Chinese now the world’s biggest spending tourists

MADRID/FRANKFURT – Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world’s biggest-spending travelers after a decade of robust growth in the […]

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 […]

China to become Russia’s biggest oil client

From http://rt.com/business/china-become-russia-biggest-oil-client-667/ The desire for Russia and China to boost trading ties is making China Russia’s priority market, as European […]

Global Central Bank Gold Rush and Why Bundesbank Strikes First!

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Oxstones Investment Club, In an important surprise move reported a few weeks ago, Germany’s central […]

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. […]

Why The Uranium Sector Is Heating Up (URA, CCJ, NLR, DNN, FSSIF, UEXCF, REMX, RIO)

Jeb Handwerger: At the end of 2012 I was interviewed on uranium and indicated to investors to accumulate as the […]

Economic Growth–Great for Everyone but Investors?

By Alex Bryan | Morningstar By 2050 the world’s population is projected to reach 9 billion, up from 7 billion today. Nearly all […]

Emerging markets outlook 2013: more bulls than bears

(By EM) The bullish outlook for emerging markets for 2013 is supported by a “return from the abyss” for the […]

Facebook Backer Alisher Usmanov Now Focused on China

By Ilya Khrennikov and Sarah Frier , Bloomberg,  Billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who made more than $1 billion investing in Facebook […]

Russia and China’s Neighborly Interests

By Mark Mobius,  Franklin Templeton Blog, http://mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com/2012/11/15/russia-and-china/#more-1943 Whether our neighbors are as close as the airplane seat next to us […]