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Archive for 'Finance & investments' Category

How rich are you?

Apr 26th, 2009 by Weld El-ma6aba | 2

I’m not sure how accurate this is but it gives you an idea of where do you stand in terms of your income against other people. visit the global rich list to find out.
Thanks Xeco for the link
Link: Global Rich List

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Madoff’s first day in jail

Mar 24th, 2009 by Weld El-ma6aba | 1

Thanks HJ for the email.

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Jay Leno’s take on the Crisis

Jan 8th, 2009 by Weld El-ma6aba | 2

1. The US has made a new weapon that destroys people but keeps the building standing. It’s called the stock market
2. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street
3. The difference between a pigeon and a London investment banker. The pigeon can still make a [...]

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A term I learned lately

Dec 15th, 2008 by Weld El-ma6aba | 0

Ponzi scheme: An investment scam that appears to be actually paying high returns by paying the supposed returns out of the investors’ own capital.
the reason I post about this is a result of knowing about the great scheme that was pulled off by hedge fund manager Bernard Madoff. for more information about this story go [...]

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Technical Analysis/Trading Ideas

Dec 3rd, 2008 by Weld El-ma6aba | 6

I have been thinking (for a long time) to post charts about stocks and what I think about them.. the question is, should i post them here and flood the blog with relatively unrelated posts or start another blog for that purpose ?
kindly let me know..

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Got bailout?

Dec 2nd, 2008 by Weld El-ma6aba | 4

Want to understand the size of the financial crisis? look at these pie charts. it’s ridiculous

click on the image to enlarge

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I have Bloomberg B-Unit

Nov 27th, 2008 by Weld El-ma6aba | 0

Now this maybe not interesting for alot of people.. but it’s awesome ! I have bloomberg b-unit for the bloomberg anywhere !!! that means I can access my bloomberg professional terminal from anywhere … from home.. from Kuwait.. from any any anywhere! that’s seriously awesome.

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The Economy and Finance of today.

Nov 27th, 2008 by Weld El-ma6aba | 5

Does that remind your of the Kuwait market?? actually, that remind me of any chart I have looked at in the past year or so

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Election day..

Nov 4th, 2008 by Weld El-ma6aba | 3

This year’s election is one of the most elections i’m excited about.. with all whats happening to the US economy, and wars it’s going to be interesting to see who will win the elections and how will the new president take actions. if I have the right to vote I will sure vote for Obama and [...]

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Cigar? Really?

Oct 29th, 2008 by Weld El-ma6aba | 0

Mr. Alghanim assuring the stability of the bank but couldn’t wait to have his damn cigar until the end of the press release?

Oh and he’s going to be upset if someone talks about options and derevatives .. thats a nice way to set people straight !

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