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Have a read of this article
http://www.theage.com.au/news/busin...f-rollercoaster/2007/09/08/1188783556754.html
Particularly interested in these comments-
"We will see the predictable knee-jerk response...." &
"A survey of brokers' stock forecasts for the next 12 months predict the S & P/Asx 200 will gain 17.7%."
Has anyone seen Henry Paulson trying to put a positive spin on the jobs data?
Check this out, i really felt sorry for him, he's really sounding desperate here....and this coming from the once, top gun at Sachs.
http://www.bloomberg.com/index.html?Intro=intro3
Second vid on the left.
Cheers,
ROFL!I was hoping the reporter would take to his stupid bald head with the microphone then strangle him with the cord until he confessed that he is a bald faced, stupid lying c*&t. But that's just me.
Yes saw that and was almost going to start a thread about it. What an absolute jibbering idiot, notice how the moron completely avoids answering any of the tough questions and resorts to the same platitudes and generalizations he's been parroting for the last 6 months. How someone this utterly incompetent can keep his job is amazing - then again look who is leading the country.
I had the complete opposite reaction to you. I was hoping the reporter would take to his stupid bald head with the microphone then strangle him with the cord until he confessed that he is a bald faced, stupid lying c*&t. But that's just me.
promise him all the oil in Iraq or something?
Has anyone seen Henry Paulson trying to put a positive spin on the jobs data?
Check this out, i really felt sorry for him, he's really sounding desperate here....and this coming from the once, top gun at Sachs.
http://www.bloomberg.com/index.html?Intro=intro3
Second vid on the left.
Cheers,
Most Banks have not declared their potential sub-prime losses and until this is done the credit-crunch is set to stick around.
The credit crisis could just be beginning
By Jon D Markman
Satyajit Das is laughing. It appears I have said something very funny, but I have no idea what it was. My only clue is that the laugh sounds somewhat pitying. One of the world’s leading experts on credit derivatives (financial instruments that transfer credit risk from one party to another), Das is the author of a 4,200-page reference work on the subject, among a half-dozen other tomes. As a developer and marketer of the exotic instruments himself over the past 30 years, he seemed like the ideal industry insider to help us get to the bottom of the recent debt crunch ”” and I expected him to defend and explain the practice. I started by asking the Calcutta-born Australian whether the credit crisis was in what Americans would call the “third inning.” This was pretty amusing, it seemed, judging from the laughter. So I tried again. “Second inning?” More laughter. “First?” Still too optimistic. Das, who knows as much about global money flows as anyone in the world, stopped chuckling long enough to suggest that we’re actually still in the middle of the national anthem before a game destined to go into extra innings. And it won’t end well for the global economy.
sassa said:My financial planner has just pulled me in to reorganise my portfolio.He forecasts 5400 by Xmas and could even be as low as 5100.I have enjoyed a period of excellent growth-I entered 4 years ago when the market was 3800.
By Xmas was the prediction.He is like all stock market players and investors-he hopes his hunch is correct.There are plenty in the same boat just as there are plenty in the 7000 one.They all have reasons for their prediction and the nagging question to all investing is-Which way will the market go?My money is my own.I would not like to be a margin player or one who has not taken some defensive position in these uncertain times.I hope you sacked your financial planner and have a new one
By Xmas was the prediction.He is like all stock market players and investors-he hopes his hunch is correct.There are plenty in the same boat just as there are plenty in the 7000 one.They all have reasons for their prediction and the nagging question to all investing is-Which way will the market go?My money is my own.I would not like to be a margin player or one who has not taken some defensive position in these uncertain times.
Well I guess its closer to 7000, than 5400. I also don't see too much in the line of doom and gloom. So lets raise our glasses and toast to 7000 by Xmas
Reviewing your first post establishing this thread and noting you had at that stage pulled your funds out of the market, I would be interested to know if and when you returned to the market and whether you ended up in front of the position you would have been in if you had not been so convinced then that the end of the bull run was nigh.Firstly, as the name says, I am a firm believer in Buffetts investment methadology. For this, I currently need to see the end of this bull.
Companies are currently overvalued, and the market has been a bull market for the past few years. Very similar to the 87 crash situation, the market was a bull market from 82-87 from the top of my head, a very similar length of time to the current climate. However, baby boomers pouring invesment dollars into the market, trying to gain as large returns as they can before their retirements, is definately a factor of which will maintain a sturdy bull market for the near future.
I have currently pulled all my funds out of the stock market, waiting for this bull to end, though I think we might see more of a flattening out of the market over the next year or two, as opposed to a drastic crash. I would LOVE to see a crash, as these current bond returns I am receiving are pathetic when looking at the compounding rate of return over the next couple of years.
What are your opinions on the current overheated market, and when do you think this could end? Do you see a crash, or a flattening out?
Reviewing your first post establishing this thread and noting you had at that stage pulled your funds out of the market, I would be interested to know if and when you returned to the market and whether you ended up in front of the position you would have been in if you had not been so convinced then that the end of the bull run was nigh.
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