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Malaysia's house price rises have continued, but at a slower pace, due to a slight GDP growth slowdown to 5.1% in 2011, from 7.2% in 2010. Malaysian houses prices have tracked inflation during the last decade, except during the recent surge.

By Greg PeelWith cyclical stocks on the nose for longer term investors in Australia and worldwide, given post-GFC risk frustration, defensive stocks have returned to popularity ? not just because of their defensive nature on a capital preservation basis but also because of the yield they offer on di...

During the past week Google has been hosting their annual Google I/O event. Apple Events attract diehards from all over the world and in the past we have seen almost evangelical like scenes at these events.

There are rumors in and around the market that there is an ongoing deal between Sinopec and Chesapeake. The news of this deal is reigning loud in the market even more than the investment of Carl Icahn, the giant of natural gas.

While the global recession is still a threat to the economies, Retail sector has come as a ray of hope in the damp clouds. Though not an exuberating number, some countries do show a positive development towards retail, which stands as a sign, if not, a complete step towards a U-turn from downfall.

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According to Slipstream Trader Murray Dawes, the technical stars have aligned. They're warning of an imminent market plunge. Murray reckons it could happen within weeks.

By Kathleen Brooks, Research Director UK EMEA, FOREX.comThe EU summit was a curve ball for the markets.

The Bank of China opened its first bank branch in Taipei yesterday to much media fanfare as decades of tension cool.

By Peter Switzer, Switzer Super ReportIt's been another week where stock market optimism was actually given a chance, with US housing data looking unquestionably better than it has for years.

By Greg PeelThe Dow closed down 24 points or 0.2% while the S&P lost 0.2% to 1329 and the Nasdaq dropped 0.

Investors have been given a glimpse into the EU summit...but a lot of questions remain unansweredBy Chris Tedder, Research Analyst FOREX.

by Andrew Milligan, Head of Global Strategy, Standard Life InvestmentsIf European policymakers were playing a grand game of golf they would currently be knee-deep in the rough, with no line of sight to the green.

By Greg PeelThe Dow rose 92 points or 0.7% while the S&P gained 0.9% to 1331 and the Nasdaq added 0.7%.

A quick recap of the weekend: Syria has shot down a Turkish military jet, the Muslim Brotherhood has won power in Egypt, England lost on penalties (again), North smashed Adelaide, and the blithering idiots who pretend to run Europe's economy have decided that spending more money is the answer!

Small businesses play a central role in employment generation but are often ignored because they are after all, small! The value and role played by the New generation of small business in propping the global economy cannot be underestimated.

By Kathleen Brooks, Research Director UK EMEA at FOREX.comThe markets aren't holding out too much hope for a neat resolution to the sovereign debt crisis at this week's EU summit.

By Greg PeelThe Dow closed up 32 points or 0.3% while the S&P gained 0.6% to 1319 and the Nasdaq added 0.

By Richard (Rick) MillsAhead of the HerdAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best informationAt the start of golden ages golden stories should be toldFollowing many years of net annual sales in the 400 to 500 tonne range, central banks, underweighted in gold and ...

By Andrew NelsonIf things weren't travelling along slowly enough in the uranium spot market, last week saw even less activity according to market consultants TradeTech.

FNArena has added another video to its Investors Education section on the website. This week, ATW's Jerry Simmons sees possible support emerging for US stock future indices (implying strength for equities) and oil, while sounding a cautionary note for gold.

By Greg PeelThe Dow closed down 138 points or 1.1% while the S&P lost 1.6% to 1313 and the Nasdaq plunged 2.

When Einstein laid out the groundwork for Quantum Physics in the early 1900′s everyone was amazed at his theories, but soon after everyone was asking, but how can it be used and how is this applicable to anyone's lives?

Digital technology is reinventing our whole world, in service of you and me. It's free enterprise on steroids. It's bypassing the gatekeepers and empowering each of us to invent our own civilization for ourselves, according to our own specifications.

Nearly 13% of the content in today's Australian Financial Review was about yesterday's big announcement from Fairfax Media Limited (ASX:FXJ). In case you missed it - and if you're a newspaper reader it would have been impossible to miss - Fairfax announced 1,900 job cuts, the creation of a pay wall for on-line content, a strategy to become a 'digital' business (whatever that means), and the closure of printing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.

It's just another acronym dreamed up by the market to describe the daily see-saw action in asset prices. Despite the complexity of the market and the millions of signals it throws off, we have managed to distil the daily price action down to either risk on or risk off.

By Greg PeelJack Lifton has had more than 50 years experience in the global automotive, heavy equipment, electrical, electronic, mining smelting and refining industries.

By Richard (Rick) MillsAhead of the HerdAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best informationGeorge Mitchell, as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in 1966, began urging bankers to consider how "the computer can drastically change money and...

By Greg PeelThe Dow fell 250 points or 2.0% while the S&P lost 2.2% to 1325 and the Nasdaq dropped 2.4%.