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SUVs Say Tata to Ford
After the well publicised sale of Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata, how is this likely to affect the Indian car manufacturer?
If we have a look at the Tata Motors [TCOA] share price on the London Stock Exchange we can see there has been a drop of just over 11 percent in the month of [...]
Dollar Strength On The Agenda
Yesterday early gains for the euro were negated when the dollar made a sharp recovery following comments by the Federal Reserve chariman, that reiterratted the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s comments on the third of June following comments yesterday from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, the dollar pulled back euro gains from earlier in the day. [...]
Long-term Investment with ETFs
Beating inflation is an important factor to become a successful investor. In the tougher economic conditions in the final quarter of 2007 through into 2008 Central Banks, retail banks, equity brokers and the worlds top exchanges are feeling the squeeze. High street retailers in the UK and US are under pressure as the price of [...]
Oil Rise Leads to Gold Hedging Gains
The rising price of oil sent gold prices up in London. The demand for gold as an inflationary hedge led to rising prices on the commodities market.
Gold is joined by other precious metals seeing a rise in demand with prices rising for platinum, palladium and silver. With oil trading within one percent of $120/bbl, precious [...]
Euro Reaches New All-Time High
The Euro advanced against the Dollar to a new record high of $1.5983, marking the worst decline in Dollar value against the Euro since its inception in 1999.
Forecasts expect a weak manufacturing report in the Philadelphia region to cause the Federal Reserve to cut the benchmark interest-rate.
Michael Klawitter, a currency strategist at Dresdner Klienwort in [...]
General Electric Earnings Lower Than Expected
General Electric [GE] released it’s first quarter earnings data today. The earnings figures came out worse than expected which had a knock-on effect on the US dollar.
General Electrics share price fell over 11 percent today after the data was released.
GE blamed falling profits at its financial services businesses for the poor earning report.
The EURUSD pairing [...]
Gold Advances As Hedge
Traders saw a rise in the value of gold, silver and precious metal stocks. The weakening US dollar led to traders investing in gold as a way to hedge against the currency downturn.
Gold made it’s third straight quarterly gain, making it a consistent hedging commodity during times of market volatility and the general economic downwards [...]
RIM Shares Rise
Research In Motion (RIM:TOR) the Canadian company behind the successful BlackBerry device saw a sharp rise in share value yesterday after forecasts for subscription growth and strong sales over the holiday period.
Much of the success has been felt with the addition of devices aimed at non-Business users, such as the Blackberry Curve and BlackBerry Pearl [...]
GM Performing Outside The USA
GM (GM:NYQ) announced losses of $1.5bn last year in the US; the CEO Rick Wagoner revealed profits of $744 million in far east countries including China and India.
GM was organised as a company one hundred years ago in 1908, yet GM didn’t reach the Chinese market until 1992. This shows a sharp growth in a [...]
US Tech Stocks To Watch
Despite marked declines in the US Economy, the credit crunch crisis and poor performance on Wall Street, a number of Tech stocks have gone against the tide by performing well during these troubled times.
Forbes has a list of America’s 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies, with a breakdown of performances for each. The list is made up [...]
