There is a time to make, and there is a time to rest. My 7week holidays start tomorrow through New Year 2011!
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!
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Well, the tough looking CMC founder Peter Cruddas worth £1b in year 2009. I thought he was a fish monger's son, not true, but more humble, a meat-market porter and a cleaner's son. “A lot of people in the City (London's financial district) want to hide their wealth,” Cruddas said in 2005. “Not me. I’m proud to be ranked No 1 and take it as a mark of distinction.”
About him : He left school at 15 and became a telex operator. CMC was launched in 1989 with £10,000. In 1996, CMC branched out from traditional broking into online trading of shares, currencies, gold, oil and spread-bets; Goldman Sachs paid £140m for a 10% stake in 2007. Profits rose sharply to £57.2m in 2007-08 on soaring turnover of £181.4m. Past salaries, dividends and a £30m property portfolio take him to £1 billion.
1996 was a pivotal year for him, had he not persisted on pursing his vision of e-trading, we will probably not know him today. Just like Peter Lim's foresight on future trend, Peter Cruddas was betting on information technology when the IT age was at its infancy. These winners see things into future much further than many of us do. And they work hard to build their futures too.
Most importantly, they are both very charitable.
Hmm.. the devil is in the details, and literally a red devil himself anyway. Peter Lim currently holds the franchise for Manchester United theme restaurants in Asia. Being a shrewd businessman as he is, my feeling is, he is sicked of paying MUFC franchise license fees, If he owns LFC, he will be on top of the food chain of those lucrative franchising business and more. A great way to synergize his businesses. And yeah right... for the love of football. LOL!
Answer: Singapore's seventh richest man (Ref. Forbes, Sep/2009, net worth 1.5 Billion), and he is bidding for Liverpool (a football club, or soccer club, LOL!). Mind you, he is making a £360m cash bid! I am no fan of soccer, but I have many friends are. Some of them are Liverpool fans, and I am very sure they will have few words if their club is taken over by a Singaporean... Scary thought! LOL!
Me ain't no Hell Angel! LOL! Previously I was talking about King of Smart Phones (i.e. Apple iPhone), the leader of its industry. This time, it is about the King of Street Bikes - Harley Davidson. Another great Amercian product. Check out its chart; in my opinion, its chart is a pretty good indicator (or reflection) of Amercan economy. LOL!
Sep 28 (WSJ) - The U.S. billionaire duo of investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Wednesday handed celebrity-level endorsement to Chinese auto maker BYD, in which Buffet’s investment firm has a nearly 10% stake.The two Americans rode in a BYD van from behind a cloud of mist and onto the stage of a Beijing media event for the company, before giving lavish, if seemingly rehearsed, praise for the van.
“It was fantastic. I am amazed at the quality of that vehicle,” Gates said after exiting the van, called the M6.
Cap'n Crunch: Michael Arrington says his style is to “bust the door down and clean the mess up later.”
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Cap'n Crunch: Michael Arrington says his style is to “bust the door down and clean the mess up later.”
UniCredit has upgraded their target price for gold from $1,250 to $1,600 by the end of 2012. The reason for the upgrade is based on three powerful trends: the fear over “money printing” at the Fed (QE), the idea that the Euro sovereign debt crisis represents a condemnation of fiat money and increasing demand for gold from China.
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“The Chinese government has encouraged consumers to invest in gold, and with great success. In the last 12 months, demand for gold totaled 532 tons. While jewelry demand is merely stagnating, investors are increasingly discovering the gold market. While as recently as 2008 only 17 tons of gold were purchased, in 2009 the figure was already 73 tons. In the last 12 months, demand was even 143 tons! Although China has evolved into the world’s largest gold producer in recent years, the annual production of most recently 330 tons is by no means sufficient to satisfy this demand.
China announced important gold market reforms at the beginning of August. Foreign companies are now permitted to offer their gold coins at the Shanghai Exchange, more banks are permitted to import gold from abroad, and more domestic, gold-based investment products are to be developed. As a result, demand of Chinese investors will increasingly be felt on the global market. But the Chinese government also has an ever greater interest in gold imports. In April 2009, China had reported an increase in its gold reserves from 19.29mn to 33.89mn troy ounces. Nevertheless, they are still at a very low 1.7% of the entire foreign exchange reserves. If China is targeting a gold reserve of, for example, 10%, it would have to purchase 6,130 tons of gold or 2.4 times global annual production. If China were to meet the demand only from domestic producers, it would take 19 years to achieve this objective. Since the gold market is per se only a very small market, further increases in the price of gold are pre-programmed.”
14 September 2010, 9:38 a.m.
By Allen Sykora
Of Kitco News
http://www.kitco.com/
(Kitco News)-- Technical buying is playing a big role in the rise for Comex gold, says Charles Nedoss, senior market strategist with Olympus Futures. December gold is $13.80 higher at $1,260.90 an ounce. The market held around support at the 20-day moving average on a pullback late last week. "Last night, we never took out yesterday's low. And we took out Friday's high. So we saw a little bit of stop-loss buying," Nedoss says. "And you're close enough to the new highs that you brought in fresh buying." The move suggests traders still want to get long in gold, he adds. "They are looking to buy the breaks (lower). I think the breaks are becoming less shallow."
By Allen Sykora, of Kitco News; asykora@kitco.com
