Risk Management Risk management is a vital part of planning for any business expansion or change. It is intended to minimize if not totally eliminate events that might give negative impact on a business. A sensible risk management process involves precise identification, careful evaluation and prioritization of all elements involved. Whatever the nature of your […]
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Conflicting Forces at Play with Oil Prices An Interview with Mike Shedlock As markets continue to yo-yo and commentators deliver mixed forecasts, investors are faced with some tough decisions and have a number of important questions that need answering. OilPrice.com was fortunate enough to speak with the award winning economic commentator Mike “Mish” Shedlock. His blog: Mish’s
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By Elliott Wave International Financial markets always have always posed two basic questions that investors seek to answer: What’s the direction of the main trend? How far will it go? Systematic approaches to these questions commonly belong to either fundamental or technical analysis. Let’s consider each one briefly. Fundamental analysis studies how a market behaves in response
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Often governments and corporations need to raise capital for a multitude of reasons. To do this they have several channels available. They can borrow from banks, issue stock or borrow from investors or they can issue debt securities in the form of bonds. Many investors (called bond holders) purchase these bonds and in return, the company gets a lump
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Editor’s Note: Anyone who has ever taken Economics 101 knows that the free market is more efficient than top down governmental planning at efficiently distributing goods and services at the lowest possible price. But often governmental bureaucrats have their own agenda that doesn’t include efficiency (or low price) as a priority. How would you feel if some government
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The children of Fukushima. The Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey revealed that 13,460 children, or 35.3 percent, had thyroid cysts or nodules up to 0.197 inches long growing on their thyroids and 0.5 percent of the children had growths larger than 0.197 inches. Seventeen months after the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Tokyo
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Editor’s Note: In today’s interview Alex Daly talks with former Reagan budget director David Stockman about Austerity, the FED, housing, debt, the economy, the stock market, bonds, and much more. Here are a few of David’s excellent quotes from the interview: [The FED is] being run by people who are clueless as to how to get
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Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Energy Firms in Argentina – Interview with Sam Logan Angering Spain by seizing and nationalizing a majority of Repsol’s shares in YPF and ramping up the rhetoric over the Falkland Islands as exploration deals promise to make the territory a major oil player overnight, Argentina is making
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Central-Bank Gold-Buying By Jeff Clark, Casey Research Doug Casey told me in January, “The only thing that scares me is that central banks are buying a lot of gold; they’re historically contrary indicators.” When it comes to buying gold, central banks have such a poor timing record that they’re frequently joked about as a contrary
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DRIPs Many companies which pay dividends on their stock also offer dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. Receiving a quarterly dividend check is nice, of course, but you’re probably not going to be receiving much at once, and many of us would be inclined to fritter that extra cash away. DRIPs help you make more effective
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