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February 2015

2015: the Recovery Year for Energy and Commodities?

Last year was a dismal year for oil, the energy sector in general, commodities, and gold. Following through with the […]

2015: Why’s the Oil Price Collapsing? Answer: $8+ Trillion Carry Trade

By: DK_Matai   Most in the media are utterly clueless about what’s coming in 2015. It is incumbent upon ATCA 5000 […]

Can these robots make you rich?

  MarketWatch By Natasha Burton What robo advisers can and can’t do for youRobo advisers: They sound like something out […]

Farmland: An Overlooked Opportunity

By: Jason Simpkins Over the past decade, US farmland has outpaced every other major asset class; indeed, farmland investments have […]

Industrial Expansion Will Strain Mexico’s Water Resources

From Stratfor, Summary Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment of an occasional series on water scarcity issues around the […]

Earn $13,000 a year selling your feces

  The Washington Post   © The Washington Post Since 2013, a non-profit, OpenBiome, has been processing and shipping loads of […]

Will China’s Year of the Goat Bring Out the Market Bulls?

From Mobius Blog, According to the Chinese calendar, 2015 is the Year of the Goat (or sheep), creatures that are typically […]

Reforms in Asia Bring Big Potential for Small Companies

At Templeton Emerging Markets Group, we believe Asia’s combination of rapid economic growth, generally strong national finances and economic fundamentals […]

‘Boring’ stocks generate better returns, study says

By Wallace Witkowski, MarketWatch, The exciting stocks in your portfolio may not be all they’re cracked up to be as […]

Cohen & Steers: The Right REITs

Holding up through much of the market’s recent volatility has been real estate investment trusts, explains Bob Carlson, editor of Retirement Watch. […]