September 2011
Austerity Haircut for Shareholders and Employees of European Banks
Submitted by Van Beek on September 8, 2011 - 16:29|
Who is getting the austerity haircut because of the lousy job done by the European banks?
Suppose you run a business. Your business is to lend money to those who pay it back and to charge an interest for that. Your job is to balance risk and reward and to make sure that you get a good total return on investment.
Now you are a European bank and you have lent money to Greece. You bought their bonds. |
Top 7 Personal Finance and Stock Investing Articles August 2011
Submitted by Van Beek on September 5, 2011 - 05:41
Here are the top 7 articles on Personal Finance and Stock Market Investing from the second half of August 2011.
These articles have appeared on various blogs. They are selected because of their diversity and the useful information that they provide to the readers. The writers of these posts are independent and not related to the Stock Trend Investing blog.
The 7 articles below are shown in no particular order. I recommend reading them all.
S&P 500, DAX, HSI and GOLD Compared for August and 2011
Submitted by Van Beek on September 2, 2011 - 08:03
Chart 1: S&P 500, DAX, HSI, GOLD compared for the month of August 2011
August was a hectic month. Stock markets moved up and down like a yo-yo.
Gold went as a rocket to crash again… or that was what was said on the news.
Here are two charts that provide you with some perspective of what happened during August.
