏洞 ，以及硬件支持方面的问题。主要更新如下： General • Includes latest security fixes. • Includes additional RAW image support for several third-party cameras. • Improves performance of video playback and cursor movements for recent Macs with NVIDI...

Supply chain consultants introduce new inventory reduction analytic tool

Supply Chain Consultants announced last week a new inventory management module for its Zemeter family of supply chain management software tools. Reducing inventories and conserving working capital is the number one issue in the supply chain today. According to Business Wire , Supply Chain C...

iPhone 3.0 Firmware Makes iPhones Happy

I know... this isn't an Apple blog, and we have been covering quite a bit of Apple new lately, but I promise, this will be the last Apple announcement for a while. Simply put, Apple announced the iPhone firmware 3.0 today, and it is going to be great. Tons of new features and many (late) ad...

The bear is bouncing

Forget the irresponsible headline in Forbes, Tide Turns For Wall Street following this week's solid trading figures. Maybe they should have a cold shower, or at least check the fundamentals. This is a bounce, not a rally. We still have the problem of the credit crisis and zombie banks, no...

Don't count on China

Stocks around the world have risen in the hope that China will build on its efforts to restore growth. That's in response to Chinese premier Wen Jiabao pledging that China will hit its 8% growth target. But let's just get real here. China is not going to get us out of this mess ...

The long slump

Yesterday, I did a blog entry giving Warren Buffett's warning that the US economy will remain in a shambles for at least all of 2009. But if yesterday's performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is anything to go by, it will be around for a lot longer than that. As The Wall Str...

The banking crisis and Eastern Europe

The world's banking crisis is hitting Eastern Europe with Russian stocks going into free fall . The Financial Times reports that Moody's says Eastern Europe is looking increasingly vulnerable. According to the FT, Moody's warns of "continuous downward pressure on east Europe...

Novices Given $1 Million to Start a Hedge Fund on TV

Avanta is making its UK television debut with Million Dollar Traders on BBC2. Aired for 3 weeks in January, the series will play out at Avanta's Austin Friars business centre in London. The program gives eight ordinary people a million dollars and two weeks of intensive training to help...

Wall Street to Obama: the banks are insolvent

So Wall Street has greeted the new President by plunging 4% , the worst ever performance on inauguration day and beating the previous record set by the hopeless herbert hoover . Wall Street is telling Obama something: US are in bad shape, perhaps insolvent. The banks led the tsunami with ap...

How to make a killing in the crisis

It sounds counter-intuitive but there is money to be made out of debt. If you have the stomach for risk. One of the most fascinating trends of late has been the booming corporate bond market . Investors are putting their money into new debt and it shows no sign of slowing down. What we are se...

Maths and the meltdown

One of the big drivers of this financial meltdown were the econometric models that saw mathematics guiding investor behavior. The reality is that the big drivers of bubbles are social and psychological. What's needed now is some sort of infrastructure that can anticipate our thinking, inhib...

Indian Stocks Nose Dive 3 Days In A Row

No country or industry is immune from the effects of the economic downturn that is sweeping the world. India, which has enjoyed an influx of wealth, mostly in the high tech industry, for several years running, is now starting to lose some ground as its banks are hit by the world-wide credit crunch....

Investment in Smaller Companies Can Still Pay Big

Paul Elliott over at Motley Fool had an entertaining story this weekend about the value of smaller, lesser known stocks. A Midwest billionaire once claimed he could earn 50% per year on a portfolio of ordinary common stocks. Of course, there was one condition. As the story goes on you find out...

Winners and losers for 2008

Around this time every year, everyone rolls out their list of winners and losers for the last 12 months. There are lists everywhere but the best I've seen is from the Houston Chronicle's Loren Steffy . Not surprisingly, Steffy nominates Wall Street as the biggest loser. Not far behind ...

Christmas Being All But Ignored By European Shoppers

Shares on the European Exchanges continue falling as the world wide financial crisis widens. Christmas is just 3 days away but it looks like it's going to be a bah-humbug type of season as far as Europe's retailers are concerned. Plummeting share prices for auto, bank and oil stocks is the...

Madoff and SEC neglect

The extraordinary $50 billion fraud and Ponzi scheme that Wall Street legend Bernard Madoff is accused of is bad enough. But what is more remarkable are the questions about federal regulators. Why was the Securities and Exchange Commission so slack to pick up what he was doing? More to the poi...

Where can we find the cash in supply chain?

This year I see more than ever that the companies are putting a lot of pressure on people from supply chain, IT and Infrastructure support to cut costs. That's a strategy to reduce the negative effect of the downturn on the company's performance but I think this strategy do more harm tha...

Behind the $1 salary

Chastened by the public uproar, the chief executives of the Big Three automakers have pledged to earn $1 A year in salary to keep their companies in business. It's a good symbol designed to generate maximum publicity, but it's just that. In real life, it's not that big a sacrific...

CPG supply chains: What are they doing?

There is this interesting interview recently published by SCDigest which highlights some of the developments and priorities in CPG and retail sector in supply chain management. You can read the whole article here , however these are my takeaways: - The companies in CPG area are considering fo...

Times are Tough, But This AOC Monitor Displays a Bright Side

Here in the United States, some might say that we are in the middle of an economic free fall , while others might say that we are in the middle of a financial meltdown . Personally, I think they both might be right. On the bright side, many companies, itching to stay in business, are offering ...

US market: it's back to 1997

1997 was the year Tony Blair was appointed Prime Minister of Britain, it was the year Diana Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash. And Bill Clinton was riding high. US stocks and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have collapsed, plunging to the lowest level since 1997. Bloomber...

Beijing's Stimulus Package a Flop?

The $586 billion stimulus package Beijing announced Sunday was a flop with the markets, at least. Seeking Alpha estimates that the effect of the stimulus package on the stock markets in China "lasted...err...about 12 hours." After one day of stock market celebration in China, the bear...

China Unveils Stimulus Package

A number of news sources ( International Herald Tribune , Bloomberg , the WSJ ) are reporting that China has unveiled $586 billion stimulus package that it hopes will bolster domestic demand and help avert a global recession. This from the Wall Street Journal: Though the two-year package appeared...

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Markets and the destruction of wealth

Fear and panic have gripped the world's markets. On Friday, Wall Street continued its plunge , with losses for the year reaching an amazing $8.3 trillion. But if you look at the data closely, you will see we are now seeing a decade of wealth destruction. The S&P500 shows 11 years of no...

I'm Very Tempted to Buy Small Banks

I know we're headed into the 2nd Great Depression and all, but darn it if I'm not tempted to buy in to some of the public regional banks that haven't yet been swallowed up. Here's my theory... Sovereign Bank - SOV - Trading at $4.14 as I write this. Was $10.23 on September 19t...

China Stock Investors Get New Rules

Market Watch is among a number of news sources reporting that China will begin allowing margin trading and short selling on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. The China Securities Regulatory Commission proposed the new rules and China's State Council has approved the proposal, acc...

Bailout blues

US president George Bush has moved to heavy Congress into running with the $700 billion package but the entire thing needs to be put in some sort of perspective. It's just not going to work. Columnist Robert Samuelson compares it to richard nixon 's 1971 wage-price freeze. And ir...

Buffett to the rescue

It's always nice to have a few billion in spare change lying around. Just when everything looked like it was going down the chute, Warren Buffett comes in and inject up to $10 billion in Goldman Sachs . Mind you, it's not exactly a quick fix. He is just putting up a lazy $5 billion to s...

Your "Balanced" Mutual Fund May Be Off Balance

© Brent and MariLynn Many, many, many of us now have to think about investing and mutual funds these days. If you're not an individual investor, there's still a good chance that you have a 401(k) or IRA to deal with. If you're like most people, you have a hazy idea of what to do - ...

Credit crisis: views from the inside

How bad is this crisis? Bad enough for central banks around the world to pump $180 billion into global financial markets, to jump start a system that seems to have broken down completely. Of course, that doesn't solve the main problem here. Banks don't trust each other and won't le...

China's Developing Bond Market

Forex Factory made an interesting point yesterday about the up side of China stock crash: it has led to a stronger bond market in China. Since it reached wild peaks in October of last year, the Shanghai Stock Exchange has lost over half its value. If you're own the outside looking in (lik...

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Black Sunday fallout

Wall Street's meltdown is likely to be a sign of things to come. The shock waves of what happened on Black Sunday will flow into 2009, writes Kathleen Madigan from Dow Jones . "US households are already under strain from falling house prices and incomes that haven't kept pace wit...

Lehman Brothers: the canary in the coal mine

How quick was that? The rally in stocks following the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn't last that long after after the Korean Development Bank confirmed it had ended talks to rescue U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers. Lehman has announced it has lost $3.9 billion in the quar...

China Approaches Policy Change

In a Reuters release today, it is reported that Asian stock markets edged higher, rebounding from a two-year low. Chinese shares surged on hopes for policies from Beijing to jumpstart growth, though many analysts said it was a long shot. Although world stock markets slid to the lowest since S...

Firefox Suche um Bildagenturen erweitern

Tim Böttiger hat für alle, die öfter hochwertige Bilder benötigen eine Suchmaschinenerweiterung für den firefox veröffentlicht. Momentan werden die Bildagenturen photocase , fotolia , gettyimages , shutterstock und f1online angeboten. Die Installation ist einfach: Befindet man...

Wealthy Investors Approve of Alternatives

Surveying more than 400 high net worth investors with greater than $3 million in investable assets, the most recent Bank of America Survey of high net worth Americans indicates that US investors understand the risk and rewards of hedge fund investments. Many expressed greater satisfaction over...

SEC is wrong on short selling

Last week, I did a blog entry attacking the Securities and Exchange Commission for its stunt cracking down on "naked" short selling . At the time, I said it would do nothing to stop market manipulation. It's just a public relations stunt. Now, a strong editorial in Barron...

New York Fund Launch

Southridge LLC, a New York financial holding company , is launching a "not as you know" market neutral fund to add to their portfolio of funds. The new fund, Southridge Market Neutral US LP has the capacity to grow to $1 billion, the fund will have a $500,000 investment minimum,...

Why Offshore Services Are Being Adversely Impacted by the Global Economy

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Siew Yee Lee Given the current poor economic climate, one would expect rapid growth in offshore outsourcing contracts as companies struggle to find ways to cut cost. However, such exponential growth has been difficult, at best, to find - with share prices of com...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fallout - the questions continue

The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Max continue to raise questions. The US government's plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got the initial tick. The big investors supported a $US3 billion short term debt issue from Freddie Mac. But then things turned pear-shaped. Investors, worr...

Legend Capital Raises $400m for New Fund

PE Hub said this week that Legend Capital has raised $400 million for a private equity fund focused on technology, media and telecom in China. Legend Capital's parent company, Legend Group , is based in Hangzhou. They own Lenovo Group Ltd, China's top PC maker. Legend Group invested abo...