Brazil’s economy stalled in the third quarter of this year, demonstrating the vulnerability
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BEIJING — Jian, a 42-year-old property developer in the booming southern metropolis of Shenzhen.
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Fitch Ratings sees a dip in India's economic growth and an increase in the fiscal deficit even as it expects the eurozone to continue to be volatile.
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Greece inched today towards clinching key debt and bailout funding deals as Italy prepared a major liberalisation programme.
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Warren Buffett has been moving his personal investments from safe Treasuries into U.S. stocks, he wrote in an opinion piece in Friday's New York Times.
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Financial head of research at Rabobank, Adrian Foster believes that the euro could fall below its lifetime lows to around 1.25 per dollar levels
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George Soros, the legendary investor, has warned that the European debt crisis could snowball into a something much bigger than the global financial meltdown in 2008, if it remains unresolved.
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When he speaks, global leaders and investors listen in rapt attention . But for a change on Thursday, when billionaire investor George Soros, who can make or break markets
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Prices of existing owner-occupied houses in the Netherlands were on average 3.3 percent lower in November 2011 than in November 2010.
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Greece's budget deficit continued to widen in November and the construction business kept shrinking as an austerity-fueled recession hit.
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Japan reported a government budget deficit equivalent to 7.40 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2009.
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The UK has the third biggest budget deficit in Europe, the EU’s official league table showed, placing it alongside the struggling nations engulfed in the eurozone’s debt crisis
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The U.S. budget gap widened slightly in fiscal 2011, staying above $1 trillion for a third straight year.
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Dubai's bourse slumped to a seven-year low as risk-wary investors sold stocks
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Cash-strapped Britons are cutting back on hotel stays, switching from cars to public transport and avoiding home improvements to save money as recession fears bite
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Gold fell to a three-week low on Monday, after a rise in the dollar prompted enough selling to push the bullion price through a key level of support
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As the U.S. and Europe have struggled with debt, China has seemed to be largely immune.
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Italy holds the key to the euro's survival, shouldering one-third of the region's first-quarter funding burden
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That Europe's economy is in shambles is a surprise to no one at this point.
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India’s industrial output tumbled in October for the first time in more than two years
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Investing Yourself in Your Investments
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When it comes to the financial markets and investing in them, one of the biggest mistakes that people make is that they fail to make the effort to know what they are doing. They are playing the market without knowing what the difference between a put and a call. They have no idea what a butterfly or straddle is. Nor do they know the difference between going short and going long. Forget about being inexcusable, this is unforgivable.
Do your homework. Spend some time doing the research and understand what you are doing.
You’d be excused for thinking this is a rookie error but sadly it’s not. It’s one of the problems why Wall Street fared so badly in the second half of 2008. Many people were doing things they didn’t truly understand. Overleveraging was a massive problem as was sub-prime lending. People were happy to cash the profits but weren’t too concerned what the cost of them was.
The same thing happened with Barings Bank and Nick Leeson. When he was making unauthorized speculative trades this was ok because his £10 million profits accounted for about a tenth of Barings annual income. He received a bonus two and a half times his annual salary. But when things went south and losses grew to over £200 million they turned his back on him.
You don’t normally hear the sob stories because no one wants to tell them. Everyone only brags about how well they did. But one has to truly appreciate the risks of playing the market. Like anything the potential ups equal the downs and one has to be prepared for both outcomes.
The problem is when people look for short cuts and like most things, you can’t rush things. You just have to let them be and let things take their natural course. If you don’t have any patience, than the financial markets definitely aren’t for you. The same if you are worrier. Do you really want to be logged in to your computer or Blackberry every second of the day monitoring your portfolio and seeing how much money you’ve gained or lost in the last 80 seconds?
Investing is meant to be a step to take care of you at the end of your life. It’s meant to take your worries away. It isn’t meant to be the source of your worries.
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