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Diageo’s stock has struggled along with the overall market this year. The concerns surrounding the stock (strong GBP, weak consumer, and rising input costs) should have been eased after last week’s conference call. If anything, Diageo’s H2 earnings reaffirmed the long case for investors.
The long case:
o Cost Control
o Demand Growth Continues
o Very Attractive Valuation
Cost Control
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Last Tuesday, Brazil, Russia, India, and China–the so-called BRIC nations–met in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for what was supposed to be an anti-American gabfest. The main agenda item for the first formal meeting of the four largest developing economies was the future of the dollar.

Oil / Gold ratio chart is pointing down.

To tap on this trend, I had executed an inter-commodity spread trade: Short oil and Buy gold. Details .
To execute this trade, you need to sell oil contract that trade in multiple of 100, which is same as gold.

To do that, you need to open account at FXYard which allow you to do so (supermini oil contract). Click here to open account.

Last Tuesday, Brazil, Russia, India, and China–the so-called BRIC nations–met in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for what was supposed to be an anti-American gabfest. The main agenda item for the first formal meeting of the four largest developing economies was the future of the dollar.

Many of us including myself have decided to raise cash during these volatile markets. I have put together a few pointers for the best cash management:
 

Spread your money around

It’s safe to put up to $100,000 in a single FDIC-insured bank account. To protect yourself, spread your cash around several institutions, not all of which need [...]

For the second day in a row, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and US Treasury Secretary Paulson pleaded to the power players of Washington to pass their request for $700 Billion to implement their Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). However if we move the letters around a bit, TARP becomes TRAP and that is [...]