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China, the World’s Largest Real Estate Market

High demand and continued price growth has seen China overtake the U.S. as the world’s biggest property investment market last year and will probably keep the lead in 2010 on economic growth and a lower reliance on debt, Cushman & Wakefield LLP said.
Real estate investment in China more than doubled to $156.2 billion last [...]

The huge mounting deficit in the USA will be very hard to fix

Recently, at a luncheon in Bangkok with a 2 of my colleagues the subject of the USA’s fiscal problem was the subject of our conversation, the following is a sketch of that discussion, as follows;
The huge federal budget deficit coupled with rising national debt of the United States is an uneasy issue in the [...]

Mickey D and GE bring hope with results

Two of America’s best-known companies posted better-than-expected results Friday, painting a more favorable picture of the global appetite for everything from hamburgers to healthcare products and services.

General Electric, a bellwether for the broader US economy, posted a sharp decline in profits in Q-4, but the results beat predictions and the company reassured investors it would return to [...]

US President Obama blasts US Supreme Court ruling

US President Barack Obama launched a attack on the US Supreme Court today, saying a ruling on corporate donations to political campaigns this week “strikes at democracy itself”.Obama’s salvo was triggered by a 5-4 ruling by the Court’s justices Thursday that removed long standing campaign finance limits and allowed corporations to spend freely in campaigns for [...]

Current US Stock Market Sentiment

                                                       MARKET SENTIMENT
 

VIX: 17.91; +0.28
VXN: 18.73; +0.53
VXO: 17.11; +0.53
Put/Call Ratio (CBOE): 0.82; +0.06

 
NB:  Are you watching the VIX?   It always tells us when we are moving back to a more rational market.
*The Market Volatility Index (VIX) measures the volatility of the market. A recent news story described it as “the options market’s gauge of [...]

What to expect this week and down the line…

Today the new year begins in earnest and the Holiday Season is officially over, all traders, investors and  players should be back in the action, no expiration, and  earnings season kicks off big time.
Thus it is fitting that the market (S&P 500) is tapping against the resistance; the September low of (1152)
 
Ditto for the NAS, [...]

Reds Gold, Silver and Forex

Comex Gold (GC)
 
The intra-day bias in Gold is neutral in here as sideway trading from 1163 is still in progress. With the 1119.2 support intact, another rise could be seen, and a move above 1163 will bring a stronger rebound into 1169.3/1227.5, the resistance zone. But the upside will likely be limited there, and bring [...]

Ebeling Heffernan Close $10m funding deal with NPWZ

The closing of this deal brings to $30m in deals that were set at the Ebeling Heffernan Road Show in Bangkok Thailand( http://www.livetradingnews.com/npwz-success-in-asia-and-the-usa.htm ). Road Show was a huge success and we look forward to the 2010 Road Show, our upcoming Green Show, The Charity Ball and many other events Ebeling Heffernan will host or sponsor [...]

Brazil stocks climb on Petrobras

Brazilian stocks closed higher on Monday as heavyweights Petrobras and Vale advanced, while the currency firmed slightly.
The benchmark Bovespa stock index .BVSP added 0.61 percent to 69,400.93 after having dropped a cumulative 2 percent over the two previous sessions.
Brazil’s currency, the real (BRBY), firmed 0.28 percent to 1.768 per U.S. dollar in thin trading due [...]

China says: “Web open, and welcomes International companies.”

China’s Internet is open, and welcomes international companies, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said last week, two days after Google issued a statement saying it may quit China. Spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular news briefing that China encouraged development of the Internet.
“China’s Internet is open,” said Jiang. “China has tried creating a favorable environment for [...]