Crystal balls

Why do we deride crystal ball gazing, palm reading, and even (some of us), astrology, and yet base our investment decisions on the predictions of financial analysts? How accurate are forecasts? Why should we believe that one specific area of futurology is a science? And how much forecasting is really being done?  Quoted companies are [...]

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Lex – the way to better buttock care?

There have been many rights issues during the past few months. Most of them would have been repulsive to individually franchised rational investors because they are really fee-fertile rescue issues in disguise (BDEV, SHI, NTG, YELL, etc, etc, etc). Some financial columnists writing in 2009 about rights issues hint at the reality, speculating about the prospects of ‘getting [...]

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