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Line Up Your Sources for the War in Iraq

By David Edwards

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 In 1815, banker Nathan Rothschild used advanced knowledge of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, provided by carrier pigeons, to front-run the British securities markets. In 1990, Wall Street traders introduced televisions to trading floors to get CNN's broadcasts from Baghdad. In the Internet era, there's almost too much information on what may well be the most advertised war in history. How do you separate information from opinion, opinion from propaganda? By my estimates, the S&P 500 is about 15% lower and the price of a barrel of oil is $5 higher than they would be if war with Iraq was not on the horizon. Uncertainty about this war affects the prices of gold, treasury bonds, international markets and insurance rates on shipping. During the next few months, tracking any military action in Iraq is vital for investors -- and the smartest of the bunch will know where to...

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