August 10, 2008
Here is a sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet.com: An unnamed sovereign wealth fund is looking for U.S. properties at 50 cents on the dollar (New York Post) NBC Broadcasts Olympics via...
Let the gains begin. Fortune smiled upon stock markets last week, with the S&P 500 Index scoring its first back-to-back weekly gain since April as the US dollar rallied strongly and oil and commodities plummeted. The S&P 500's gain since the low of July 15 has been 6.7%, with the Financial SPDR up by 27.8%. Read all about this in Prieur du Plessis's guest blog post, highlighting some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week.
