Archive for June, 2010

* Nikkei speeds up slide after 9,200, near 50% retracement * Next targets seen around 9,000, then 8,500

We’ve only been in England since Friday afternoon. But during that brief time we’ve seen the country go from the shoulders of optimism to the ankles of pessimism.
On Friday afternoon and Saturday it was “England Expects”. An overused catchphrase first coined by Admiral Lord Nelson we think. Or was it the Duke [...]

After a massive 2% drop in the morning, the XJO managed to regain some ground by yesterday’s close. The S&P/ASX200 ended the day down by 1.02%, or 44 points, closing at 4,301.50.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average saw a selloff in the last hour of trade, with the Dow closing down 96 points to 9,774.02. [...]

Hello everyone.  Well it looks like MKHD didn’t have the kind of
day I was expecting.  I think it’s such a great company, it’s just
having a hard time getting some traction in my opinion because of the
markets being so choppy.  I think with a littl…

LONDON has struck a blow against its Asian rivals as one of the world’s largest goldminers says it will seek a listing in London.

GOLD finished with a small gain today after a European Central Bank tender ended up having a mixed impact on the metal.

Let me be straight with you: I didn’t own a single Chinese stock before 2008.
You may think that’s shocking, considering I’m the co-advisor of our Motley Fool Global Gains international-investing research service. But before 2008, Chinese stocks were …

If you follow growth stocks, small-cap stocks, China stocks, or some combination of the three (small-cap China growth, anyone?), chances are you noticed that VisionChina Media (Nasdaq: VISN) is down some 71% thus far this year
When a stock drops that …

STRIKING crane drivers at Woodside Petroleum’s $13 billion Pluto gas plant in Western Australia have been ordered to return to work.

FOR the past two days, Australia’s biggest mining bosses have spent hours in the wood-panelled, windowless, slightly claustrophobic cabinet suite.