Word: stocked
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...seems a little bit out of your usual line. Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them. My broker says I'm in the top 1% of fund managers with the results I've been having...
...Your book takes a fairly wide view of personal finance. Are some of these rules and pieces of advice things that you yourself use in investing? Some of them. What's in the book is for everybody, but primarily for the people who are not exactly sophisticated in the stock market and are wondering, What do I do with my house and my mortgage? How do I send my kids to school? How do budget principles work? It's basically what would be confronting the average person in the country. (Read "How to Invest for an Economic Rebound...
...their buildings are being used to house refugees.) "The Taliban took over the food shops and changed the locks," says Mohammad Ali, 30, who used to sell clothes in Mingora's main bazaar. "They occupied a high school to make their base there. In the town there was a stock of wheat flour that had arrived for us from the government of Punjab. The Taliban took that over also. They stole government vehicles for their...
Inevitably, though, the laws of economics have reasserted themselves. Since oil prices plummeted, and world stock markets crashed last fall, some $75 billion worth of real estate projects have been suspended and canceled in Dubai, according to a report by the local branch of HSBC bank. Business journal the Middle East Economic Digest puts the figure at more than $300 billion. Postponed developments include the World, a luxury man-made island community designed to resemble a world map, and Dubailand, a theme park planned to be twice the size of Florida's Disney World. Housing prices have fallen...
...sure, the two stock market slumps in 2006 and 2008 created negative wealth effects. High-net-worth businessmen have been hit by the current global financial crisis. But there is no doubt that the macroeconomic picture is solid and healthy. Over the next five years Saudi Arabia has outlined a $400 billion spending program. In a decade or thereabouts, Saudi Arabia will become a $1 trillion economy and will be better placed than the rest in the region to capitalize on its knowledge and strengths. During the boom years, some critics said Saudi Arabia should become more like Dubai...