Monthly Archives: October 2011

Boring event or person of the week-Oct,21,2011

No contest. Irish presidential hopeful Dana (yep for you foreign readers the one who represented us in the European song contest sometime back in 1755 !!). She even tried to ‘sex up’ her campaign with some story about a ‘press … Continue reading

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Reflections from the week-Oct,21,2011

Now I am VERY sorry about how Ireland centric this weeks HT is. Sincere apologies but I promise to be back to great internationalisation for the next edition. So please forgive me this week. And so something new for my … Continue reading

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Equity Corner

Just one tip for you this week. With the markets ultra sensitive to ‘rumours’ and ‘speculation’, it is time to be careful. But I do recommend Smurfit Kappa. A strong buy recommendation yesterday with a valuation estimate twice the current … Continue reading

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Thoughts for the week -Oct,21,2011

a) its amazing what you can achieve when you don’t care who gets the credit b) Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive c) People don’t fail, they give up d) a … Continue reading

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Biggest change in Dubai/Dublin this week-Oct,21,2011

Irish Government Departments are unfortunately full of THE MOST under-comp**ent and inc**able of taking the country out of its current financial and recovery predicament. They have grown up in a ‘community’ where they were not trained to understand how to … Continue reading

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Currency Corner

So the Euro volatility continued this week. More ‘Starbuck whispers’ (a reference to traders in London going for a ‘destressing’ coffee and creating a rumour that suits their ‘book’). And with every one a cent is either written off the … Continue reading

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