Weekend Reading

To keep you up to speed on some of the more important news items, take a look at the following articles.

• Markets brace for bumpy ride after French election
• High oil prices threatened by … high oil prices
• Spain still embodies roots of financial crisis
•  Is oil really worth more than $100 a barrel?
• Rising Fears That Recovery May Once More Be Faltering
• April showers on the euro
• Iran politics: Back on
• Investors are the casualties in a booming oil patch
• Exclusive: BlackBerry maker hires law firm for restructuring
• CP head touts results as proof railway is undergoing turnaround

Gas Prices Explained

This video is quite amusing and very accurate. Enjoy.

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Stratfor on China

Here is a quick commentary by Stratfor on China’s recently announced trade deficit (hat tip to Global Macro Monitor) :

Stratfor: China’s Trade Deficit Encourages Economic Reform

We have been saying for a while now that China is a wild card this year. No need to panic yet, but it is something investors will need to pay attention to for the rest of the year and into 2013.  A serious slowdown in China could affect everything from Alberta’s oil sands to housing prices in Australia (click here to read article).

How does the Train2Invest Strategy work?

Train2invest is a really simple strategy that you can learn to put to action and that is; take small consistent profits on a repeated basis and what does that really mean? It means that when you put your money to work and you can make a little bit of a profit as a result of doing that, then when that comes back into your account, you have the ability to make those choices all over again. Read more »