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Intimidated by Inflation, Gulf States Consider Cutting Ties with Dollar
2008-05-02 17:22:00
Even with a bit of a rebound, of late, the dollar is down more than 7% against the euro in the past six months, 12% in the past 12 months and nearly 28% in the last 54 months. The decline has been so drastic countries that have pegged their currencies to the beleaguered greenback are beginning to consider alternatives. But Gulf States , particularly, have been torched by the dollar’s decline. About 18% of inflation in the United Arab Emirates is caused by the Gulf state’s currency peg to the dollar, Emirates Business 24/7 reported, citing the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s senior economist. The U.A.E.’s inflation rate is about 12%, the report said. Inflation has risen to 10% in Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s consumer prices rose 14% in the fourth-quarter, Bloomberg News reported. In an interview with Bloomberg, Kuwaiti Finance Minister Mustafa al-Shimali acknowledged that several Gulf States are considering abandoning the peg even though the United Arab Emirates a...
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VIDEO: Top Energy Play
2008-05-02 17:05:00
January 30, 2008 — January Market Crash — This was just a prelude to the Global Crisis of 2009 (0) ShareThis
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Sink or Swim: Marine industry options play
2008-05-02 17:02:00
Sometimes it is hard not to get attached to an industry. As the economy slows and takes it to new lows, it can feel quite personal. If not properly managed, an intimate connection to an industry can be detrimental to a portfolio. It can also be a great moneymaking tool. All of my life, I have been connected to the boating industry. From the first time I shot across the bay in a 12-foot aluminum skiff to the day I finally backed my own sportfish into its slip, boating has been a major part of my life. So when I see some of the nation’s best boat builders and marine-industry manufacturers having a rough go of things, it hurts. But I also see lots of profit potential. Man the life rafts Almost everywhere I look, boaters are scrambling to get out of the water. Fuel prices are making it a rich-man’s sport. Boats are for sale. Docks are for rent. And the industry that supports it all is going under. One of the largest players in the boating industry is Brunswick (BC:NYSE). Wh...
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Agri-Biotech Giant Monsanto Moves into its Newest Venture: Biofuels From Pr
2008-05-01 18:20:00
Agricultural-biotech giant Monsanto Co. (MON) is already a global leader in the development of genetically engineered crop seeds. Now the St. Louis-based firm is exploring the potential for biofuels, one of the hottest sectors in the alternative energy realm. Monsanto and the Hayward, Calif.-based Mendel Biotechnology Inc. have joined forces to study how certain prairie grasses could ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Agri-Biotech Giant Monsanto Moves into its Newest Venture : Biofuels From Prairie Grasses", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/05/01/agri-bi otech-giant-monsanto-moves-into-its-newes t-venture-biofuels-from-prairie-grasses/" });
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Corn Rises for Eighth Straight Month, Pitting Ethanol Use Against Global Hu
2008-05-01 17:33:00
Against a backdrop of soaring worldwide food prices, riots over shortages and controversies about food crops being diverted for biofuels, U.S. corn prices jumped another 7% in April, the eighth-straight monthly advance. And the worst may be yet to come: Despite the rocketing price of corn and calls to step up production of corn-based ethanol, farmers ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Corn Rises for Eighth Straight Month , Pitting Ethanol Use Against Global Hunger", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/05/01/corn-ri ses-for-eighth-straight-month-pitting-eth anol-use-against-global-hunger/" });

Take-Two Banks on Gruesome ?Grand Theft Auto? Sales in Fending Off EA Bid
2008-05-01 16:55:00
The jury is still out on whether or not Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.?s (TTWO) “Grand Theft Auto IV” has met analysts? expectations in outselling Microsoft Corp.?s (MSFT) marquee “Halo 3,” a game that set sales records last September. But if “GTA4” does meet with the commercial and critical success that?s been so highly anticipated, it ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Take-Two Banks on Gruesome ?Grand Theft Auto? Sales in Fending Off EA Bid", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/05/01/take-tw o-banks-on-gruesome-%e2%80%9cgrand-theft- auto%e2%80%9d-sales-in-fending-off-ea-bid /" });
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With a Rate Decision, GDP Report Due Today, the Fed Walks the High Wire Aga
2008-04-30 18:35:00
If U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers make the expected quarter-point rate cut at the end of their meeting today (Wednesday), the impact will be felt well beyond U.S. borders. Indeed, the interest-rate reduction could set in motion a series of diverse global events that will impact such seemingly unrelated areas as European inflation, global food prices, the ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "With a Rate Decision , GDP Report Due Today , the Fed Walks the High Wire Again", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/30/with-a- rate-decision-gdp-report-due-today-the-fe d-walks-the-high-wire-again/" });

India and Iran Plan Move Gas Project Forward Despite U.S. Reservations
2008-04-30 18:23:00
After a visit to Sri Lanka, Iran ian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stopped off in India yesterday (Tuesday) to put the finishing touches on an agreement that will bring Iranian gas to Pakistan and India through a $7.6 billion pipeline. The 1,615-mile pipeline will transport 30 million cubic meters of natural gas to Pakistan and India ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "India and Iran Plan Move Gas Project Forward Despite U.S. Reservations ", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/30/india-a nd-iran-plan-move-gas-project-forward-des pite-us-reservations/" });
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Housing Slump Continues?
2008-04-30 18:08:00
Housing prices continue to fall in 20 major metropolitan areas, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index released yesterday (Tuesday). The index dropped 12.7% in February from a year ago, a bigger drop than was anticipated and the largest decline since the index?s inception in 2001. The index has had back-to-back monthly declines since January 2007 as ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Housing Slump Continues…", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/30/housing -slump-continues/" });
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Mineral Rights: Landowners are getting rich
2008-04-30 17:00:00
With food and energy prices making climbs higher and higher nearly every day, somebody must be getting rich. But who? The gas stations claim they can barely get by. Farmers are protesting their own rising costs. And Exxon Mobil shareholders have little to smile about. Share price has barely risen ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mineral Rights : Landowners are getting rich", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/30/mineral -rights-landowners-are-getting-rich/" });
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?Dire Inflation Outlook? for the EU and Sluggish Growth Add to ECB Woes
2008-04-29 18:30:00
The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, said yesterday (Monday) that Eurozone growth would continue to erode throughout 2008 and 2009. But here?s the wild card: Inflation is actually expected to accelerate for the rest of this year and much of next - even in the face of declining growth - until ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "?Dire Inflation Outlook ? for the EU and Sluggish Growth Add to ECB Woes", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/29/%e2%80% 9cdire-inflation-outlook%e2%80%9d-for-the -eu-and-sluggish-growth-add-to-ecb-woes/" });

The Fed?s Dilemma: Rescue the Housing Market, or Feed the Poor?
2008-04-29 16:32:00
At their two-day meeting that starts today (Tuesday), U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers will have to grapple with a moral choice that is well beyond the pay grade of central bankers - choosing between the financial stability of U.S. homeowners and world hunger. That?s not an exaggeration. Interest-rate policy normally only affects the world economy at the ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Fed?s Dilemma : Rescue the Housing Market , or Feed the Poor?", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/29/the-fed %e2%80%99s-dilemma-rescue-the-housing-mar ket-or-feed-the-poor/" });

United States to the World: Be Careful What You Wish For
2008-04-29 09:00:00
Do you hear the calls for a challenge to U.S. power? It is everywhere these days. Now that the Soviet Cold War threat has dissolved, who needs the United States to fend off the bullies in the global playground. Those who believe that economic prosperity and life will continue to be merry without U.S. leadership ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "United States to the World : Be Careful What You Wish For", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/29/united- states-to-the-world-be-careful-what-you-w ish-for/" });
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Note to the Federal Government: Leave the Price-Setting to the Market
2008-04-28 21:10:00
Those unfamiliar with marketplace dynamics may not recognize how government activity has created price distortions across our economy. But when these “artificial” chains fail to restrain the market, the underlying forces become easier to see. Much as the easy credit mandated by the government propelled home prices to bubble levels, similar forces pushed college tuitions up into the stratosphere. Both systems are currently breaking down along similar lines. In light of the staggering cost of college education today, it may seem unbelievable that, in the early 1950s, my father was able to finance his own education by spending the summer waiting tables. Like most in his generation, eight weeks of work per year allowed him to graduate debt free. In contrast, the debt load borne by today’s college graduates is so oppressive that the financial challenges are becoming a palpable psychological strain on an entire generation. The irony is that, without easy access to stud...
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New Technology: NTT redefines touch screen
2008-04-28 19:30:00
You always knew you had an electric personality, and now a Japanese tech company agrees with you. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT: NYSE) just started selling sample kits of Firmo, the first human-transmitter authentication system. New Technology : Touch ing skin turns on your touch screen What exactly does that mean? Firmo is an ID card, but the technology could be adapted to any small electronic device. The important part is that the card sends out a signal that uses your skin to transmit. Yep, it turns your skin into a circuit board. Firmo transmits at about 230 kilobytes per second. To put that in perspective, your average MP3 file is about 3,000-5,000 kilobytes. So the speed isn’t going to astound anyone, and that’s probably why the company is, so far, only marketing Firmo as an access identification system. Like the trusty keycard RFID system that probably figures into one or more areas of your life at the moment (I don’t know about you, but I have to use t...
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Don’t Let China’s Stock Market Slump “Decouple” You From its Massiv
2008-04-28 18:35:00
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: When Asia expert Keith Fitz-Gerald first returned to this country a week ago, he was overwhelmed by a single impression. “This place is one big construction site,” Fitz-Gerald said. “You cannot turn around without finding scaffolding, piles of materials, construction equipment and the like [no matter where you look] here.” With the U.S. economy suffering its worst downturn in years, and China’s stocks down more than 40% in the past six months, the bustle of construction-related activity in this Asian giant seems incongruous - if not downright contradictory. Surprisingly, it’s neither. This divergence between China’s ailing stock market and its still-spunky economy is an early manifestation of “economic decoupling” - an emerging trend being fueled by the globalization of worldwide markets. In fact, China’s ability to maintain its frenetic growth rate of nearly 11% per annum while the U.S. market could well ...
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Election 2008: U.S. Economy Cries “No mas” to the Democrats
2008-04-28 16:54:00
“Election 2008 ″ is an ongoing Money Morning series that looks for profit plays emanating from the presidential election campaign. In Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton achieved the absolute bare minimum she needed to prolong her battle against Barack Obama. And she still had a slight hope of somehow squeaking through to land the party nomination. But that’s not the “real” story here. In view of the irresponsible and damaging economic promises that are emerging from both contenders, the already-wheezing U.S. economy may be about to cry for mercy from the relentless and prolonged assault. And the longer the Democratic Primary War continues, the greater the fallout for the U.S. market. We all understand the dynamics of U.S. presidential politics. In the primaries, contenders make promises designed to appeal to the most-committed, core supporters of their party. Republicans promise tax cuts so massive that they...
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Weakening Dollar: Fly into some profits
2008-04-28 16:22:00
At least a dollar is still worth a dollar here in the United States, because throughout much of the world it is not worth nearly what it used to be. As of yesterday’s new record high, it will cost you $1.60 to buy a Euro. Thanks to rising inflation rates and the threat of higher interest rates in Europe, the dollar’s decline may not end anytime soon. The news is great for some companies. In fact, a strong Euro is the only thing keeping them out of the red. But for other companies, a weak dollar could spell huge trouble, and lots of red ink. Two companies worth comparing are Airbus and Boeing. A falling dollar has dramatically hurt Airbus, while providing Boeing with a fantastic, but temporary, competitive advantage. Who’s bright idea was that? Although Airbus is located in France, its planes are priced in American dollars. That creates some real problems. The majority of the company’s metals, parts, and labor costs are valued in Euros. The further the spread between t...
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VIDEO - Should Yahoo Sell to Microsoft
2008-04-27 16:42:00
In this week’s video I offer my 2 cents about Microsoft ’s desire to buy Yahoo … VIDEO - Should Yahoo Sell to Microsoft Here’s a summary of ETFs… Report - ETF Summary Here are many of our favorite Jesse Livermore quotes… Report - Jesse Livermore Quotes http://www.leavittbrothers.com/ No Related Post SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "VIDEO - Should Yahoo Sell to Microsoft", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/27/video-s hould-yahoo-sell-to-microsoft/" });
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Gold Investing In A Recession
2008-04-27 01:11:00
February 7, 2008 — Gold : What if we had an Inflation Party, but Nobody Came? (0) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gold Investing In A Recession ", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/26/gold-in vesting-in-a-recession/" });

Media in Society
2008-04-19 21:45:00
Last night I saw a debate on television about what role the media is to play in our society. I found one speaker to be somewhat appalling. This person argued against the involvement of media in our societal discussion on issues that matter. Well sir, you are dead wrong… Now if you happen to be on ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Media in Society ", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/04/19/media-i n-society/" });
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VIDEO - Keep Everything Short Term
2008-04-13 04:16:00
For a couple months now, I’ve been telling the membership base at Leavitt Brothers to keep everything short term… VIDEO - Keep Everything Short Term Here’s a summary of ETFs… Report - ETF Summary And info about the Leavitt Brothers memberships… VIDEO - The Leavitt Brothers Stock Picking Service VIDEO - The Leavitt Brothers Option Picking Service http://www.leavittbrothers.com/ Similar Posts:VIDEO - Review of ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "VIDEO - Keep Everything Short Term", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/archive/2008/04/12 /679/" });
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Alternative Energy Stocks: NGK turns a profit on wind power
2008-04-12 16:54:00
My primary weather experience was in a windswept place, where even calm days had an intermittent 30 mph ?breeze.? And maybe that?s why I can?t get excited about storage for wind-turbine energy. The idea that the wind might stop blowing for an extended period of time and you may need to rely on stored power, while ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Alternative Energy Stocks : NGK turns a profit on wind power", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/archive/2008/04/12 /678/" });
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One Sure-Fire Sign That Gas Prices are Heading Higher
2008-04-11 17:34:00
By Keith Fitz-Gerald Money Morning The U.S. Energy Department said earlier this week that it expects average monthly gasoline prices to peak at $3.60 a gallon this spring, since the high prices will serve to curb demand. For investors who are tired of feeling like they?ve been mugged every time they fill up at the corner gas station, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "One Sure-Fire Sign That Gas Prices are Heading Higher ", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/archive/2008/04/11 /675/" });

DuPont Raises 1Q Earnings Estimate, Sheds Light on Burgeoning AgBoom Stocks
2008-04-11 17:27:00
By Mike Caggeso Money Morning E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (DD) - commonly known as DuPont - raised its first-quarter earnings by 20%, highlighting the investor-friendly team of Agriculture Boom companies that are capitalizing on the demand for raw commodities. The Wilmington, Del. conglomerate raised its earnings estimate to $1.29 per share, up from its ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "DuPont Raises 1Q Earnings Estimate, Sheds Light on Burgeoning AgBoom Stocks ", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/archive/2008/04/11 /674/" });
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U.S. Exports Not the Saving Grace Analysts Had Hoped
2008-04-11 17:18:00
By Jason Simpkins Money Morning The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly grew in February, as surging imports overwhelmed a rush of record high exports. A widening trade gap is the opposite of what most analysts anticipated, as a weak dollar and slackening demand were supposed to have made trade the one bright spot in what is now ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "U.S. Exports Not the Saving Grace Analysts Had Hoped", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/archive/2008/04/11 /673/" });
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Tech Industry Misery: A prime buying opportunity
2008-04-11 16:43:00
Spring is a time of renewal and change for the environment. It also appears to be a time of monumental changes for the technology industry. Unfortunately, the changes in the business world are not nearly as scenic. While cherry trees and daffodils are blooming across the continent, the nation?s computer hardware producers are ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tech Industry Misery: A prime buying opportunity", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/archive/2008/04/11 /672/" });
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Airline Profits to Plummet
2008-04-11 16:40:00
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The Dollar Panic
2008-04-11 16:37:00
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General Electric Earnings: The worst is yet to come
2008-04-11 16:24:00
You do not think the credit crisis is over just like that? A few weeks of ups and downs, some presses releases, and some rule changes and the economy is fixed. Get real. This mess is just getting started. For proof, just take a look at one of the nation?s strongest bellwethers, General ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "General Electric Earnings : The worst is yet to come", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/archive/2008/04/11 /669/" });