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-- Posted Tuesday, 15 December 2009 | Digg This Article | | Source: GoldSeek.com
1. Stay out of all equities. This is a monstrous valuation bubble driven up by zero interest rates. Rates have to go up, and stock markets down. Markets will correct when something reminds them that this is the future outlook. 2. The dollar rally has further to go, and the dollar will go higher as equities fall, so keep to cash and treasuries until the dollar tops out. 3. No need to diversify into foreign currencies in 2010, except for dollar-linked currencies like the UAE dirham that offer higher interest rates and an explicit government guarantee on all deposits. 4. Buy gold and silver on price weakness when the US dollar rally tops out, and oil stocks. 5. Beware emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, China and India. What has gone up in a hurry will crash in a heap. 6. This will be the ‘Year of the Short’ so, if you want to play the market look to options or short ETFs. 7. Real estate is locked in a downtrend. Interest rates are very low, and real estate only bottoms out when rates are high. 8. Stay liquid for the lifetime buying opportunities that will follow a big crash. Then buy when Warren Buffett says. 9. Do remember to save some of what you earn for future investment opportunities which otherwise tend to occur when you have no savings. 10. Remember that in an era of low interest rates the value of a job is considerable because it would take a much higher capital sum to earn the same in interest. Look after your job.
-- Posted Tuesday, 15 December 2009 | Digg This Article | Source: GoldSeek.com
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About Peter Cooper:
Oxford University educated financial journalist Peter Cooper found himself made redundant by Emap plc in London in the mid-1990s and decided to rebuild his career in Dubai as launch editor of the pioneering magazine Gulf Business. He returned briefly to London in
1999 to complete his first book, a history of the Bovis construction group.
Then in 2000 he went back to Dubai to become an Internet entrepreneur, just as the dot-com market crashed. But he stumbled across the opportunity to become a partner in www.ameinfo.com, which later became the Middle East's leading English language business news website.
 Over the course of the next seven years he had a ringside seat as editor-in-chief writing about the remarkable transformation of Dubai into a global business and financial hub city. At the same time www.ameinfo.com prospered and was sold in 2006 to Emap plc for $27 million, completing the career circle back to where it began a decade earlier.
He remains a lively commentator and columnist as a freelance journalist based in Dubai and travels extensively each summer with his wife Svetlana. His financial blog www.arabianmoney.net is attracting increasing attention with its focus on investment in gold and silver as a means of prospering during a time of great consumer price inflation and asset price deflation.
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