Fiscal Cliffs in the USA… Fisti-Cuffs in the RSA…???

Fiscal Cliffs We certainly do have an interesting December 2012 ahead of us. The World is waiting with baited breath to know whether the USA will be able to secure a bi-partisan agreement by the end of the month for their budgetary and tax issues for 2013 and beyond. The outcome is by
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Pre-Party Palpitations…

The worker strikes, which often frequent this time of year, have produced horrific consequences not normally associated with labour disputes, culminating in the deaths of more than 45 of our citizens. To make matters worse the incidents have been exploited by various factions in the r
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“Sell in May and go away”…???

The Title phrase above, sometimes heard in investment circles, is derived from the historically weak equity returns experienced in the months from May to September on Wall Street. The chart alongside graphically shows how this trend has manipulated itself over the past 30 years in the
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End of Tax Year Report – 29 Feb 2012…

The points I made about the markets in the first part of last year’s February review can be made once again in this review. The local share market, in particular, has had a strong bull run since August 2011 through to end February as you will see in the red line of the graph below [co
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