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The Daily Reckoning Australia (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Is Buffett's buying a sign that the bottom is in for stocks? After all, didn't John Templeton plunk down money for every share selling for under a buck on the Dow at the bottom of the bear market that began with the '29 crash? "Before you rush out to buy Goldman's stock," writes my friend Porter Stansberry, "you should consider a few points". "First, you can't buy the kind of stock Buffett got on any...
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VesTopia.com (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Paul Castro wrote: "Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria" Sir John Templeton In Part I , I looked at the historical averages for rallies, pullbacks, uptrends and downtrends for the Russell 2000. In this post I will offer up a similar analysis of the Nasdaq Composite. I believe an uptrend began in the Nasdaq Composite on 03.10.2008 when the...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Sir John Templeton, the Wall Street investment manager whose death has been announced at the ripe old age of 95, was almost better known for his stock market sayings than his stock market performance, both of which are legendary. Particularly apposite for our times was the following: “ ‘It’s different this time’ are the most expensive words in the English language.”
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
THE LEGENDARY American investment guru Sir John Templeton, who has died aged 95, was as renowned in his heyday as Warren Buffett is today, for his success in reading the world's stock markets.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Times like these test the resolve of investors, with worries over rising inflation and loan defaults, stalled economic growth and slumping stock markets.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
If you wanted to honor John Templeton’s legacy of great investing, you might think about Franklin Templeton Founding Allocation, a mutual fund that holds three of the company’s best-known issues, including Templeton Growth.
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The "investor and philanthropist who devoted his later life to funding the scientific study of religion" has left this world — Philanthropist Sir John Templeton dies at 95 . I had a mutual fund that bore his name back in the roaring '90s; it failed. His prize, the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities , was the world's richest. Subscribe in a reader
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Sir John Templeton, an investor and mutual fund pioneer who dedicated much of his fortune to promoting religion and reconciling it with science, has died. He was 95.
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
John Templeton, an investor and mutual fund pioneer who dedicated much of his fortune to promoting religion and reconciling it with science, has died. He was 95.
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Controlled Greed (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
In May 1997, Charlie Rose conducted an hour-long interview with Sir John Templeton. The occasion was publication of Templeton's book, Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles . But as you'd expect, Rose takes the opportunity to explore Sir...
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Controlled Greed (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
I first encountered John Templeton in 1986 or 1987. It was either in the pages of Forbes, or one of his appearances on Louis Rukeyser's "Wall St. Week" PBS show. I also saw him on the old "Adam Smith" PBS...
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NPR Topics: Space (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
John Templeton, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, has died. Templeton was a pioneer of international investing and mutual funds in the years after World War II. He was also known for the prize that sought to reconcile science and religion.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The impressive long-term returns produced by John Templeton’s investment strategy made him an immensely popular speaker on the conference circuit. But his investing precepts were anything but popular.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
John Templeton, the legendary mutual-fund manager who was a pioneer of international investing and later committed much of his fortune to scientific causes, has died at 95.