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Oil Prices Continue to Define Geopolitics

From Stratfor, Geopolitical diary, Editor’s Note: Oil prices dropped steeply Oct. 14, with crude oil futures falling 4.6 percent to […]

Warner Bros. Pumps Up Superheroes to Challenge Disney

By Anousha Sakoui and Doni Bloomfield, Bloomberg, Warner Bros., the biggest Hollywood studio, plans to release at least 10 superhero […]

How Do VC’s and Angels Value a Company?

Posted by Jeff Carter The other day I was talking to some people about early stage investing.  They hadn’t done it […]

Bitbond gets funding for its P2P bitcoin “crowdlending” platform

photo: Guardian/Guy Grandjean, James Ball SUMMARY:The German peer-to-peer loans outfit is going for the emerging markets, starting with those in […]

2014 EMERGING AND FRONTIER MARKETS – Assessing risk and opportunity

Cushman & Wakefield has evaluated the risks of acquiring office space in the most sought after emerging and frontier  markets. […]

QUEEN OF ENGLAND IN REAL ESTATE JV WITH CHINESE GOVT TO BUY MALL

  2014/08/18 BY MICHAEL COLE   You might think the Queen would want something a bit more posh than Fosse Park in […]

Microfluidics: The Most Important Advancement in Biology You May Have Never Heard Of

Chris Wood, Casey’s Research We’re on the cusp of a revolution in life-science research. This revolution promises to bring with […]

Investment-grade wine market versus other asset classes – which is better

People have invested in fine wines for more than 150 years, but wine grew into a more standardized investment class […]

Short Seller James Chanos Targets China’s Casino Industry

By Lynnley Browning, Newsweek, Famed investor James Chanos is increasingly training his skeptical eye — and multibillion-dollar war chest — […]

Hate stocks and bonds? Try alternative assets

  Jeff Reeves, Special to USA TODAY Despite a handsome rally for U.S. stocks recently, American investors are increasingly interested […]