Barrick Gold Becomes An Oil Producer?
Barrick’s bid to acquire Cadence Energy surprised me at first. After all, Barrick is a gold miner, right?
The nature of the bid was surprisingly local. Cadence is a small oil driller; we’re talking tiny. They produce 3,600 barrels of oil a day. I mean, why bother? The short answer is this: Barrick is thinking globally, […]
Public Sector Salaries In Illinois
Ok! this is interesting. I have came across many articles during this 2 weeks about California and some states in US slashing public sector’s wages. While i am neutral on why the need to do that, this article gives me a glimpse of why they are all running budget deficits.
Let’s take a look at some […]
Timber Agg 2:How to invest in timber
The best way to describe my feeling after reading this second article is like buying that candy and realise it didn’t taste that well to awful.Here George Nichols outline that in truth, timber investing is but a myth for the average investors. The ETFs and the REITs out there are not pure play in these […]
Timber Agg 1: Introduction to Timber Investing
Here we at Investment Moats, we hope to to discover good asset classes or instruments that are obscure to most investors, especially Singaporean Investors.I first heard about timber sometime back but didn’t really follow up on this since I thought this is just another agriculture. Little did i know it is very wrong. In this […]
