Iran announced this week that it is enriching uranium to a higher level. This will put the country on course to build a nuclear bomb, observers say. President Obama was concerned enough to say Iran will soon face punishing sanctions.
David Rosenberg, chief economist & strategist for Gluskin Sheff now wonders if Iran will be the next shoe to drop. While Greece and [other countries at risk of default] have been getting all the press, dont take your eye off the prospect of a strike against Iran, either by Israel or Obama. Netanhyahu sounded very tough in a speech in Europe on Tuesday.
Punters might be tempted to take a flyer on the probability of an air strike against Iran. One way to do it is to buy some Iran contracts on the Intrade.com prediction market. The one predicting an air strike before June 30is trading around 10 points right now. If an air strike were to occur according to the contracts parameters, it should zoom to 100, for a tenfold gain.
The trouble is that the Iran contracts on Intrades prediction market are hardly traded. Its difficult to take a position of any size. Oh well, that leaves oil and gold for the punter, as Rosenberg notes.
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Iran and uranium enrichment
By Larry MacDonald
Iran announced this week that it is enriching uranium to a higher level. This will put the country on course to build a nuclear bomb, observers say. President Obama was concerned enough to say Iran will soon face punishing sanctions.
David Rosenberg, chief economist & strategist for Gluskin Sheff now wonders if Iran will be the next shoe to drop. While Greece and [other countries at risk of default] have been getting all the press, dont take your eye off the prospect of a strike against Iran, either by Israel or Obama. Netanhyahu sounded very tough in a speech in Europe on Tuesday.
Punters might be tempted to take a flyer on the probability of an air strike against Iran. One way to do it is to buy some Iran contracts on the Intrade.com prediction market. The one predicting an air strike before June 30is trading around 10 points right now. If an air strike were to occur according to the contracts parameters, it should zoom to 100, for a tenfold gain.
The trouble is that the Iran contracts on Intrades prediction market are hardly traded. Its difficult to take a position of any size. Oh well, that leaves oil and gold for the punter, as Rosenberg notes.