One way is through ETF : Market Vectors ETF Trust (GDX)
The shares of large gold producers are leveraged to the gold price. Put simply their operating costs stay relatively unchanged so when the gold price moves up you get the whole marginal profit to leverage the share price and that movement will usually be [...]
Archive for June 7th, 2007
Investing in Gold through Mining Stocks
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Marc Faber on US Markets
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U.S. stocks are more “reasonably priced” than other markets following the dollar’s decline, according to Marc Faber. U.S. stocks are not the biggest bubble. Emerging markets and the Spanish property market reflect larger bubbles, he said. There are bubbles across asset classes, but it’s difficult to predict when they will deflate, Faber said. “We’re in [...]
Criticims to Private Equity
Posted in Business on June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Interest payments are tax deductible, but dividends are not. This attack seems unconvincing: interest deductibility does help highly leveraged firms more than most, but borrowing money is hardly an option just limited to private-equity ones.
Gentler tax treatment of capital gains than annual income. People in private-equity firms receive a large part of their pay in [...]
India’s Inflation Problem
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The Economist nails it ….
The Indian rupee has surged by 10% against the dollar since March to a nine-year high. The jump in the rupee reflects an abrupt change in policy by the RBI. Until March the central bank was intervening heavily to hold the currency down. But the large amounts of dollars it was forced [...]
Interesting Statistic on Carbon Emissions
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From Economist …
Non-compete clauses don’t really work
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Successive court judgements in India have shown that the judiciary does not back the non-compete clauses as they impose an undue restriction on the personal freedom of a contracting party and interferes with free trade.Despite such adverse judgements, companies have not stopped including such clauses in employment contracts in a bid to stem the average [...]
