THE UK residential property sector has become a two-tier market in 2010.
Prime real estate in London and the stockbroker belt have outperformed the rest of the country by a wide margin in the past year. Wealthy foreign buyers taking … Read the rest
Why markets are now so difficult to forecast
Central banks, politicians and bankers have turned global investment arena into a casino
June 2011 PREDICTIONS are a waste of time in today’s volatile global markets. Rather than follow usually wrong central bank prognosis, economists’ forecasts, chartists’ configurations or charlatan … Read the rest
Hunt’s silver bubble forerunner of today’s commodity shenanigans
June 2008:- Those who believe that there aren’t shenanigans in oil and other commodity markets, should examine the giant silver bubble of three decades ago.
Texas oil tycoons, Bunker and Herbert Hunt, Saudi princes and other Middle Eastern associates, drove … Read the rest
Sovereign Wealth Funds with $4 trillion underperform
October 2010:- Sovereign Wealth Fund’s assets under management have now reached $4 trillion and could rise to more than $6 trillion in 2012, predicts the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute. The funds have thus become exceedingly important players in global markets … Read the rest