tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287019432024-02-18T19:53:20.252-08:00The Business Investing GazzetteHow to get investment ideas from business newsAdventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-34965392230608463272010-02-23T14:17:00.000-08:002010-02-23T14:19:24.531-08:00Japan – Back from the Brink?Editor's Note: This article, by Alec Young, International Equity Strategist at Standard & Poor's, was originally published in the February 2010 edition of Capital IQ's Monthly Market Observations, pp. 34-36.Japan is the largest overseas stock market in the world, recently weighing in at 14.6% of free float adjusted international equity market capitalization. Just when its long-term Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-10003135483148820452010-02-02T11:50:00.000-08:002010-02-02T11:56:08.998-08:00Don't Buy REITsIf you feel like investing in real estate, you're better off buying cheap lots in Florida rather than REITs. Yes, it is possible to buy a waterfront lot for under $5,000 - a much better investment than the stock market right now. Check out this essay by Dan Amos:The commercial real estate crisis may be the most anticipated crisis in history. But just because it's widely anticipated doesn't mean Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-13930259366882708132009-08-02T14:32:00.000-07:002009-08-02T14:33:45.580-07:00How The Government Steals From PensionersI think we've just witnessed the end of capitalism. The U.S. government (remember "We The People"?) has just taken money from Chrysler debtholders in the name of saving jobs for American union workers. Not only is this freely giving away money to the long-failing auto industry, but the government plans to pay for it with our tax dollars and the future tax dollars of our children… In case you Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-51376354803650066522009-07-20T00:34:00.001-07:002009-07-20T00:39:38.888-07:00Looking at the Trends for GoldI came across an interesting article by Byron King. Here it is:The first thing I do when I sit down at my desk in the morning is check the price of gold. The second thing I do is check the price of oil.Sure, the price for gold and oil changes all the time. Prices go up and down, for good and bad reasons. Heck, sometimes prices fluctuate and the reasoning defies logic.Still, I watch the price Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-21954005676763198142009-02-24T18:39:00.000-08:002009-02-24T18:47:44.992-08:00Real Estate Market Overview 2009The Condensed Version: Serious dislocation has resulted in the following challenges:1. A huge capital gap has been created (most debt has vanished, and all the available equity is not enough to fill the hole).2. No one expects surviving financial institutions to ramp up lending once they finally stop their own mammoth balance sheet bleeding (even with gargantuan government bailouts).3. PersistentAdventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-87286920402296562602009-01-17T14:04:00.000-08:002009-01-17T14:06:18.781-08:00Funds Copy Buffett!Fancy the opportunity to invest with international investment gurus such as Warren Buffett, Mark Mobius or Bill Gross? Krung Thai Asset Management wants to give local Thais the chance.The KTAM Investment Legends Fund (KTIL), the first equity foreign investment fund launched this year, is a feeder fund investing in Warren Buffett's famed investment holding company Berkshire Hathaway, the TempletonAdventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-62781051048975148432008-11-11T11:33:00.000-08:002008-11-11T11:36:11.535-08:00GM Stock Downgraded To ZeroContinuing on our theme of bankrupt US Auto manufactureres, here's a report from MarketWatch:Deutsche Bank downgraded General Motors Corp. to sell from hold, with a price target of $0, saying the car maker may not be able to fund its U.S. operations beyond December without government intervention. Deutsche Bank said it believes the U.S. government will be Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-29385609689546978412008-10-28T16:53:00.000-07:002008-10-28T16:58:55.812-07:00US Auto-Makers In TroubleKirk Kerkorian is still dumping Ford shares. Tracinda, Kerkorian's investment vehicle, pared its position to 4.89% from 6.09% on October 20. At its peak, Tracinda owned 6.43% of the company.The National Automobile Dealers Association estimates 700 new-car dealerships will close this year, and 37,100 jobs will go with them. The country's 20,700 dealerships accounted for $693 billion in sales last Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-52322180545664050862008-10-27T05:18:00.000-07:002008-10-27T05:22:15.221-07:00What Should Gold Bugs Do?“I believe the gold juniors offer the best value for your paper dollar going forward,” says Ed Bugos of the violently beaten-down junior mining sector. The Canadian Venture Index, the bellwether of juniors, is down a nauseating 70% from its 2007 high.Ed sent over a lists of what gold bugs should NOT do: * Don't be overly short the stock market at this stage of the collapse. * Don’t Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-61546112531001608922008-10-12T10:18:00.000-07:002008-10-12T10:22:53.438-07:00The New Communism: Capitalism!The US ban on short-selling financial stocks just expired last week. And during most of the 2-week duration stocks plummeted anyway. The WSJ had an article on it where several large financial bigwigs admitted it was a farce and a bit like "having a big glass of orange juice only to have a sugar crash a few hours later".But while the rest of the world is scrambling to shore up its financial Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-52709683175531589232008-08-09T11:37:00.000-07:002008-08-09T11:38:45.191-07:00Billionaires Prefer MoscowIn 1998, Moscow was in crisis. More than 100,000 Russians took to the streets as a slew of banks – and the life savings of millions of citizens – went bust.But just a decade later, the global commodities boom has made Russia flush with cash, and Moscow has become a pricey place to live.That's the finding in Mercer's 2008 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey. Moscow tops the list with a score of 142.4,Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-71752820803979849472008-08-05T08:21:00.000-07:002008-08-28T17:33:44.142-07:00The Best Place To Buy Investment Real EstateI've been an avid real estate investor in the past and I still keep abreast of the market and good places to invest. Here's an interesting email I received recently.The Cheapest "Nice" Country in the World Right NowBy Doug Casey, editor, The Casey ReportI've been to about 175 countries, and lived in 12. All the while, I've felt the U.S. and Western Europe in particular (but also Canada, to a Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-12614894514259756212008-08-03T11:39:00.000-07:002008-08-09T11:40:14.994-07:00Drilling In The Artic?The Arctic holds as many as 90bn barrels of undiscovered oil and has as much undiscovered gas as all the reserves known to exist in Russia, US government scientists have said in the first state assessment of the region.The estimates could fuel the race among polar nations, such as Russia, the US, Denmark, Norway and Canada, vying for control of the region, though the study said Russia and the Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-5706298559946549962008-07-15T01:58:00.000-07:002008-12-10T12:26:56.289-08:00There's Still No RecessionEven though its been feeling like a recession for 6 months, economics keep telling us that it isn't so. I guess they must be right!Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-30970797450005458572008-07-14T13:31:00.000-07:002008-07-14T13:36:12.016-07:00Coal Companies Cleaning Up?Today, the Financial stocks were in complete meltdown. Stocks like Washing Mutual(WM) were down 35% along with Freddie Mac (FRE) and Fannie Mae (FNM). The one sector that did pretty well today was Coal. And why wouldn't it?According to newsletter editor Byron King, the future for coal is promising;“The U.S. Air Force is putting together a program to develop a domestic synthetic jet fuel. Just as Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-89970006333524557012008-07-01T11:52:00.000-07:002008-07-01T11:55:26.067-07:00Investing In Vanadium: What's That?“Ultra high-strength and super-light steels are the plastics of the 21st century,” says Chris Mayer, editor of a popular investment newsletter. “There is high demand for these steels for use in everything from jet engines to rail components. In turn, there is a big push for the quirky metals so critical in making them. And in those quirky metals are good opportunities for investors.”“Vanadium’s Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-58595161648772805522008-06-30T01:48:00.000-07:002008-12-10T12:26:56.552-08:00Investing In Infrastructure CompaniesThe U.S. has been lagging in infrastructure spending for decades. At present, America spends less than 2.4% of its GDP on infrastructure, compared to 5% in Europe and 9% in China. At the same time, the U.S. population is expected to grow 50% by 2050.According to an estimate from the American Society of Civil Engineers, its suggested that the U.S. government will need to spend $1.6 trillion over Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-8721383727801337952008-06-28T15:22:00.000-07:002008-12-10T12:26:56.931-08:00The Cheapest In 25 YearsAccording to Steve Sjuggerud, Japanese stocks are cheaper than they've been at any time in the last quarter-century. I started buying Japanese small cap stocks via the ETF last year, but I was early to the party. You have to go back to the beginning of 1983 to find price-to-earnings ratios and price-to-book values this low... and dividend yields this high.If you were bold enough to buy Japanese Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-34715139473277859812008-06-23T10:57:00.000-07:002008-06-23T11:00:18.380-07:00Pork Prices Are IncreasingAccording to the Des Moines Register, it seems that Pork prices are next on the list of inflationary increases. Even though there's still no inflation, isn't it funny how everything is increasing in price!For consumers feeling the pinch of higher food prices, the flooding of prime Midwest farmland will bring more bad news in supermarkets through next year.By wiping out corn and soybean crops Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-27405737655237836202008-06-14T19:19:00.000-07:002008-06-14T19:20:57.877-07:00Time To Buy Airlines!One of my favorite investors and long-time commodities bull, Jim Rogers, gave an interview to Bloomberg this week, and his story's largely unchanged... Jim is still short all investment banks through an ETF. He's specifically short Citibank and Fannie Mae.Rogers also announced he purchased airlines. His reason... "Everybody's very bearish." He said flights are full, fares are increasing, and if Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-80481443502223846542008-06-02T07:29:00.000-07:002008-06-02T07:31:30.688-07:00US Exports ExplodeAccording to the International Herald Tribune:As U.S. exporters scramble to meet the increased demand for their products created by the weak dollar, they are running into an unexpected snag: Space on ships leaving American ports has suddenly become scarce.So the country's farmers, chemical companies, machinery makers and other exporters are facing delays at the docks that erode the currency Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-47196922000687201652008-05-30T20:11:00.000-07:002008-05-30T20:12:54.539-07:00Dow Chemical To Raise Prices 20%Global chemical producer Dow Chemical Co. (DOW) announced Wednesday that it would raise prices on all 3,200 of its products – some by as much as 20% – beginning at the start of the third quarter. Bloomberg News said it's the single-biggest price increase in the Michigan-based company's 111-year history. But Dow Chief Executive Officer Andrew Liveris said the price hike was made necessary by "Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-18465759846394534862008-05-29T21:48:00.000-07:002008-05-29T21:49:56.864-07:00Food Inflation At Record LevelsAccording to USA Today, Food inflation is the highest in almost two decades, driven by record prices for oil, gas and mounting global demand for staples such as wheat and corn, and for proteins such as chicken. And that's reaching into Americans' backyards.Basic economics account for most of the increase: Bad weather has hurt crops, economic prosperity has driven up demand in developing countriesAdventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-7103080278214030622008-05-18T10:53:00.000-07:002008-05-18T10:57:00.207-07:00Attractive Brazilian Stocks To ConsiderAccording to Martin Hutchinson, there are more than 30 Brazilian companies with full American Depository Receipt (ADR) listings on the New York Stock Exchange, plus 40-50 more that are traded in the over-the-counter market. Here are a few attractive examples to consider: * Banco Itau Holding Financeira SA, referred to usually as Banco Itau (ADR: ITU), has a Price/Earnings ratio of 14 and Adventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28701943.post-75421294133627919632008-05-08T09:32:00.001-07:002008-05-08T09:37:20.826-07:00Investing In Japanese REITsHere' a few good reasons why Japanese real estate is a great place for our money:• Japanese real estate investment trusts (REITs) are a great bargain, down 29% since June 1.• Dividend yields are the highest income plays in Japan, in the 4% range.• There's a huge incentive to borrow and buy real estate, as "cap rates" (essentially the rent minus the costs of upkeep) are 4%-6%, while the cost ofAdventures In Money Makinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626547145630159461noreply@blogger.com0