What are sovereign wealth funds? They are the assets of sovereign countries that have been earned. Instead of holding them in government bonds as they once did countries are investing part of the money in stocks and commodities on a global basis.
The Saturday, May 26 Financial Times devoted a large section to an issue I [...]
Today, Morgan Stanley put out a number of comprehensive analyses discussing the demand for commodities and the outlook for some mining companies. In short, they remain bullish on many, but not all base metals and energy commodities, and the main reason is demand from China.
Those of you who have followed us for the last several [...]
Although temporarily painful, market corrections are a healthy development. Rising markets, that periodically correct, and climb the proverbial wall of worry, last longer and rise higher.
The current market correction in metals, energy and stocks is a normal one; and we have expected it. Accordingly, we have built a large cash position which [...]
THE BACKGROUND
The decline in the mortgage bond market has spread, and has begun to affect other bonds, U.S. stocks and commodities. Many commentators in the papers and on TV have pontificated about the events and how they are connected to this typical bond market correction.
Let us look at the problem and see how it [...]
WE HAVE BEEN PREDICTING THAT DERIVATIVES WERE A POTENTIAL MESS FOR MANY YEARS
Surprise, the hedges that some failed speculators in the bond market have put on, failed to act in the way that they were mathematically supposed to act. This is according to Sowood, the failed Boston based, bond speculating hedge fund.
For years, we [...]
Md. Wasim Aktar
Deptt. of Agril. Chemicals, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India.
The Muslim scientists studied deeply the fundamental questions of physics. For instance Ibn Sina made a profound study of such phenomena as force, motion, light, heat, vacuum, etc. A great progress was made in theoretical and applied mechanics. Useful work was [...]
How often have you attended a presentation where great attention apparently went into designing the slides – and apparently none into how they were used? Or the speaker played with the slides as if to entertain rather than edify?
Such idiosyncratic presentation techniques have helped give rise to the calumnious phrase “death by PowerPoint”. PowerPoint and [...]
NEWS-SEEKING PATTERNS OF ACADEMICIANS AND ADMINISTRATORS OF ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
BY MALIK TARIQ MALIK
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INTRODUCTION
Media play a major role in the lives of people all over the world in this global age. Print media is more worthy and trustful source of information in Pakistan. In the Pakistan the readership of daily newspapers is higher.
The researcher [...]
A blog is actually short for web log. A blog is a website that displays entries in reverse chronological order. The term blog could also be a verb, which would mean to add content or maintain a blog.
A lot of blogs today provide news or commentary or general information about a specific subject, while others [...]
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 Earlier today, I had my on-air audition to be the Next Commentator on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show.” You can listen to my commentary here The person selected to be the next voice “to elevate, educate, entertain and inform black America” will have a platform that is [...]