Word: stockmarket
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...watch the central bank has made the right moves on interest rates, successfully keeping inflation low (and, just as importantly, inflationary expectations), while the economy (now in its 14th consecutive year of growth) has experienced the longest expansion in output since quarterly measures began in 1959. With a booming stockmarket, a strong dollar, buoyant commodity prices and an unemployment rate that could soon fall below 5%, Macfarlane faced a parliamentary committee last Friday to explain the bank's actions, statements and thinking. For "Big Mac", as close to a rock star in local financial circles as you could...
...Kirch empire?s main arms, KirchMedia already holds a 53.5% stake in ProSiebenSat.1, and is expected to merge with that company should a planned stockmarket float go ahead later this year. But another subgroup, KirchBeteiligungs, holds a 40% interest in Axel Springer. Why would Kirch permit a company in which it has such a sizable stake to cause it so much potential inconvenience? One theory is that the Springer family wants to reacquire shares in their company that Kirch bought in the late 1980s during a failed takeover attempt, and are exercising the "put" option as an arm-twisting tactic...
Myth number one: Now is not a good time to invest. We're not in a recession, but if everyone is acting as if we are, that opens up great opportunities in the stockmarket. With the NASDAQ trading at just over 2000 right now, bargains abound. In fact, buying growth stocks at the bottom of an economic cycle is one of the best time-tested methods for beating the market. The legendary investor Warren Buffett, speaking to Fortune magazine during the deep recession of 1974, told stunned interviewers that he was buying every solid company in sight. "I feel like...