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Trends, Patterns, Indicators

Identifying consistent patterns and trends in business and in the financial markets. Useful key indicators for market timing, warning signals, bullish investing signals, and trading/investing opportunities.

PING AN RAMPING UP OUTBOUND DEALS BY 500%, HAS $22.5B TO SPEND

BY MICHAEL COLE Ping An and China Life are each investing $167 million into Tishman Speyer’s Pier 4 project in […]

By MarketAngel | 19 Oct 16 | Also posted in Asia, North America, Real Estate | Comments (0)

Behind Closed Doors at the IMF

By Jim Rickards Jim RickardsThe Washington, D.C., area is thick with secret agencies with“three-letter names,” such as CIA, FBI, NSA […]

By MarketAngel | 18 Oct 16 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Silver — Once and Future Money

  Jim Rickards Before the Renaissance, world money existed as precious metal coins or bullion. Caesars and kings hoarded gold […]

By Aidualc | 13 Oct 16 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

London Property Market Feels the Pressure

While there are signs that the National UK housing market hasn’t lost too much steam during August and the early […]

By Davis Miller | 06 Oct 16 | Also posted in Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Making Sense of Low Volatility Investing

By Feifei Li, Research Affiliates, 1/31/13 Robert A. Haugen, who passed away this month, found that stocks with lower price […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 04 Oct 16 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Stocks, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Big U.S. brokerages chase the rich in departure from retail roots

By Olivia Oran and Elizabeth Dilts | NEW YORK Big U.S. brokerages are redefining the term “wealthy” in their pursuit […]

By Aidualc | 03 Oct 16 | Also posted in Private Equity, Retirement & Savings, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

London Property Still Out of Reach Despite Brexit-Related Price Wobbles

As London house price growth eases – in the luxury market in the West of the capital at least – […]

By Davis Miller | 01 Oct 16 | Also posted in Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

CHINA LIFE TO RAMP UP OVERSEAS DEALS IN WAKE OF 67% PROFIT PLUNGE

BY GREG ISAACSON China Life set a record with its $755 million purchase of a tower at One Harbourgate in […]

By Aidualc | 27 Sep 16 | Also posted in Asia, North America, Real Estate | Comments (0)

No one wants your old clothes

Textile waste is piling up at catastrophic levels thanks to the fast-fashion industry. Visitors who stepped into fashion retailer H&M’s […]

By Aidualc | 23 Sep 16 | Also posted in Commodities, Food for Thought, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Tracking the Growth Catalysts in Emerging Markets

By Nick Niziolek, Calamos Investments, The majority of the improved outlook and positive returns we’ve seen year to date in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Sep 16 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Stocks | Comments (0)