Archive for July, 2009

Bank Stock Outlook: Will First-Half Gains Give Way to Second-Half Pain?

Submitted by Bapcha’s Stocks

Posted on July 29th, 2009 in BAC, BB&T Corp, BBT, BK, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, C, COF, Capital One Financial, Citigroup, FTB, Fifth Third, JPM, JPMorgan Chase, PNC, PNC Financial, RF, Regions Financial, STI, STT, State Street Corp., SunTrust, US Bancorp, USB, WFC, Wells Fargo BAC, Bank of [...]

Four Ways to Profit if Bernanke’s ‘Exit Strategy’ Backfires

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The Three Reasons China Will Lead the Global Rebound

Submitted by Bapcha’s Stocks
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Unlike the West – which views the financial crisis as a burden, a mistake, or a bad dream to [...]

Eight Ways to Profit From Japan’s Game-Changing Election

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Hot Stocks: Three Reasons Apple is Bucking the Recession

Submitted by Bapcha’s Stocks
Is high-tech stalwart Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) bucking the worst downturn since the Great Depression?
It sure looks that way.

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Will There Be Apple Netbook? (LongShortTrader, 7/22/09)

Apple Stock (Wealth Daily, 7/23/09)

Hot Stocks: Three Reasons Apple is Bucking the Recession (Money Morning, 7/23/09)

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Airbus Deal Shows Investors That China Profits Are Cleared For Takeoff

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Individual investors who still hold any doubts about Mainland China’s future growth potential should take a long hard look at Airbus SAS, the [...]

How to Profit From China’s “Hot Money” Strategy

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China made headlines around the world this week when it revealed that its foreign reserves had eclipsed the $2 trillion market for the first time, rising by a record $178 billion in the second quarter [...]

Gold as a currency is dead. [Rehash of an older article].

Submitted by Bapcha’s Stocks
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With the global economy on the mend, could gold be gearing up for another record-setting run? Not a chance says Bapcha. His bottom-line is – wear it, enjoy it, buy it for fun, but do not invest in gold. [...]

With Inflation on the Horizon, Gold Prices are Ready to Rally

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With the global economy on the mend, could gold be gearing up for another record-setting run? While Jason Simpkins of Money Morning thinks so, we [...]

Uk - faster access to innovative drugs?

Submitted by THE HEALTH ECONOMICS BLOG
from The Daily Telegraph
Drug industry keen on new NHS trials
Britain’s drug industry has welcomed Government plans to trial new drugs ahead of approval by the regulatory body as having the potential to deliver “a truly transformational change”.
By Graham Ruddick
Published: 6:31PM BST 14 Jul 2009
The Office for Life Sciences (OLS), led [...]

India’s Budgetary Woes Are a Warning to Global Investors

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When India unveiled its annual budget on July 6, it immediately caused a sharp drop in the rupee, as well as a 5.8% decline in the benchmark BSE Sensex stock index that had soared 55% so far this year.

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Indian CEOs better than their [...]

Investors Looking to Tech to Pull U.S. Stocks – and the Economy – Out of Their Doldrums

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Technology is probably the sector that will pull the US economy out of the doldrums.

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How Japan’s Unlikely Shareholder Rebellion Could Lead to Profit Plays for Western Investors

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Posted on July 1st, 2009 in Akio, Akio Toyoda, Aso, Bloomberg, Brandes, Chrysler Group, Chrysler LLC, Japan, Katsuaki Watanabe, Koito, Koito Manufacturing, Nagoya, Nipponkoa, Nipponkoa Insurance, Nomura, Nomura Securities, Rohm, Shareholder revolt, Shoichiro Toyoda, T. Boone Pickens, Taro Aso, Toyoda, Toyota, Watanabe, samurai Akio, Akio Toyoda, Aso, Bloomberg, Brandes, Chrysler Group, Chrysler [...]

Is George Soros Long or Wrong on the Global Rebound?

Submitted by Bapcha’s Stocks

Posted on July 1st, 2009 in George Soros, Jim Rogers, Quantum Fund, Soros, World Economy George Soros, Jim Rogers, Quantum Fund, Soros, World Economy
Billionaire investor George Soros thinks the worst of the global financial crisis is behind us.
In a June 20 interview with Polish television, the Hungarian-born Soros acknowledged that this has [...]