Oxstones Investment Club™Credit ratings provide a useful measure for comparing fixed-income securities, such as bonds, bills and notes. Most companies are issued [...]
Difference between investment banks and merchant banks?
Merchant banks and investment banks, in their purest forms, are different kinds of financial institutions that perform different services. In [...]
Dow Futures rising
Broader indexes heading higher NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures are rising ahead of a trio of government reporters [...]
NYSE stocks posting largest volume increases
NEW YORK (AP) — A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on New York Stock Exchange at the close [...]
Buying bonds for safety is a losing strategy: Ave Maria manager
Good companies are selling at bargain basement prices (IN) Buying bonds for safety, when so many stocks are yielding such [...]
China Inc. Goes Global
By Karl P. Sauvant, Chazan, China’s economy is taking its next great leap forward: parts of its manufacturing sector are [...]
Competition In Brazil Increases, Bummer For DirecTV
In September 2011, Brazil’s government passed a law that is expected to expand pay-TV services in the country. [1] According [...]
Comeback Brands Of 2012
By Jenna Goudreau, “In times of uncertainty, we tend look back. We long for seemingly simpler times,” says Chris Anderson, [...]
Betting on Macau
By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton Investments, I count myself fortunate that the continuous quest for good investment opportunities takes me [...]
S&P 500 Back to a Gain for 2011
By Jonathan Cheng, U.S. stocks rose for a fourth straight day, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index back into [...]
