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Unmentionable Social Revolution?

Traci Sinclair, Navellier & Associates — 2009-07-06T15:33:00-08:00

Strange as it may sound, the economy is not simply about making people rich or poor. MSNBC recently ran an improbable story about Saudi women learning how to size and to sell female undergarments. In a society where religious law enjoins women to...

Smoke Over Indonesia

Jim O'Leary, Navellier & Associates — 2009-07-02T14:24:00-08:00

It sounds like the title of a sprawling epic novel. But it’s not. It’s a concise description of what you get when the world’s third-largest cigarette maker, British American Tobacco (BTI), buys Indonesia’s fourth-largest cigarette company, PT...

Lecce, A Way Out for the G8?

Traci Sinclair, Navellier & Associates — 2009-06-30T17:16:00-08:00

Meeting in Lecce, Italy, the finance ministers of the G8 recently announced that its members will more fully discuss exit strategies for the stimulus packages they instituted at the upcoming July meeting. This discussion will be guided in large part...

G8 in Crisis?

Traci Sinclair, Navellier & Associates — 2009-06-29T14:00:00-08:00

Last week, MSNBC ran a piece announcing that July’s meeting of finance ministers of the world’s leading economies may be a weaker-than-expected G8. According to the article, the G8 (the U.S., Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, and...

On Alternative Energy…No Politics, Please!

Jim O'Leary, Navellier & Associates — 2009-06-25T13:45:00-08:00

Politics are inescapable in discussions of energy sourcing, it would seem. But this doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Constructive suggestions and proposals, even coming from a political front, can prove to be a good thing. For example, last year’s...

What Do Shakespeare and the U.S. Dollar have in Common? (part 2)

Traci Sinclair, Navellier & Associates — 2009-06-23T16:04:00-08:00

In my posting last Friday, I discussed BRIC’s first formal summit and the resolutions it offered at the conclusion of that summit. Having noted that BRIC’s strategic goals were framed in rather vague language, I closed with a question about the...

What Do Shakespeare and the U.S. Dollar have in Common?

Traci Sinclair, Navellier & Associates — 2009-06-19T14:38:00-08:00

Towards the end of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the character Miranda remarks, “O brave new world / That has such people in’t!” But what Miranda celebrates as a “new world” is really nothing more than a return to conventional society, a fact that...

China Bank & Brazil Oil on a ‘Hot Date’

Jim O'Leary, Navellier & Associates — 2009-06-18T15:00:00-08:00

It sounds like a large-scale international version of something familiar to a high school dating scene. The ‘hot date’ is taking place between Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras (PBR) and the China Development Bank (CDB). It’s not clear who is the boy...

A Hundred Bottles of (Brazilian) Beer on the Wall

Jim O'Leary, Navellier & Associates — 2009-06-16T14:27:01-08:00

In Brazil, there are hundreds, and hundreds, and more hundreds of bottles of AmBev (ABV) “beer on the wall” to be passed around. Brazil has the fourth largest beer market in the world, yet its per capita consumption is relatively low. The country...

Qualcomm’s “Generation Gap”

Jim O'Leary, Navellier & Associates — 2009-06-11T16:54:00-08:00

The term “generation gap” is occasionally bandied-about with negative connotations. But when the term is applied to wireless technology, “generation gap” is a good thing. It means moving from what was before, to what is next. This has special...