Tuesday November 27, 2012

Dr M: M’sia needs proper rule for gold trading, investment

By SHARIDAN M. ALI
sharidan@thestar.com.my

Dr M: M’sia needs proper rule for gold trading, investment

Warm welcome: Organising chairman Shirazdeen Adam Shah (left) welcoming Dr Mahathir to the conference. Conference chairman Prof Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera is next to Dr Mahathir.

Commenting on the recent controversial gold investment schemes involving several companies, he said there was no proper regulations for such trading and investment.

“I recommend gold as a kind of reserve or saving, better than money, as it is more likely to appreciate.

“I do not know what's the issue with this Genneva company, but I think it should be investigated to find out what did it do wrong.

“On the other hand, people (the investors) also deserve fair treatment because if you totally stop the transactions, their money will get stuck,” he told reporters after delivering a keynote address at the 3rd World Riba Conference.

Last month, Genneva Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a gold trading company, alongside a few other companies of similar business nature were raided by Bank Negara, the police, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry and the Companies Commission of Malaysia.

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GOLD EXPLODES>>>QE 3

http://goldprice.org/spot-gold.html

Gold Explodes!
Business Insider 01:36

Sell Gold Before Bernanke's Address Today
SeekingAlpha 21:43 Thu, 13 Sep 2012

Gold soaring after Fed statement
ForexLive.com 01:29

Gold bugs haven’t lost the Midas touch
MarketWatch 01:26

PRECIOUS METALS: Comex Gold Hits Six-Month High After Fed News
The Wall Street Journal 01:11 

Dollar and Gold Resting on the Bernanke Decision
The Market Oracle 14:42 Thu, 13 Sep 2012

Gold Just TANKED Ahead Of The Fed
Business Insider 00:25

QE3 "Could Push Gold Over $1800", But "Disappointment Factor" Seen as High
GoldSeek.com 21:48 Thu, 13 Sep 2012

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Business+&+Finance/Gold

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Harry Dents Confidence with Predictions of The Great Depression Ahead - Books

Harry Dents Confidence with Predictions of The Great Depression Ahead

Posted by steven

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Little did I realize that within 18 months I would be speaking along side the author of that book, economist Harry S Dent.

I discovered that since 1989 Harry Dent has been accurately forecasting major economic events around the world.
He predicted the 2008 Global Financial Crisis at least 10 years before it occurred and is now regarded by many as the world’s most accurate economic forecaster.

Don’t you wish you knew this information back then?

He is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books including;

• The Great Depression Ahead (2009)

• The Next Great Bubble Boom (2006)

• The Roaring 2000s Investor (1999)

• The Roaring 2000s (1998)

• The Great Jobs Ahead (1995)

• The Great Boom Ahead (1993)

• Our Power to Predict (1989)

Are Harry Dent predictions always right?

You’re about to find out but Harry Dent is a regular commentator on Fox Business News, he has appeared on “Good Morning America”, PBS, CNBC, CNN/FN, and has been featured in Barron’s, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Success, US News and World Report, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, American Demographics and Omni......

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Everything You Know About Markets Is Wrong? - zerohedge.com

Everything You Know About Markets Is Wrong?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2012 20:46 -0400

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-everything-you-know-about-markets-wrong

Submitted by Eric L. Prentis,

The financial elite—using academe for intellectual cover—want you to believe that markets are efficient, as defined by the Efficient Market Theory (EMT). My research strikes down this hoary old EMT economic dogma, used by duplicitous bankers and hedge fund managers to con US politicians and 99% of Americans.

The Efficient Market Theory (EMT) is a significant foundation theory in economics. Prove the EMT wrong, and economics becomes largely an empty shell. Therefore, the EMT is the most important fundamental issue in economics and for America.

US politicians mistakenly use EMT based economic theories to pass laws favorable to Wall Street. First causing and now worsening the credit crisis. Examples of credit crisis enabling legislation include:

• Gramm–Leach–Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999
• Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000
• Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
• Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012

Three tenets define the EMT.

• The first tenet—that markets are in equilibrium and if unexpected events cause disequilibrium, it is only temporary because markets are self-equilibrating—is disputed in the literature. A stock market always in equilibrium and efficient is impossible because traders have different endowments, beliefs and preferences. In addition, arbitrage costs throw markets out of equilibrium.
• The second tenet—that stock prices “fully reflect” all information—has long been challenged in the literature, with many inconsistencies reported. Tenet number two goes on to say asset prices properly represent each asset’s intrinsic value, and as a result, prices are always accurate signals for capital allocation. Researchers in behavioral economics find fault with this EMT assumption, because it does not account for human nature and inherent herding behavioral instincts of market participants. EMT theorists—Eugene F. Fama and Burton G.Malkiel—claim assuming market equilibrium is close enough to reality, and that research into EMT tenet two contests only the semi-strong form of efficiency. That is, where earning higher returns than the stock market, with lower risk, is not achievable by knowing all publicly available information. EMT theorists continue to support the EMT and say, “If you want to do better than stock market returns, you have to take on more risk than the stock market.”
• EMT tenet number three is most important—that is, stock prices move randomly or are uncorrelated with, if not independent of the prior period’s price change. Therefore, earning higher returns than the stock market, with lower risk, is impossible to achieve using only past prices (i.e., technical analysis stock trading rules or stock charts). Empirically prove EMT tenet number three wrong— because it tests the weak form of market efficiency—and the EMT is wrong, period! ............

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-everything-you-know-about-markets-wrong


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Efficient Market Hypothesis in 2 Easy Steps: What is Efficient Market Hy...

 by MBAbullshitDotCom on Jan 23, 2011

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As can be seen on http://mbabullshit.com/blog/efficient-market-hypothesis/about EMH, stocks inside the stock market ordinarily rise in worth when you can find excellent news with regard to a stock's company. Conversely, they regularly move down if you can find not so good news about a business enterprise.

Why? If good news relating to a stock comes out (as though, for example, information in which the firm obtained a lot of profits), thereafter each and every one suddenly wants to buy the stock, to make sure that they will be able to gain from the larger proceeds.

Once any individual works to purchase the stock, the elevated "demand" for your stock brings up the worth.As a result, an awesome way to earn money with the use of stocks would be to buy the stock when something good transpires with the company (illustration: it strikes oil) but before the excellent news comes out to the masses... and while the stock price is still low. (After the firm strikes oil, you might have to wait one or even 2 days for the general public to know about it from the news.)

And next, after the excellent news has come out, everybody else will attempt to pay for the stock, and the stock price will climb. In the event the stock price is already up, you'll be able to sell your stock at a significant price and generate a superb profit.In this brand of scenario, whom would you say must have a great reward? The best buddy of the company chief or the universal masses?

Obviously, the finestpreferredbest mate of the enterprise chief is at a very good convenience! He can easily learn via the chief executive-chumin relation to the firm finding,hitting oil prior to everyone else! And then, he is able to buy the stock when it's still at a reduced bargain.

Then, he is able to in simple terms wait one or 2 days for the reports to get going to the universal masses and for the universal public to kick off ordering the share; which generally is likely to drive up the share price. So next, the chief executive's chum could basically sell at the higher rate and get an easy swift profit. Nonetheless suppose... information traveled veryremarkablyremarkablyveryvery rapidly? What if, as soon as the firm struck oil, the whole masses would know about it basically immediately; really as fast as the firm chief's buddy? How?

Maybe the news media is actually indeed "streamlined" in acquiring and relaying information (just like those "established" journalists). Or alternatively maybe, regardless of if the news channel is sluggish, social media (for example Facebook or Twitter) helps transmit the data notably swiftly (perhaps a person at the oil well instantly tweets it and it gets retweeted plenty of occasions over the globe in just seconds). In this case, will the company chief executive's chum remain to have better chances? Obviously, the answer is no.

This is the crux of the EMH or Efficient Market Hypothesis. When industry informationinformationinformation travels particularly fast, powerfully as well as more or less immediately (featuring "strong" market efficiency), company officers, their friends, and additional guys utilizing "inside" resources and info do not develop better chances more than the general public in relation to investing in shares.The converse is moreover thought to be right. In the event that market facts travels steadily and notably inefficiently (having "weak" market efficiency), then company officers, their close friends and additional guys utilizing "inside" information have a great leverage versus the broad public on the subject of flipping in shares.

There may be additionally a scheme in between the two extremes above. In the event that market information travels not too swiftly although not very sluggish either, then firm officers and their friends own some advantage against the broad masses when it comes to trading in shares of stock. This is termed "semi-strong" market efficiency.

To put it briefly: Institution officers and "buddies" of company officers only ownownownhaveown an advantage in the event that facts flows gradually over time and "inefficiently." In the event that the information in the market moves just about instantly and "efficiently," then firm officers and close mates do not obtain an edge and are not able to easily "trade on the news broadcast."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5JDftgykcg

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Wall Street Food Chain...pimco.com

William H. Gross

http://media.pimco.com/media/Investment_Outlook_Podcast_06_12.mp3

Wall Street Food Chain

• Soaring debt/GDP ratios in previously sacrosanct AAA countries have made low cost funding increasingly a function of central banks as opposed to private market investors.
• Both the lower quality and lower yields of such previously sacrosanct debt represent a potential breaking point in our now 40-year-old global monetary system.
• Bond investors should favor quality and “clean dirty shirt” sovereigns (U.S., Mexico and Brazil), for example, as well as emphasize intermediate maturities that gradually shorten over the next few years. Equity investors should likewise favor stable cash flow global companies and ones exposed to high growth markets.​

The whales of our current economic society swim mainly in financial market oceans. Innovators such as Jobs and Gates are as rare within the privileged 1% as giant squid are to sharks, because the 1% feed primarily off of money, not invention. They would have you believe that stocks, bonds and real estate move higher because of their wisdom, when in fact, prices float on an ocean of credit, a sea in which all fish and mammals are now increasingly at risk because of high debt and its delevering consequences. Still, as the system delevers, there are winners and losers, a Wall Street food chain in effect........


http://www.pimco.com/EN/Insights/Pages/Wall-Street-Food-Chain.aspx


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2012 Just Woke Up In 2011 All Over Again...zerohedge.com

2012 Just Woke Up In 2011 All Over Again

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/01/2012 14:34 -0400

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-just-woke-2011-all-over-again

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Gold investors expect Greek exit...investmenteurope.net

Gold investors overwhelmingly expect Greek exit from euro

• By: David Walker
• 01 Jun 2012

Almost three quarters of gold investors believe that Greece will leave the euro within a year, according to a recent poll by the World Gold Council.....

http://www.investmenteurope.net/investment-europe/news/2181656/gold-investors-overwhelmingly-expect-greek-exit-euro


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“This situation is unprecedented.... - John Embry told King World News

May 30, 2012
Today John Embry told King World News, “This situation is unprecedented.  The world has never, ever been in a condition like this.”

The bottom line is that gold will bounce back violently from this manipulation at some point.”

Embry also added:  “What you have going on right now is a rush to the supposed safe havens, which are the US dollar, and, by extension, US Treasuries.  The US 10-Year is now at a historic all-time low.  This is preposterous, but it is a pre-condition for QE3.

The US Fed would love to have the dollar firm when they announce QE3 because it is going to get clobbered on that announcement.  Similarly, I think they want the gold price as low as possible when that announcement is made because it will be taking off to the upside when QE3 is announced.

The stock market will also be taking off to the upside from lower levels when the announcement is made.  So, I think they could be grooming (managing) the markets as we speak, positioning them for the optimal point of the launch of QE3.  

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/5/30_Embry_-_People_Will_Be_Shocked_at_the_Chaos_Heading_Our_Way.html

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Felda Global Ventures...IPO

Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd

Published: Thursday May 31, 2012 MYT 9:24:00 AM
Updated: Thursday May 31, 2012 MYT 9:44:21 AM

Felda Global Ventures's retail offering at RM4.55 a share (Update)

By Joseph Chin

KUALA LUMPUR: Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGVH) said the initial public offering (IPO) of 2.188 billion shares would involve an institutional offering of up 1.915 billion shares to institutions.

According to the prospectus issued on Thursday, the retail offering will be 273.61 million shares. The retail price is RM4.55 per share and subject to refund to the difference if the final retail price is less than the retail price.

The 2.188 billion shares under the IPO are in conjunction with the listing of the entire 3.648 billion shares of RM1 each on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd, comprising an offer for sale of up to 1.208 billion existing shares and a public issue of 980 million new shares......
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/31/business/20120531094033&sec=business



FGVH to list on June 28: Source
Posted on 29 May 2012 - 05:39am

Kang Siew Li
sunbiz@thesundaily.com

PETALING JAYA (May 29, 2012): Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGVH), the world's third-largest oil palm plantation operator, will be launching its prospectus on Thursday, with listing targeted for June 28, a source toldSunBiz yesterday.

"The retail price is touted to be RM4.65, subject to the final institutional price which will be determined by a book-building exercise (which ends on June 15)," said the source.

FGVH's initial public offering (IPO) consists of 2.19 billion shares, comprising a public issue of up to 980 million shares and an offer for sale of up to 1.21 billion shares. The IPO would raise as much as RM4.56 billion based on RM4.65 a share.

Reuters reported on May 16 that Felda's IPO had attracted cornerstone investors such as Louis Dreyfus, Fidelity Investments, Hong Kong's Value Partners, tycoon Tan Sri Quek Leng Chan, Permodalan Nasional Bhd and the Employees Provident Fund......
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/391007

FGVH locks in Qatar Holding as cornerstone, source says

May 30, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 — Qatar Holding LLC, a unit of the Gulf nation’s sovereign wealth fund, has agreed to take part in the planned US$3 billion (RM9 billion) listing of Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd as a cornerstone investor, a source with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters.

It would be the first time a Middle Eastern sovereign fund has acted as a cornerstone in a Malaysian initial public offering (IPO).

The world’s No.3 palm plantation operator is preparing for its market debut at the end of June, one of the world’s largest after Facebook’s US$16 billion listing in mid-May.

“They are taking quite a substantial stake,” the source said, declining to elaborate further as the talks are confidential.....

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/litee/business/article/fgvh-locks-in-qatar-holding-as-cornerstone-source-says/


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The Accounting For JP Morgan’s Bet - Francine McKenna (@retheauditors)

When Is A Hedge Not A Hedge? The Accounting For JP Morgan’s Bet

By Francine • May 18th, 2012 • Category: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pure Content, Regulators, Laws, Standards, Regulations, Writing for Others

Overgrown Hedge

Yesterday’s column at American Banker digs into the accounting for JP Morgan’s reported “hedge”.  I was shocked – OK, not really – that no main stream media outlet had explained the stunning announcement made by Jamie Dimon last Thursday of a $2 billion loss on a series of trades made by the Chief Investment Office in accounting terms. CIO is the group purportedly managing the investment of the bank’s excess deposits.  In London. As in, the low risk sweep function. Uh-huh.

There’s lots of speculation about the nature of the trade itself. The best I’ve seen is the ongoing coverage at FT Alphaville by Lisa Pollack, in particular.

The gist of all the stories is that the CIO was selling protection on the CDX.NA.IG.9 (going long) to balance out the tranches on the high yield index that they’d bought (going short, which turned out to be profitable when Dynegy and AMR Corp defaulted).

In this way the trade would be both a curve play and across indices — one high yield, one investment grade, with the high yield play levered further because it was a tranche. The long on the IG.9 also would have helped to fund the rather expensive short on the high yield tranches.

If you are an expert in this stuff, please get in touch. I’d buy a big steak for someone who can walk me through it, maybe at a quiet table at Gene & Georgetti’s.

I took a long look at the 10K and 10Q and the first clue was the pretty stark statement, all over the place that the credit derivative number, “Represents the net notional amount of protection purchased and sold of single-name and portfolio credit derivatives used to manage both performing and nonperforming credit exposures; these derivatives do not qualify for hedge accounting under U.S. GAAP.”

So from a financial reporting perspective, all the media and trader chatter about “hedge or bet?” is moot.

The bank may now be calling the positions an “economic hedge” but, in hindsight, they look to me like a series of trades designed to generate income that spiraled out of control on incorrect or ignored risk information and lack of control over traders.

“It was there to deliver a positive result in a quite stressed environment,” Dimon said on the May 10 emergency conference call, “and we feel we can do that and make some net income.”

The rest of the American Banker column provides the details. .....

http://retheauditors.com/2012/05/18/when-is-a-hedge-not-a-hedge-the-accounting-for-jp-morgans-bet/

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Engaging Brands on Facebook -INFOGRAPHIC -by Samantha Murphy

These Are the Most Engaging Brands on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

1 day ago by Samantha Murphy

http://mashable.com/2012/05/15/facebook-brands-global/

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Facebook Pre IPO Headlines....

Facebook expected to raise IPO range to $34-$38 a share

By Stacy Cowley and Julianne Pepitone @CNNMoneyTech May 14, 2012: 10:44 PM ET
http://money.cnn.com//2012/05/14/technology/facebook-raises-price-range/index.htm?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29

Facebook will raise stock price, could be first U.S. company worth $100 billion at IPO

By Jeremy C. Owens and Brandon Bailey

Mercury News

Posted:   05/14/2012 07:00:33 PM PDT

Updated:   05/14/2012 08:24:15 PM PDT

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_20623364/facebook-raises-stock-price-could-be-first-u?source=most_viewed

In Facebook IPO, Frenzy, Skepticism

• Updated May 14, 2012, 8:17 p.m. ET

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304543904577395122935463642.html

All-time top 10 IPOs for Internet companies; Facebook’s would top them all

By Associated Press,

Facebook and its shareholders are hoping to raise as much as $11.8 billion in an initial public offering of stock. It would be the largest IPO ever for an Internet company. Here are the top 10 so far, according to Renaissance Capital, an IPO investment adviser:

Google Inc., IPO on Aug. 18, 2004, $1.67 billion raised.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/all-time-top-10-ipos-for-internet-companies-facebooks-would-top-them-all/2012/05/14/gIQAtXqaPU_story.html

15 MAY, 2012, 08.36AM IST, NEW YORK TIMES 

Facebook needs to turn data trove into investor gold

SAN FRANCISCO: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. 

Now what? 
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/facebook-needs-to-turn-data-trove-into-investor-gold/articleshow/13144829.cms

Facebook IPO shares tough task for small investors

DAVE CARPENTER, AP Personal Finance Writer

Updated 05:03 p.m., Monday, May 14, 2012

CHICAGO (AP) — Hoping to get in on Facebook's hotly anticipated public stock offering? You'll need Facebook friends at very high levels — or a lot of money.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Facebook-IPO-shares-tough-task-for-small-investors-3557503.php

Former Facebook Hands Capitalize on Buzz

Updated May 14, 2012, 6:05 p.m. ET

BY SHAYNDI RAICE

Days ahead of Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering, the company's network of former executives and investors are doing their own deal making.

Quora Inc., a question-and-answer site started by two of Facebook's earliest employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, has raised $50 million in a new financing that values it at $400 million, up from a valuation of around $86 million two years ago, said people familiar with the matter....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303505504577404510443769988.html

Dobbs Ferry Recalls Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook IPO Nears

by Matt Bultman (email) 

DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. – When Facebook makes its highly-anticipated IPO Friday, 28-year-old Dobbs Ferry native Mark Zuckerberg will become one of the richest men on the planet.

Long before Facebook, tagged photos and timelines, Zuckerberg was just another student in the Ardsley School District. He ran cross country, was on the fencing team, played Mario Kart and obsessed about Star Wars, teachers and family friends say.

http://www.thedailyhastings.com/neighbors/dobbs-ferry-recalls-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ipo

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