http://www.helpmetoretire.com Get out of the Rat Race ASAP! Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:38:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Steve Mcknight from propertyinvesting.com has just released his July video update. If you are a current property investor or home owner or you are thinking of entering the property market in the next 6 months then you will want to see this video. Steve McKnight covers: Everything you need to know about ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/07/16/july-2008-property-market-update-with-steve-mcknight/ On my recent property travels around the interweb, I've found these handy sites. http://www.hotspotting.com.au - this site allows you to purchase reports (most are $88) on hotspots, high growth areas, no go zones and more. http://www.positiverealestate.com.au/ - lists properties by investment strategy. For example if you are looking for subdivisions, strata titling ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/07/12/some-handy-property-links/ Today's report from our friends over at Invest4profit.com.au covers 9 top Australian companies. Paul Nojin covers these companies current price, 2009 price to earnings ratio and his comments on key prices and possible direction for the stocks. The Stocks covered are: Babcock & Brown    (bnb) Beach Petroleum     (bpt) Bluescope Steel      (bsl) Cochlear                (coh) David ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/06/04/invest-4-profit-free-asx-report-on-9-companies/ If you haven't heard of Residex before it's about time you did. Residex sell reports on predicted housing capital growth by area. You can get a report on the whole state or report on a single suburb or postcode. They have a good newsletter that is worth signing up for to with ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/05/11/excerpt-from-residex-report-the-property-market-as-a-whole-march-2008-quarter/ The Aussie dollar today went past .95c US to make a 24 year high. Unfortunately it got that high due to high inflation figures that were released today signaling a likely increase in interest rates in May. Looking at the Aussie $ vs US $ chart once it continues its ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/04/23/the-aussie-dollar-coal-and-qantas/ Are you interested in currency trading? Then this is your opportunity to learn for free using a practice account and also score your self a free book. Forex.com are offering the free "Currency trading for dummies" book with every new practice account set up until the end of April. You can sign ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/04/13/free-currency-trading-for-dummies-book/ In this free report the Alert Trader guys cover the ASX 200, the S & P 500 and plenty of Aussie stocks. Included in the report are plenty of short term buys and also their longer term view on how far the Aussie market will fall in the coming months. Check it ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/03/25/free-alert-trader-mind-your-markets-report/ Has America's financial system just been repeating mistakes from 3 generations ago? Having slowly broken free of the regulations put in place to stop such a banking crisis again it seems that yes, we are in repeat. The next few years will be very interesting - check out the full article here. http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/03/24/comparing-2008-with-1929/ I've found a great article that talks about the decline of the largest income bracket age group in America and its effects on GDP and the stock markets. The article uses Japan as a historic reference and then goes though the same charts with the current American situation. A very interesting read ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/03/09/the-decline-of-the-american-consumer/ With business sentiment continuing to fall, a standard normal recession is starting to sound good... But it seems many economists are now predicting a much worse Deep Recession. It seems that American housing prices may fall as much as 20% before leveling out leaving many with negative equity (owing more than ... http://www.helpmetoretire.com/2008/02/25/is-a-deep-recession-coming-to-the-us/