The “high water mark” sounds so simple. Get back any losses before you earn an incentive fee. But this simple idea can affect managers in many unforeseen ways….
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Funds he runs were up $15 billion in 2007 on a spectacularly successful bet against the housing market. Mr. Paulson has reaped an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion for himself — believed to be the largest one-year payday in Wall Street history….
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Damn I hate to see this. This is why I always preach about position sizing & risk management. One bad trade should never wipe out your life savings….
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By Vipin Agnihotri The merger of Air Deccan into Kingfisher Airlines has given quite a bit of relief to the Indian aviation industry. This is because of the simple reason that after merger Mallya said on record that the days of giving unviable fares to passengers is now gone. …
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When I return from a conference, I often truck home a small pile of stress balls, key chains and other logo-laden giveaways that vendors foisted on me and other attendees. Most winds up in the trash.
Now the green movement is hitting the trinkets that companies big and small hand out to customers and vendors each year. Here are some items that were seen at the Promotional Products Association International …
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About once a week I like to run through about 200 of the most liquid ETF's to get a better sense of the market. A good picture of the market can be painted by scanning through them so I thought I'd share my thoughts on what I'm seeing (in no particular order). What are [...]
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U.S. stocks expected to decline when markets re-open on Tuesday.…
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Major stock market benchmark Europe’s Stoxx 600 index declined 20% since its 6 and half year high on June 1. This is clear definition of beginning of bear market. European shares entered bear market first time since 2003 due to fear that losses from financial sector and economic recession in US will halt profit growth in Europe. Even though ECB declared that will not follow FED interest rate decision many analysts are now expecting two rates cut within 2008 in Euro zone. Today in Europe we see blood on the street. Look at main stocks benchmark.Main laggard DAX30 touched -7%, CAC40 -5%, FTSE 100 -5%. Emerging markets in Europe don’t look better as well. New statistics are coming every day. Last week was the worst in 5 years. FTSE 100faces the worst start to year since 1935. It is hard to say what could ease current drop and shaped at least short term bottom. Friday’s trading in US showed us that not even good earnings results from IBM (IBM) and General Electric (GE) were able to stop selling. FED rate decision meeting is on 30. January.h…
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This regular weekly article highlights some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week, and briefly reviews the week’s market action on the basis of economic statistics and a performance chart.
Please visit my website (by clicking on the heading above) for the full article, as well as other interesting investment snippets.
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TuesdayEconomic: NAEarnings: BofA (BAC), CSX (CSX), DuPont (DD), J & J (JNJ), Suncor (SU), Waters (WAT), Apple (AAPL), Cree (CREE), HOKU (HOKU), Texas Instruments (TXN)WednesdayEconomic: NAEarnings: Air Products (APD), Alleghany (ATI), Coach (COH), Conoco (COP), Motorola (MOT), Pfizer F5 (FFIV), Gilead (GILD), Hexcel (HXL), QLogic (QLGC), Qualcomm (QCOM), Stryker (SYK), Western Digi (WDC)ThursdayE…
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U.S. finance professors on average, as of the end of 2007, expect stocks to offer a 5% annual (geometric) risk premium over the next 30 years, a little below their expectation in 2001….
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This weekend we published a big article by Peter Goodman and Louise Story describing a trend that I’ve already written about a couple of times: foreigners buying American assets at cut-rate prices. To make their purchases, foreigners need dollars; more demand for dollars pushes the exchange rate higher. And, according to some important [...]…
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