Monday, July 16, 2012

Marc Faber : Beware China but Not Commodities

“The markets are very volatile and it takes a lot of courage to be short,” Marc Faber told CNBC this morning “I don't want to be short copper because copper can, like other markets, be manipulated because there are not that many players in the copper market, and so we could see a rally in copper prices, we could see a rally in gold prices and so forth and so on.” “I think…investors must realize that the impact of a slowdown in the Chinese economy, which in my view is much larger than what the government has been reporting, the government says GDP has been growing at 7.8%”, he explained. “In my view, it's much lower.” - in CNBC

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Dr Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics magna cum laude. Between 1970 and 1978, Dr Faber worked for White Weld & Company Limited in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong. Since 1973, he has lived in Hong Kong. From 1978 to February 1990, he was the Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd. In June 1990, he set up his own business, which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager.