April 2007 Archives

Martin Weiss, Ph.D. examines the global marketplace and the six giants leading the economy. In this issue of Money and Markets, Dr. Weiss discusses the high demand for natural resources due to the booming global economy.

Jupiter, Fla. (PRWEB) April 26, 2007 -- Martin Weiss, Ph.D. examines the global marketplace and the six giants leading the economy. In this issue of Money and Markets, Dr. Weiss discusses why China, India, Japan, Brazil, Australia and Canada continue to outperform the Dow.

Options University Presents the 1st Annual Online Trading & Investors Superconference 2007 with Leading Financial Experts on Wednesday, April 25 with Renowned Worldwide Financial Experts

On Wednesday, April 25, the media will have the rare opportunity to hear from the seven top financial trading experts - under the same roof and to conduct one-on-one interviews with experts in the field. Violent swings on Wall Street have prompted an 'Emergency Profit Protection Bootcamp', featuring seven of the world's top stock and options traders.

This week we will see the stock market grabbing most of the headlines as it cruises through 13,000 on the Dow. We are seeing a trend develop in the soft complex that is worth mentioning. We are seeing all but one of the major soft markets trending down which could be foretelling of an overall slowdown in the pace of growth commodities have enjoyed in recent years. Markets like OJ were leading indicators on the way up and are now likely to be leading indicators on the way down. This in no way implies that the commodity boom is over but rather just a normal correction or slowdown within a larger bull market.

SHANGHAI (Interfax-China) -- China aims to produce 193 million tonnes of oil and 92 billion cubic metres of natural gas by 2010, according to an energy blueprint released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on April 10.

While the target represents a mere 5% growth in oil output compared to last year, or 2.12% in annual growth, the gas target represents a 56% jump in natural gas production, necessitating growth of 12.6% a year.

NEW YORK, April 18, 2007 – Victoria Bay Asset Management, LLC and the American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) announced today the launch of the United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (UNG), an exchange traded security based on natural gas, which will list on the Amex under the ticker “UNG.”

Shield Plus LLC, a #1 ranked institutional investment adviser, registered as a CTA/CPO, is launching the Shield Plus 90, LP -- Alternative Energy & Inflation Fund. This Fund enables institutions and other accredited investors to participate directly in the alternative energy and inflation-related markets through a market-neutral investment approach.

By Jim Pickard

The arrival of real estate investment trusts (Reit) in the UK has prompted the biggest shake-up in the commercial property market for years. But Michael Marx, co-managing director of Development Securities, is non-plussed. "It hasn't changed anything for us," he comments. "What has changed? Nothing has changed."

Since the turn of the millennium, real estate has become one of the fastest growing investment sectors, not just in the United States but globally as well. The gospel of property investing has penetrated every corner of the world from mature economies to developing countries -- a result of the revolution in real estate investment vehicles created over the past two decades to meet investor demand.

Jesse Livermore, widely regarded as one of the greatest stock market operators of all-time, considered himself a humble student of the market until his last day in 1940. “I study the market, because it’s my business to trade. In the forty years which I have devoted to making speculation a successful business venture, I am still discovering new rules to apply to that business,” he once remarked.

“Experience has taught me the way a market behaves is an excellent guide for an operator to follow. Observation gives you the best tips of all, and the behavior of a certain market is all you need at times. You observe, and then experience shows you how to profit by variations from the usual, that is to say, from the probable.”

Offshore investment is an expression heard often, but not necessarily understood by the masses. Here is a breakdown of the definition of the phrase and some generalizations concerning it.

First of all, the term "offshore" indicates something being foreign or outside of the domestic territory of one of the G8. The G8 (Group of Eight) refers to the annual summit of the government heads of the eight most prominent nations in the world.

Much has been made recently about gold's use as a hedge against poor stock market returns. Unfortunately, this strategy has some holes in it. While it is true that gold tends to perform in the opposite direction as stocks during secular markets, it tends to perform similarly to stocks during shorter cyclical time periods.

Together with the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, everyone is talking about the huge opportunities opening up in China. As the Chinese government is liberalizing the economy, industries such as tourism, manufacturing and service are investing their revenue especially for the upcoming Olympic Games.

In 2006, 282 Mainland companies invested in Hong Kong, injecting more than US$2 billion into the Hong Kong economy, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) reported recently.

According to InvestHK, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government department charged with encouraging and facilitating inward investment into the city, Mainland companies are attracted by Hong Kong’s international business environment, attractive tax rates and fund-raising capabilities.

The Issue Is Not China’s Stock Markets – It’s the Model

By Scott B. MacDonald

In late February 2007, the global stock market meltdown started in Shanghai. As The New York Times noted on March 4, 2007:

“Less than a week ago, it might have seemed preposterous to suggest that a 9% fall in the Shanghai stock exchange could jolt markets across the world, triggering declines in everything from European stocks to American corporate bonds.”

Offshore banking has often been associated with the underground economy and organized crime, via tax evasion and money laundering; however, legally, offshore banking does not prevent assets from being subject to personal income tax on interest. Except for certain persons who meet fairly complex requirements, the personal income tax of most countries makes no distinction between interest earned in local banks and those earned abroad.