Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left??? Part III

By: Eric Sprott, From Sprott Global site, Recent dramatic declines in gold prices and strong redemptions from physical ETFs (such […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Jul 13 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, North America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Russia breaks into top 5 world economies, displacing Germany

Russia has overtaken Germany as the fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the latest World […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 24 Jul 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Foreign Buyers Aren’t Playing A Key Role In The US Housing Recovery For 2 Reasons

By Mamta Badkar – Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:17 AM EDT Foreign buyers jumped into the U.S. housing market after the bubble […]

By DennisGao | 12 Jul 13 | Posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Lessons from an Accidental Entrepreneur

By Sharon Kahn , From Chazen Global Insights, He calls himself an accidental entrepreneur, but Patanjali (Patu) Keswani, chairman and […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 May 13 | Posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Private Equity, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Bric stocks: their time will come (soon)

by Stefan Wagstyl, From FT Blog, The underperformance of Bric equities is becoming an embarrassment for investors who are long […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 01 May 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Singapore Will Replace Switzerland as Wealth Capital

By: Robert Frank, From CNBC, Thanks in part to its generous tax regime, Singapore has been a millionaire haven for […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 Apr 13 | Posted in Asia, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

BRICS and China’s Aspiration for the New “International Order”

By Yun Sun, Brookings Institute, The destinations of new Chinese leader’s first foreign tour are always carefully chosen and reflect […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Apr 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Will Change The Lives Of Every Person On The Planet

The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are […]

By MarketAngel | 19 Mar 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, North America, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Nurturing Undiscovered Companies

By Mark Mobius, From Templeton Blog Emerging economies can tend to have higher growth rates and can be more dynamic […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 07 Mar 13 | Posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Latin America, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Investors’ most favored market in February is…

Asset allocators are overweight equities and underweight bonds and cash, with high overweight positions in emerging markets, a survey shows. […]

By M Guliyev | 18 Feb 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Regions, Stocks, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)