Take a deep breath and relax. Today’s issue of the Daily Reckoning is not about the Reserve Bank. Maybe it will raise the cash rate to 4.75% tomorrow and maybe it won’t. But frankly we are tired of pretending to take the RBA seriously as it pretends to know how to perfectly manage the price of money. Instead, then, let’s talk about the upcoming float of Queensland Rail. It’s a great exercise in understanding how to value assets and why the private sector manages better than the public sector.
October 4th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "share"
Strength in Weakness
If you haven’t sorted out whether gold shares or gold coins or gold bullion should be part of your investment strategy, you still have time to think about it and do something, if that’s what you decide. One reason you have time is that one of the strength’s of gold’s current move is that central banks are buying it instead of selling it.
September 28th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Why Central Bankers should keep you up at night
Another day, another elegantly crafted article assuring you that the central planners have it all under control. This time it’s Ian Verrender at Business Day explaining how central banks can now save our economy from another 2008 style crash. (The one they caused.) He concludes it won’t work…
September 24th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
Moral Condemnation for Traders
In the recent copy of Golf Digest, sitting on the coffee table in your editor’s hotel room, we happened on a two page ad for the SPDR Gold Exchange Traded Fund. It’s a pretty add, with lots of gold in it. The headline says, “Gold has a reputation for preserving wealth. Then again, we’re only going back 5,000 years.” There must be a lot of rich golfers out there. Gold made a new high when the December futures contract traded at $1,273.20.
September 15th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
Stealing Calories From the Future
Hmm. Let’s see. Last time BHP Billiton made a tilt at a high-profile, big money acquisition, the whole world went pear-shaped. As the statisticians say, correlation is not causation. But M&A activity seems to pick up when company directors have run out of other ways to increase earnings. It does not always work out well for shareholders. Case in point, BHP’s shares are down today by 3.5%. In case you missed it, Marius Klopper’s outfit made a $43 billion bid for Canadian firm Potash.
August 18th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
The Fertilizer Crisis
One of the world’s most important fertilizers is in short supply. That fertilizer is potash. One of the first things people change as they emerge from poverty is their diet. They move toward more meat and a greater variety of fruits and vegetables. But the web of food production shivers and shakes in the short term in response to economic pressures.
July 20th, 2010 | Chris Mayer | 0 comments | Continued
