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Western Canadian farmland: Gold with a cash yield |
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Agcapita’s first farmland fund is finalizing its 2008 acquisition program in anticipation of the launch of a $50 million follow-on fund in late Q4 2008. With Jim Rogers on its advisory board, its plan for Western Canadian Farmland has gain more credibility. |
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Market turmoil: Stampede of fear into oil, gold |
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Current Outlook : weakness into 2009 ; commodity prices likely to be suppressed from equity outlook but may be trumped by stampede of fear into oil, gold, etc. Things are looking like a complete flight to safety - cash + gold -- forget useless bonds right now. |
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Market is like a rickety old bus on a mountain road |
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Markets have been lurching left and right like a rickety old bus careening down a dirt mountain road, with panicked investors hanging on to their seats for dear life. Over the past few weeks, we’ve had more volatility and more crisis than whole decades have seen in markets past. |
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Wild & beautiful: Commodity tourism beckons |
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Commodity Tourism, where fishing, tea, coffee, cardamom, wines or any commodity becomes a great resort theme. The novel industry in India has largely evolved out of innovative skills of entrepreneurs from hospitality and commodity business. |
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How Bank of America fooled investors |
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There were more than a few investors who were indeed fooled by Bank of America's smoke screen. BoA execs tried to sneak out the fact that third-quarter profits were down 68%. They have set aside an additional $6.45 billion against further mark-to-market losses. |
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Bric by Bric, it's falling apart! |
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The impact of global meltdown is slowly being felt in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India & China) nations. But the next round of bull run will take at least two years to start and will be driven by ‘Resources and Commodities’ boom in Africa and led by China. |
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Uncle Sam's pain is Shariah funds' gain |
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Global market meltdown had even caused a major rise in gold prices also as people rushed to buy gold following the global market meltdown.
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Will the BRIC nations spread a new Yellow Fever? |
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Many nations have huge foriegn exchange accumulated over the years in dollar-denominated assets. What if BRIC nations diversify 5% of their holdings into gold--it will create an additional demand for 5000 tonnes and set a bullish trend. |
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US Bailout: A reward to foolish business behaviour |
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Foolish business behavior was about to be rewarded, and propped up a little longer, the bubble blown a little bigger, and our coming Depression made that much greater, but then something happened on the way to the House floor. |
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Parachute: Marico's non-sticky,pure way to success |
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Marico now commands 56 percent of the organised coconut oil segment in India with its brands- Parachute, Nihar and Oil of Malabar. Thanks to Marico's efforts coconut oil has become well entrenched in Indian households and abroad. |
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Gold Rush intensifies even as commodities crash |
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Investors are back to the safe haven--gold--even as financial turmoil is sweeping across USA and Europe. In many nations, the demand for gold bars is unprecedented that they pay $25 per ounce above London spot rates to secure scarce bars. |
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Bailout to put US into hell worse than Great Depression |
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What could lie at the end of a bailout that could means trillions of dollars added to the deficit is a hell worse than what happened in the Great Depression. The debts for the bailouts so far add up to $1.6 trillion dollars. That is 12 percent of US GDP. |
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Can India take economic success to rural areas? |
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Unlike in many developed countries the success or the benefits of development were denied to millions of Indians residing in the rural areas. Very few percentage of elite class residing in big cities or towns took away creamy layers from it and leaves few scraps for the majority. |
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Power from waves to storm the world! |
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Scottish Power, a top company in the field, on Monday unveiled plans for the world’s biggest tidal power project and a factory to make tidal turbines. |
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Why Warren Buffett went for Goldman Sachs deal |
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Buffett puts together a fantastically, amazingly great deal for a piece of Goldman Sachs... a deal that is set to earn Berkshire billions in profit at near zero risk. The risk on the Goldman deal was zero as Buffett got a federal guarantee that Goldman would not be allowed to fail. |
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Prospects for FDI growth bright in emerging nations |
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The global economic slowdown has led to a slight decline in foreign direct investment, however, developing countries saw a rise of 21% to $500 bn due to increase in commodity prices and improved investment policies. |
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Is Henry Paulson another Julius Caesar? |
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The Paulson Proposal does exactly that: It places one man, secretary of the US Treasury Henry Paulson, above the law, the Congress, the courts and the electorate. It renders him Caesar. |
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India to witness hypermarkets boom! |
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India's organised retail is growing at 20 % annually. An ASSSOCHAM-KPMG study said that 315 hypermarkets will come up in most of tier I and tier II cities by 2011. The hypermarkets will sell anything from automobiles to needles under one roof. |
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The charm of Paper Gold! |
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India's five Gold ETFs had a tough start in a market where investors still cling on to physical gold. However, going by the returns posted during the past one year there is no reason why investors should not allocate part of their portfolio for 'Paper Gold.' |
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Rural banking: Field day for Indian banks |
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Indian banking industry has realised that it needs to reach out to rural and inaccessible areas using the latest technologies available if the policy of financial inclusion is to have any meaning thereby saving farmers from the clutches of moneylenders. |
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India's potential for GI registrations high |
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At present only 100 products have been registered under the Geographical Inidcations Registry in India. But there is potential for registering over 1000 products. Pochampally saree, Darjeeling tea, Basmati, Mysore Sandal are among the registered. |
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