IN THIS ISSUE: 1. 4Q GDP Came in Better Than Expected 2. Bernanke Defends Quantitative Easing 3. The Truth Behind High Gas Prices 4. How US Could Become World’s Largest Energy Producer Introduction Being in the business I am, people frequently ask me why gasoline prices are so...
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HSBC Holdings, the U.K.-based banking behemoth, said it was going to hire 2,000 employees in China and Singapore. Since over 50% of its profits come from Asia, HSBC knows a thing or two about the region. “Opportunities for growth are many in China. We forecast that the combined middle-class population...
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What can a hamburger teach you about investing? An awful lot if you peak underneath the pickles and lettuce and listen carefully to what the world’s biggest hamburger company tells you. I’m talking about McDonald’s (MCD) . McDonald’s recently reported first quarter results that...
I have been touting Asian stocks for years not because I was born in Japan but because that is where the best stock market opportunities are to be found. There are three ways to invest in foreign stocks: Option #1: Buy American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs. ADRs represent ownership in the shares of a...
The United States created more than 200,000 jobs in March and pushed the unemployment rate down to 8.8%, according to the Labor Department. On top of that, the stock market ended the quarter with a bang and ended up as the best first quarter for stocks in 12 years. The Wall Street crowd was impressed...
I have talked about inflation, especially rising food prices, several times this year, and while I don’t want to sound like a broken record, the evidence continues to mount AND the opportunity to make to a lot of money is growing. What happened last week in the grains market is especially telling. First...
On March 2, I wrote about the uncomfortably rapid increase in food prices and how you could profit from the forthcoming food inflation boom. I said: “Over the last year, global food prices have increased by 29% partially due to weather shocks such as the Russian drought and floods in China. The real...
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The finance chiefs of the world's 20 most-developed economies recently gathered in Paris to discuss the challenges facing the global economy. One of those challenges is inflation — especially food inflation. "International commodity prices are rising. Food situation is a major issue which...