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Dennis Gartman, economist and editor of The Gartman Letter.
By Dave Pond, Web Communication
Dennis Gartman, editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, will offer his thoughts on the global financial crisis during a Millennium Seminar Series presentation to be held Thursday in Stewart Theatre. Gartman, who was engaged in graduate study at NC State during the early 1970’s, will speak at 6 p.m. This is a free event, open to NC State students, faculty, staff and members of the general public.
Gartman, who has produced the Letter on a daily basis since 1987, will focus his remarks on the worldwide financial meltdown, its effect on global and foreign markets, and what investors can and should do during this difficult economic time.
The Gartman Letter, a daily commentary on the global capital markets, is subscribed to by leading banks, broking firms, hedge funds, mutual funds, energy and grain trading companies around the world. Gartman appears often on CNBC, ROB-TV and Bloomberg television discussing commodities and the capital markets, and speaks before various associations and trade groups around the world.
Gartman graduated from the University of Akron in 1972 and went to graduate school at NC State, before finding employment as an economist for Cotton Inc., analyzing cotton supply/demand in the U.S. textile industry. From there, Gartman went to North Carolina National Bank where he traded foreign exchange and money market instruments.
He became the chief financial futures analyst for A.G. Becker & Company in Chicago during the late 1970s, and was an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade, trading in treasury bond, treasury note and GNMA futures contracts. In the mid 1980s, Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for the Virginia National Bank, before starting the Letter.
NC State's Millennium Seminar Series complements the university's land-grant mission to transform lives and improve the human condition through innovation and discovery, and is designed to engage, encourage and inspire NC State students throughout the academic year.
A diverse collection of speakers has been recruited for the 2008-09 program – including former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton – to discuss some of the key issues facing our world today. Archived presentation footage is available online as well as on the university's official YouTube channel.
