‘Slipstreaming’ is a cycling metaphor that fits perfectly with what I do in the markets. If you’ve ever watched a big cycle race, like the Tour de France, you’ll know that the key to winning a stage is timing: knowing when to sit in the ‘slipstream’ of the rider in front of you (letting them do the hard work) and knowing which points in the race to attack.
September 16th, 2010 | Murray Dawes | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Slipstream"
Speculators and Chinese Firms Accumulating Australian Resource Companies and Commodities
And while China and America bicker over currencies, Chinese firms are scrambling to buy real assets. And while Aussie banks source foreign borrowing to lend in local real estate, Aussie mining firms go begging for bits of capital that would bring world-class ore bodies (and key strategic resources) into production…by local producers and owners.
November 19th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
A Deep-water Oil Find Off the Coast of West Africa
About twenty minutes later we found ourselves tucked away in Café Paradis reading about the latest deep-water oil find off the coast of West Africa. The positive drilling results in the Venus well off the coast of Sierra Leone are not far from the Jubilee field Ghana, which is Africa’s largest deep-water oil field. It could be, so the experts say, the next big off-shore oil bonanza.
September 18th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
