The U.S. Federal Reserve shocked markets Tuesday by cutting the Fed funds rate – the overnight bank lending rate – by half a percentage point. As a result, equities and commodities jumped sharply. But the issues underlying the current credit crisis remain in place.
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Stockhouse members expounded on numerous different topics this week. Littleguy123 warned that faulty analysis of statistics (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
The concept of the knowledge quadrant (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
And, in an open letter to the Southern Arc (TSX: V.SA) board, Graham urged (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
Gold was a direct beneficiary of the Fed’s rate cut this week. Mike Hewitt explored the prospects for a copper and gold company (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
The search for new, cleaner energy sources has fostered a boom in uranium prices and the share price of uranium producers and exploration companies. Mike Maillet wrote that U3O8 Corp (TSX: V.UWE), a company with exploration projects (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
For a quick look at what was hot on Stockhouse during the past week, have a read of the Stockhouse Top Five (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
And from our regular stable of contributors:
Institutional Research Partners interviewed the CEO of wireless infrastructure (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
Two oil and gas plays were a lesson in contrasts (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
Investors who are looking for investment themes for China (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
Steven Saville took issue with the stance of Dr. John Hussman on inflation (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
This week’s report by the Alberta Royalty Commission that the province ought to charge a greater royalty (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
As the gold price increases, governments are going all out to induce investment in exploration. Egypt (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
Dubai is well-known as a desert destination, but sales of gold jewelry (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn
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