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...second area that enjoys continued demand is energy, despite the recent collapse in oil prices. The McKinsey survey found that energy executives were bullish about the industry's chances for expansion, with 43% predicting a rise in staffing. Recruiters and analysts have been echoing this optimism as well. Notes Dan Clark, managing partner of EnergyHeadhunter, a Houston recruiter: "Most energy projects are large multi-year projects, much like a long train. The hiring you're seeing now relates to projects started a year ago, or more, before the decline in oil prices." Challenger concurs: "The energy sector remains a very...
...fundamentals. Well, we're in one of those periods. In fact, what's happening now is improving the fundamentals of commodities. Farmers cannot even get loans for fertilizer. Certainly no one is going to get a loan to open a zinc mine. Supply is going down - this is very bullish. We have a decline in demand, but the world is in recession. We presume that is a business cycle...
...strategy group Global Equities in Paris. Touati adds that recent developments - including American and European bail out plans for banking and financial systems valued together at over $4 trillion and the drop in oil prices and value of the euro - have given markets lots of reason to be bullish big time. "But they're are acting like spoiled kids throwing a tantrum: They've gotten gifts and excessive daily attention, but they just rant harder. Let's leave them a bit to work through it, calm down, and get back to normal...
...uncertainty, Weiss is sitting on more cash than ever before. One reason is that he expects further mayhem as leveraged hedge funds are hit increasingly hard by margin calls and shareholder redemptions, forcing them to sell investments to raise cash. Yet amid the panic, Weiss admits he's turning bullish: "People are freaking out, and it's a good time to make money when everybody is freaking out." One shell-shocked area where he's finding extraordinary bargains: illiquid funds with troubled investments in property. "You might very well lose all your money," says Weiss, "but there's a chance...
...topsy-turvy world of investing, Weiss's lesson is worth remembering: when nobody is afraid, be fearful; when everybody is afraid, be bullish. The trouble this time, he warns, is that "things could get a lot cheaper. You have to be able to stick...