The old investment adage goes ‘buy low and sell high’ regardless of whether the investment is real estate, stocks or rare birds! The problem, however, is that unless you happen to be a seer it is virtually impossible to consistently buy the bottom and/or sell the top of a market move. In fact, for an […]
Imagine a concert venue with general admission seating, a famous band, and one small door to get inside. The result would likely be catastrophic! Is a similar scenario brewing only this time in the financial markets, bonds in particular? For the fund managers and other institutional investors who hold trillions of dollars of fixed income […]
Or will it be another one of history’s examples of bulls and bears making money and of PIIGS being slaughtered? In other words is the liquidity angst being felt at one of Portugal’s largest banks an isolated event or a sign that trouble may loom on the horizon for the EU as a whole? That was […]
Since the worst days of the economic crisis in 2008-2009 the statistics presented by the media concerning the level of new foreclosure filings in New York have indicated that borrowers are on the mend and that the tidal-wave effect of the financial crisis was over! But is this actually correct? For those of us whose […]
