Posts Tagged ‘decade’
Making money out of BRICs
The Education of the ECB
The euro is just over a decade old. In its short existence it has been embraced by every level of the international currency markets. Central banks, national treasuries, sovereign funds and multi-national corporations store their wealth and trust its central bank custodians to maintain value. Institutional and retails traders have…
Will next decade be another bubble-popper?
A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated the years from 2000 to 2009. Will the next decade be different?
Wall Street – Business – Investing – Financial Services – Directories
Weekly Market Commentary
As is so often the case, after last week’s serious financial jitters this one was spent waiting for US Non-Farm Payroll numbers (details below). The biggest loser was the Japanese yen, dropping from a multi-decade high of 84.82 to 89.90, no doubt to the relief of the authorities; the Mexican…
Too much disclosure can sometimes be bad
MOST people place their faith in the disclosure-based model which says that the more information financial advisers and companies are made to tell the public, the better. This is the rationale behind Regulation Full Disclosure (RFD) in the US and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and is the preferred regulatory approach that has evolved over the past decade in tandem with deregulated markets.
Howeve… more
Chartered sold despite investor angst
A DECADE ago, investor Lui Chee Meng sank $30,000 into what he thought was a safe blue-chip company backed by Temasek Holdings.
Now, he has lost almost all the cash he put into Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world’s No. 3 chipmaker.
The loss made him so angry that he voted against the $5.6 billion acquisition of Chartered by a Middle Eastern fund.
But the sale went through anyway, as o… more



