a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/SuRR_Iy-uXI/AAAAAAAACE4/VGFRB7HKHJA/s1600-h/jim-rogers.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/SuRR_Iy-uXI/AAAAAAAACE4/VGFRB7HKHJA/s320/jim-rogers.jpg" alt="jim rogers" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396528398631614834" border="0" //abr /span style="font-weight: bold;"Why is China booming? Are these prices for commodities still safe to buy and what about U.S. dollar? All these questions and outlook for the rest of 2009 and 2010 from Jim Rogers./spanbr /span style="font-weight: bold;"21st century for China /spanbr /br /We must not forget the rest of Asia which is growing as fast as China. The reasons are many, but according to Jim Rogers is particularly important to note the following:br /br /1.) The Chinese want to live as a people living in the westbr /2.) They are eager to workbr /3.) They have better morale, in terms of savingsbr /4.) There are about one and a half billion people in China (all Asia population reaches three billion). Western countries are ...

After gold prices crossed above psychological level of $1000, target price for gold became very popular topic on the markets. Jim Rogers predicts gold prices to go even to $2000. In today's article I sum up some of latest analysis from Adam Hewison about gold.br /br /In the first video Adam provides some mid and long term a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ino.com/info/458/CD3103/amp;dp=0amp;l=0amp;campaignid=3" target="_blank"analysis for US dollar, Samp;P 500 and gold/a.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/Stt1wGRsbDI/AAAAAAAACEo/lVIZFmdJ8AY/s1600-h/ScreenHunter_4.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/Stt1wGRsbDI/AAAAAAAACEo/lVIZFmdJ8AY/s400/ScreenHunter_4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394034447885298738" border="0" //abr /In next analysis you can check his outlook for a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ino.com/info/460/CD3103/amp;dp=0amp;l=0amp;campaignid=3" target="_blank"gold alternative investments like ETF/a. If you want to avoid big volatility in gold market but still benefit from great upside potential than you should start thinking to add some gold funds positions into your holdings.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) ...

I already posted some articles focused on assets classes correlation like the one about a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://stockweb.blogspot.com/2009/08/commodity-equity-correlation.html" target="_blank"correlation between commodities and equities/a. It shows correlation coefficient for precious metals commodities (gold, silver,platinum), crude oil and major US equity indices (Samp;P 500, DJIA).br /br /Correlation analysis is key factor for successful portfolio diversification. Positive correlation means that the prices of shares or ETFs move up or down together. They will probably be impacted in similar way.br /br /If the prices of shares or ETFs move in different directions we call it negative correlation. In this case we achieve high degree of diversification.br /br /There is one useful website where you can do analysis a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://www.assetcorrelation.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"asset correlations/a by using ETF. It has matrix for countries, sectors or bonds. Another interesting function is correlation over time where you can check the development of correlation coefficient for two tickers.div ...

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/Ssh4oGKGY6I/AAAAAAAACDw/cRNPMvszsZY/s1600-h/inflation.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388689584391873442" title="inflation" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="inflation" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/Ssh4oGKGY6I/AAAAAAAACDw/cRNPMvszsZY/s320/inflation.jpg" border="0" //abr /span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"Right now we are globally in period of low interest rates and low inflation rate. In some economies even with deflation. What should we do when inflation will start to rise again?/spanspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" How to invest money when inflation is inching up?/spanbr /br /The best investments against inflation are a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://stockweb.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-invest-in-gold.html"investing in gold/a, index linked bonds, national savings index linked certificates, shares and property.br /br /I will focus more on less risky inflation protected securities like TIPS (Treasury inflation protected securities) or "linkers" (inflation indexed bonds/gilts). Coupon payments reflect rising inflation and/or interest rates. TIPS are generally one of the safest investments. It should be a part of retirement or standard portfolio for better diversification.br /br /There are already some ...

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/SliFWLKrl0I/AAAAAAAAB-s/qlz94y4W300/s1600-h/gold+bullions.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 158px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/SliFWLKrl0I/AAAAAAAAB-s/qlz94y4W300/s200/gold+bullions.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357178372758411074" border="0" //abr /Gold is of these assets which are mostly used for hedging against falling equities but also used as a safe heaven for political, economic or other kind of crisis. This has been seen during current financial crisis and global economic recession. The gold prices topped all time high $1000 this March when stocks found their bottom. The bottom at least for now.br /br /There are several ways how to invest to gold. One of the possible investment is in physical gold ownership. The gold can be purchase as bullion bars, coins or as a numismatic coins.br /br /Investment without interest in physical ownership are based and on exchange traded products. Here is the list of the most liquid Gold ETFs (exchange traded funds):br /br /span style="font-weight: ...

Have a look to the picture above. It is 12 years chart of currency pair EUR/GBP. You can see that the worst recession in UK history since Second World War sent British Pound to 0.97 against EUR. But with the signs of bottoming currency pair is traded now around 0.90 with declining triangle pattern. If support level for EUR (0.88) will be crossed the pair is heading to support range 0.80-0.77. Another stop would be 0.72. Bullish signs for Pound based on technical recovery. On the other hand any downside correction for equities will push Pound lower.

It has been long time since I was blogging last time about finance portals from Yahoo and Google. Actually it was on September 08 right before deep sell off on stock market had started. And since that time there is no progress on new features neither for Google Finance nor for Yahoo Finance. Finance Google (GOOG) released functionality for its Android and launched and launched ads on Google Finance. Nothing interesting, nothing important. Finance Yahoo (YHOO) is even behind Google. If you check their blog about Finance Yahoo site, you can find out that except some Facebook portfolio application there in no new single release. And it is being so half of the year. It seems like big search giants focus on core business and cost cutting rather than developing new functionalities for its secondary ...

I have listed already two times some a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://stockweb.blogspot.com/2009/03/top-gurus-best-investment-for-2009.html"investment recommendations from top investor gurus Warren Buffett or George Soros/a but also a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://stockweb.blogspot.com/2009/04/jim-rogers-latest-investment-picks.html"investing strategy of Jim Rogers/a.br /br /Today I bring you some summary from Kenneth Fisher and David Tice.br /br /U.S. stock index Samp;P 500 may rise by up to 70% from its March's low. With this claim came billionaire Kenneth Fisher. Since 9th of March the index has increased by 28 percent. The largest five growth since 1938. The growth was largely driven by the financial sector. Fisher believes that the bear market corrections are not so great. He believes that the shares are the cheapest in several decades. Billionaire Kenneth Fisher believes that the index from March's low can grow around 60-70 % until March 2010.br /br /Fisher recommends buying shares in emerging markets, shares of energy companies, mining, metals and technology titles. ...

Based on the investor poll, commodities seem to be the most appealing investment for 2009. Followed by stocks, bonds and cash as the worst asset class for the year. In this post I would like to gather opinions about investing in 2009 from top investor gurus. Let me start with Warren Buffett. Warren called stock market bottom already in mid 2008 and have started to add equity positions to his holding. Last actions show buying interests in railroads companies. He increased stake in Burlington Northern (BNI). Despite of declining volume, earnings have gone up by 19%. Other interesting picks from industry are Union Pacific with 35% earnings growth or CSX Corp (CSX) with 16%. Another two top investors, Donald Coxe and David Winters, like railroads. Companies will benefit from low energy costs. P/E vary in range of 6 - 8 for the ...