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What Spanish Property Taught Me About Investing in Commodities

Contrarian investing is an enviable skill. Today, there are several markets that may be due for a boom, but how can investors know for sure?
Nicholas Vardy explains how to identify an ideal investment.

I remember traveling to the southern coast of Spain in the summer of 2010 to look at real estate investments.
The Spanish property market had crashed. Bank financing had disappeared. Foreign buyers had dried up. Some properties were going for 40% below their asking prices of just two years earlier.
Buying Spanish property after a crash appealed to my contrarian instincts. But in the end, I couldn’t pull the trigger.
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Boeing CEO tells U.S. lawmakers at hearing: ‘We’ve made mistakes’; faces tough questions

Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg was pressed by U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday over what the company knew about its MCAS stall-prevention system linked to two deadly crashes, and about delays in turning over internal 2016 messages that described erratic behavior of the software in a simulator.

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UPDATE 2-Boeing CEO tells U.S. lawmakers at hearing: 'We've made mistakes'; faces tough questions

Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg was pressed by U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday over what the company knew about its MCAS stall-prevention system linked to two deadly crashes, and about delays in turning over internal 2016 messages that described erratic behavior of the software in a simulator. In an appearance that began at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) before the Senate Commerce Committee, Muilenburg acknowledged errors. For months, Boeing had largely not acknowledged blame and, instead, vowed to make a “safe plane safer.” Tuesday’s hearing represents Boeing’s broadest acceptance of responsibility that it made mistakes, …read more […]

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UPDATE 1-Pentagon announces F-35 jet prices for next three years

The Pentagon announced pricing details on Tuesday for its agreement with Lockheed Martin Co that lowers the cost of the F-35 jets it plans to purchase through 2022 by 12.7%, which may encourage other nations to buy warplanes. The F-35A, the most common version of the aircraft, will cost $82.4 million in 2020, $79.17 million in 2021 and $77.9 million per jet, the Pentagon told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday. Over the three years, the agreement will be worth $34 billion for 478 F-35 fighter jets. …read more […]