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| Sep 8 | Ooh, ooh, will it get there? Gold is clawing its way back to June’s peak, but looks like it needs a good shove from behind to hit the spot. |
| Sep 8 | The rally in Brent Crude has stalled at the 200-day moving average ahead of today's inventory numbers. |
| Sep 7 | Fears over the long-term health of the EU banking sector returned to haunt the Euro, but traders seemed intent on punishing Sterling as well. |
| Sep 7 | Tullow Oil started to look interesting yesterday, perhaps suggesting that this morning’s bid speculation was already doing the City rounds. |
| Sep 6 | Using a dull day to trawl through a few old equity bets, I came across an interesting situation in ICAP. |

| Jul 8 | ECB:
Today ECB’s Trichet is expected to say that rates remain appropriate at 1.00% and that the inflation outlook remains well anchored. |
| Jun 10 | I’ve been straining all my nerves to stay optimistic about equities. But I’ve had some jarring lessons in being too contrarian, and failed to judge the steepness of the sell-off. |
| Jun 10 | This week I am going to be investigating four nations that I think have intriguing investment opportunities that are part of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Today we move to |
| Jun 9 | This week I am going to be investigating four nations that I think have intriguing investment opportunities that are part of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. We will start with Slovenia |
| Jun 8 | Today, in the final part of my Discourse on the IMF and third world nations, we will be looking at the case study of a nation hurt and helped by the IMF - Zambia |





