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HONG KONG (AFP) — When asked for his advice on how to survive the financial crisis, global investment guru Jim Rogers often tells his interlocutors: "Teach your children Mandarin."The 66-year-old financial commentator has practised what he preaches, in 2007 selling his mansion in New York and moving his family to Singapore."I am (in Asia) because this is the exciting part of the world. This is

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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, said he’s been buying shares of Chinese companies even as growth in the world’s fourth-largest economy slows. Rogers, 66, started buying Chinese shares in 1988 and is now favoring equities traded in Hong Kong and Singapore that are cheaper than yuan-denominated stocks in Shanghai. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, which

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LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Jim Rogers, one of the world's best known investors, has said the world's publicly listed airlines may have reached a bottom after a prolonged struggle against high oil prices and the economic downturn.Launching a new airline stock index with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), Rogers said the volume of airline bankruptcies, lower capacity and falling oil prices could see

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jim Rogers, the famous investor and author on commodities, said on Thursday the credit crisis has not killed the bull market in commodities as many imagined, but just dealt it a "horrible setback"."In 1987, we had a horrible decline in the stock market. Do you think that was the end of that bull market?" Rogers asked a panel of journalists at the Reuters Investment Outlook

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jim Rogers, one of the world's most prominent international investors, on Thursday called most of the largest U.S. banks "totally bankrupt," and said government efforts to fix the sector are wrongheaded.Speaking by teleconference at the Reuters Investment Outlook 2009 Summit, the co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, said the government's $700 billion rescue

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Renowned commodities investor Jim Rogers said on Thursday that he bought oil last week as crude prices collapsed to near four-year lows and that the world is running out of known oil reserves.Rogers told the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit in New York that he also closed his bets against the U.S. stock market in October, and plans to use the dollar's rally as an opportunity

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investor Jim Rogers said on Thursday he has been using the sharp rally in the U.S. dollar as an opportunity to exit assets denominated in the U.S. currency.Rogers told the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit 2009 in New York that the rally -- which has pushed the greenback up about 20 percent since July -- is a reversal of a "gigantic short position" accumulated over several

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Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The fundamentals of commodities are “unimpaired” and prices will rebound when a lack of new supply leads to shortages, said Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings. “Commodities will be the place to be if and when we come out of” the downturn, Rogers said yesterday in an interview from Miami. “The only thing where fundamentals are unimpaired are commodities. Farmers cannot

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Commodities are one of the only viable investment opportunities left and are set to rebound as demand problems take hold, while the outlook for the dollar is bleak, famed investor Jim Rogers said Friday.The dollar's days as the world's reserve currency are numbered, Rogers said at the World Money Show conference in London.The greenback faces serious devaluation as spiraling national debt and a

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Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The tumble in global equities may worsen because valuations are still too high, and bonds will be a ``terrible'' investment as economic problems persist until 2010, investor Jim Rogers said. Stocks in the U.S. and Europe ``are still expensive on any historic valuation method,'' the chairman of Singapore-based Rogers Holdings told a Seoul conference today. ``We may be

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The fundamentals for commodities were not affected by government policies that are propagating inflation, Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC Wednesday."I bought more agriculture this week," Rogers told "Squawk Box Europe." "What's happening is that there will be less supply of everything if we ever come out of (the credit crunch). Nobody can get a loan for a zinc mine or, long term,

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Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Investor Jim Rogers bought gold coins in Frankfurt last week, added more agriculture commodities today and is considering industrial metals and crude oil. ``Agriculture is cheap,'' Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told reporters at an ETF Securities Ltd. meeting in London today. ``The fundamentals for most commodities are not impaired.'' The 19 commodities in the

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investor and author Jim Rogers, one of the earliest to predict the boom in commodities of the last few years, said Friday that he recently bought agricultural commodities despite the sharp fall in prices."I've been buying agricultural commodities. I bought some a couple of days ago. It's down today. It did not matter, I bought them. I covered shorts yesterday," Rogers said on

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Markets do not trust the governments' plans to keep struggling banks alive and investors will only calm down when the companies with bad assets are allowed to go bankrupt, legendary investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC on Friday."The way to solve this problem is to let people go bankrupt," Rogers said."Then you will hit bottom and then you start over. The people who are sound

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The $700 billion bailout package that Congress is scrambling to pass will only prolong economic woes, legendary investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC on Wednesday. "History shows these plans don't work. What does work is to let the market clean itself out," Rogers told "Worldwide Exchange".Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, like his predecessor Alan Greenspan and together

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Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, chairman of Singapore-based Rogers Holdings, talks with Bloomberg's Catherine Yang about the outlook for commodity prices and his investment strategy for the currencies market.(Source: Bloomberg) (This is not a legal transcript of the interview. Bloomberg LP cannot guarantee its accuracy.) CATHERINE YANG, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Jim, OPEC's President now calling on the

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Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, the head of Rogers Holdings who correctly predicted the start of the commodities rally in 1999, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu from Singapore about Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s third- quarter loss, the outlook for investment banks and the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (Source: Bloomberg) (This is not a legal transcript of the interview

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Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. financials face more ``chaos'' as the credit market worsens, investor Jim Rogers predicted. ``Balance sheets of many of these financial institutions are still terribly impaired and there are more problems to come,'' he said during a Bloomberg Television interview. ``We had the worst credit bubble in the history of the world. You don't clean that out in a year or two

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Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Australia and New Zealand dollars, the worst performers this quarter among the world's major currencies, will likely recover after the unwinding of the carry trade ends, said investor Jim Rogers. ``I still own the Australian dollar,'' Rogers told Bloomberg Television. ``I'm not thinking of selling it because if I'm right, the reversal of the carry trade is not going to

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The nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shows that the U.S. is "more communist than China right now" but its brand of socialism is meant only for the rich, investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC Europe on Monday."America is more communist than China is right now. You can see that this is welfare of the rich, it is socialism for the rich… it's just bailing out financial

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Neither of the two contenders for president understands the economy and they are likely to cause more problems than they would solve, investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Jim Rogers holdings, told "Squawk Box Europe" on Friday. "Neither one of these guys understands what's going on, they don't understand currency markets, economies, they don't understand the world," Rogers said. "Both of them are going to

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The head of the European Central Bank should be running the Federal Reserve because he is doing a better job at protecting his economy, investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, told "Squawk Box Europe" on Friday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet can be depended on to fight inflation, which is a worse evil than recession, Rogers told "Squawk Box Europe."The economic stimulus

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Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly forecast the oil price would reach $100 a barrel and gold $1,000 an ounce, said he expects oil to continue to increase over the next decade. ``Over the course of time, it's a bull market,'' the chairman of Rogers Holdings said today after an investor conference in Kuala Lumpur. While the oil price could fall to $75 or rise to $175,

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Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly predicted oil would reach $100 a barrel and gold $1,000 an ounce, comments on investment in commodities, stocks and currencies. Rogers spoke in an interview in Bangkok before addressing an investor conference today. On commodities: ``Until either a lot of supply comes on stream or the economy collapses, the bull market will continue.

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Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly predicted oil would reach $100 a barrel and gold $1,000 an ounce, said the fundamentals for commodities are ``astoundingly'' good. The bull market for commodities ``has a long way to go,'' Rogers, 65, said today at an investor conference at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The bull market may end by 2020 based on historical

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Jim Rogers has a sector pick -- and a major pan: The CEO of Rogers Holdings told CNBC that the government should not bail out Fannie Mae [FNM 0.59 --- UNCH (0) ] or Freddie Mac [FRE 0.58 -0.01 (-1.69%) ], but should let them fail. The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve said they would bolster Fannie and Freddie with vast infusions of aid. But Rogers believes that will only

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The Treasury and the Federal Reserve should not bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as this would increase the already gaping U.S. public debt, investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, told "Worldwide Exchange."Asked if his remarks could be interpreted as trying to talk down the stock of the two companies, which have been plummeting recently, he said: "I've been short Fannie Mae since I came

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July 14 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury Department's plan to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is an ``unmitigated disaster'' and the largest U.S. mortgage lenders are ``basically insolvent,'' according to investor Jim Rogers. Taxpayers will be saddled with debt if Congress approves U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's request for the authority to buy unlimited stakes in and lend to Fannie

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June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly predicted oil would reach $100 a barrel and gold $1,000 an ounce, said investors should steer clear of the dollar as the U.S. economy slows and favor commodities this year. The dollar has slipped 7.7 percent against the euro and 5.9 percent versus the yen in 2008 as the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to stave off a U.S. recession.

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June 28 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly predicted oil would reach $100 a barrel and gold $1,000 an ounce, told investors not to ``give up'' on Chinese shares after the country's stock index fell almost 50 percent this year. ``Start buying when others say `never again','' Rogers, 65, said today at an investor conference in Nanjing. There is ``much money to be made'' from

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June 5 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, said the increase in the price of crude oil has ``years to go'' as known sources of petroleum are dwindling. ``I know that unless someone discovers a lot of oil, it can go to $150, $200'' a barrel, Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview. ``The facts are the world is running out of known oil reserves.'' Crude oil for July

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May 14 (Bloomberg) -- The rising dollar is a chance to buy the Japanese yen and Swiss francs that will benefit when investors sell currencies with higher yields, Jim Rogers, Chairman of Rogers Holdings, said today. Both will benefit as investors reduce carry trades, he said, referring to the practice of borrowing in currencies with low interest rates to buy currencies with higher yields. Rogers,

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May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, said too many investors are bearish on the U.S. dollar and the currency will have a ``nice'' rally.The dollar has declined 4.9 percent against the euro this year as widening credit-market losses and slowing economic growth prompted the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to head off a recession. Since Rogers said in an interview on

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May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros, said the global credit squeeze triggered by U.S. housing-loan delinquencies may not be nearing an end.``I doubt that we're half way through the financial crisis,'' Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, said at a Barclays Plc press conference in Singapore. ``We certainly haven't hit the bottom as far as I'm concerned

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April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Investor Jim Rogers is buying Chinese shares, among the world's worst performers this year, as the market has bottomed, and he's focusing on agriculture, tourism, airlines and education.``All my new money goes to commodities and China,'' said Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum fund with George Soros in the 1970s and correctly predicted the start of the commodities boom in

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TAIPEI, April 9 (Reuters) - Fund manager and investment author Jim Rogers said on Wednesday he is buying Taiwan's stocks and currency , two of Asia's top performers this year, amid optimism under a new president for reduced tensions with China."About six weeks ago, I started buying Taiwan stocks for the first time in my lifetime," Rogers, cofounder of the Quantum Fund with billionaire George

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should resign and the Fed should be abolished as a way to boost the falling dollar and speed up the recovery of the U.S. economy, investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC Europe Wednesday.Asked what he would do if he were in Bernanke's shoes, Rogers, who slammed the Fed for pouring liquidity in the system and accepting mortgage-backed securities

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investment guru Jim Rogers believes that U.S. bank stocks could fall further and predicts that Singapore's state investors will lose money on their multi-billion dollar investments in Citigroup and Merrill Lynch."I'm shorting investment banks on Wall Street," the long-time commodities bull told reporters on Wednesday at a launch event for ABN AMRO certificates linked to

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LONDON (Reuters) - New money is pouring into commodity markets because supply shortages mean rising prices and high returns for investors, investment guru Jim Rogers told Reuters on Tuesday.Some analysts say commodities this year have experienced a bubble, which will quickly deflate when short-term investors pull out, but along with large institutions such as pension funds, Rogers is in the

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Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, who predicted the start of the commodities rally in 1999, comments on the outlook for sugar, cotton and other commodities.He spoke today at the CLSA Japan Forum in Tokyo.On the outlook for agricultural:``If I told you how bullish I am about agriculture, you'd ask me to leave the room. Prices of agricultural commodities are going to explode. Inventories of food

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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The United States economy is already in recession and is set for a further slowdown with the dollar expected to remain under pressure, investment guru Jim Rogers said on Monday.Last week the U.S. central bank sharply lowered its forecast for U.S. economic growth in 2008 and said it was worried the economy could face further setbacks even after a series of aggressive interest

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Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Hedge Fund with George Soros, said he expects the dollar to advance this year and will use any gains to sell his remaining investments linked to the U.S. currency.The dollar will rally in the short term before it slumps again, said Rogers, chairman of New York-based Rogers Holdings. He didn't specify what would cause the gain and

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SINGAPORE, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Investment guru Jim Rogers said he expects a shakeout in China's property market, although he remains bullish on the country's long-term prospects."I expect to see some Chinese real estate speculators going broke this year," Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire George Soros in the 1970s, told the IMAS investment conference in Singapore on Tuesday.

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A rally in stocks is likely to follow the recent battering shares took globally because of fears of a U.S. recession, but such a rally would be short-lived, Jim Rogers, CEO of Roger Holdings, told "Squawk Box Europe."Hopes that the Federal Reserve will cut rates by a further 50 basis points this week after last week's surprise 75 basis points cut lifted Asian and European stocks Tuesday, but

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - The resources boom that saw oil hit the $100 barrier for the first time on Wednesday and propelled gold to a record is in no danger of petering out, says Jim Rogers, a long-time, high-profile commodities bull.The American investor says he is convinced that a decade or more of gains lies ahead for the sector, even after oil hit the triple-digit mark that he has predicted for

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar is sinking fast and investors wanting to stay afloat should clamber into a raft of commodities and benefit from the rising tide of China's economic boom, investment guru Jim Rogers said on Monday."I'm hoping to get all my assets out of U.S. dollars in the next few weeks or months," he told reporters in Hong Kong via a video link from Singapore. "But that will

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LONDON (Reuters) - The United States has entered a recession, according to highly-regarded investor Jim Rogers, who told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper on Wednesday he was switching out of the dollar and into yen, the yuan and the Swiss franc.The veteran investor, who predicted the 1999 commodities rally, also said he was still bullish about surging Chinese stock markets despite worries over

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's stock market is dangerously high but environmental protection, water, railways and renewable energy stocks are still worth holding, fund manager and investment author Jim Rogers said on Thursday.Rogers, in a presentation at a conference, also reiterated his view to dump dollars and bonds and stay bullish on commodities, such as oil and aluminum. Gold was still going

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Fund manager and investment author Jim Rogers said he was selling stock in Wall Street banks because of a likely housing market slump and suggested buying sugar as a way into commodities.Rogers, who co-founded the Qantum hedge fund with billionaire investor George Soros in 1970, is a long-time commodity bull and believes that fast growth in Asia, especially China, makes the

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's yuan has further to climb against the dollar and could rise by up to 500 percent over the next 20 years, U.S. fund manager Jim Rogers said Tuesday at the Reuters Hedge Funds and Private Equity Summit.Rogers, who co-founded Quantum hedge fund with billionaireinvestor George Soros in the 1970s, urged investors to hold the yuan and said he is "extremely bearish" on the

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment industry icon Jim Rogers, who helped launch one of the world's best performing hedge funds, said on Tuesday that he is betting against U.S. home builders and expects the sector will suffer more losses."I am short home builders and Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)," Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with hedge fund industry legend

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Commodities investment guru Jim Rogers said on Tuesday he expects oil prices to hit $100 a barrel as part of a larger commodities bull run that could last another 15 years.With new oil discoveries struggling to keep up with rising demand from emerging economies in China and India, Rogers said crude prices will surge past historical highs."The surprise is going to be how high

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HONG KONG, March 29 (Reuters) - Commodities and investment guru Jim Rogers said on Thursday he was holding on to his Chinese shares, even though the market is pricey and a bubble may be developing."I own Chinese shares. I'm not selling Chinese shares. If the Chinese stock market doubles again this year I'll have to sell, because then it's a full-fledged bubble," he told a media briefing after a

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Commodities investment guru Jim Rogers stepped into the U.S. subprime fray on Wednesday, predicting a real estate crash that would trigger defaults and spread contagion to emerging markets."You can't believe how bad it's going to get before it gets any better," the prominent U.S. fund manager told Reuters by telephone from New York."It's going to be a disaster for many people

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prominent emerging markets investor Jim Rogers said Russian equity markets were overvalued and could burst "sooner rather than later," revealing the skeletons in the cupboard of its "outlaw capitalism.""I wouldn't put a nickel of my own money in Russia, and I wouldn't put a nickel of your money there either," Rogers, a long-time commodities bull, told Reuters by telephone from

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Jim Rogers fears the worst is yet to come for the market -- but he's still optimistic, in ways that may surprise. The commodities trader and author joined "Closing Bell" to share his insights on perils and opportunities.Rogers, who penned investment books including Hot Commodities, told CNBC's Maria Bartiromo that yesterday's "3% or so" change in the market was not a true correction: "Normally,

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's only a matter of time before the beleaguered U.S. dollar loses its status as the world's reserve currency and medium of exchange, U.S. fund manager and author Jim Rogers told Reuters in an interview."The dollar is a terribly flawed currency," said Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum hedge fund with billionaire investor George Soros in the 1970s.He urged investors to

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SEOUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) - U.S. investor Jim Rogers said on Thursday travel agencies, water-related firms, and airlines were among his favourite sectors in Asia, and saw chances to make money in areas that would benefit from an increase of the influence of women in the region.Rogers, who is primarily known for his bets in commodity markets but invests in stocks as well, was also bullish about China

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