Being a Contrarian can be very lonely. Therefore, all Great Investors find themselves very lonely as only contrarians become Great Investors. Jeremy Grantham has been lonely a very long time, but he is what I consider a Great Investor, along side Warren Buffet, Bill Gross and Julian Robertson.

Starting September 20, Beijing lifted its even-odd plate license restrictions imposed for two months on the capital city's vehicle driving during the Olympic season, and some new policy to stimulate the future auto market is in the pipeline. All this gives China's carmakers, who are suffering from a market slump, a chance for heaving a sigh of relief and a hope of having a warm winter in the months ahead.

In the first half of this year, Toyota Motor overtook General Motors to become the second-largest foreign carmaker (by sales) in China after Volkswagen, said 21st Century Business Herald today, citing industry information.

By James West

The market has been unkind to junior resource stocks for the last several months, but it has reserved special treatment for uranium juniors, whose management are sounding increasingly depressed and suicidal. The reason is plain to see – the price of uranium is heading south in a hurry, and that has many investors asking, “What exactly is the condition of uranium fundamentals now?”

Brightpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ:CELL) announced that its subsidiaries, Brightpoint Middle East FZE and Brightpoint North America L.P. ("Brightpoint"), have been appointed as distributors by Fahad & Patson Gen Trading LCC, the UAE Agent of Neo products Limited ("Neo"). Pursuant to this agreement, Brightpoint will provide Neo with distribution services for Neo products to be distributed in the Middle East and North America markets.

Web and Green Marketing are hot, Women, Gen X and Y, and Hispanics Catching Up to Boomers, but Marketing Basics are More Important than Ever

A young Nigerian Christian woman was manhandled by a Muslim man in the rainfall near a popular market by a mosque in Abuja, Nigeria.

Standard economics assumes that people base their decisions on real value only and take changes in price tags properly into account. For example, a rational consumer is assumed to base his shopping decisions on “real” prices (e.g., how many hours do I have to work for a loaf of bread?) and would not change his consumption patterns if all “nominal” prices were to move in proportion (e.g. are inflated by the same factor).

Tom Anderson and Olivier Jouve to Discuss Use of Text Mining
for Web Content Analytics June 12-13 in Boston