Archive for 'Commodities' Category

Roubini bullish on everything! Psych!

4 October 2009 by Christopher Suleske

NOURIEL Roubini states the (I think) obvious:
“Markets have gone up too much, too soon, too fast,” Roubini said in an interview in Istanbul on Oct. 3. “I see the risk of a correction, especially when the markets now realize that the recovery is not rapid and V-shaped, but more like U- shaped. That might be [...]

Excellent unadvertised counsel (the ideal sort)

1 July 2009 by Christopher Suleske

I am still processing this read. It’s an interview with Ray Dalio, a well-respected Chief Investment Officer with an excellent track record. More importantly, he pulled out nearly 10% gains last year because he’s been on the watchful end of our economic situation. He appears to know what he’s talking about and [...]

With so many fat ladies around, here’s hoping none of them can sing!

26 October 2007 by Christopher Suleske

WORD is one of the few financial minds I really respect, Jim Rogers, is so down on the dollar that he’s out of all dollar-denominated holdings. I’ll make a point of checking my retirement allocations again tomorrow. Quite a bit has been in gold and foreign equities and we have profited.
So why is [...]

I’m not saying to get out of U.S. stocks…

13 June 2007 by Christopher Suleske

BUT get out of U.S. stocks.
Please note that this is not investment counsel – not from me, at least.
I do not know everything. I only purport to recognize bunk and I’ve seen a lot of it.
Investments in which I continue to see growth: gold, foreign equities (foreign, as in nations not steeped in public [...]

How to profit from slumping “X”

11 September 2006 by Christopher Suleske

“X” is whatever – markets, commodities, equties, bonds, indicies, currencies – anything tied to something liquid.
I read a bevy of contrarian / pessimistic / downright dystopian literature nearly daily. Some of it is better in its content, suspicions, assertions, and analysis than others. It’s always interesting, however. Some contrarians tend to be [...]

Speculators v. Investors

14 July 2006 by Christopher Suleske

Says Robert Kiyosaki in a recent piece about value investing (in equities and real estate):

Investors who buy a property to sell, often known as flippers, invest primarily for capital gains. This is often taxed at higher rates if they spend their gains instead of reinvesting their money; to me, these people are speculators, not investors.

and…

True [...]

Profiting from the U.S. oil shales?

30 June 2006 by Christopher Suleske

I received one of those e-mails today – you know the type, wherein the author is writing as if he’s out of breath. In this one, the author’s attempting to sell me on an investmest newsletter called The Oil Report, in which he promises to reveal to me the name of a company he [...]

Diversification

28 June 2006 by Christopher Suleske

Robert Kiyosaki has a good piece on diversification at Yahoo Finance today. He offers 2 reasons an investor might diversify:
1. Active vs. passive investing. There are active and passive investors. Warren Buffett is an active investor. Most people are not. Active investors should focus. Passive investors should diversify.
2. Risk. Some investments are riskier than [...]