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Food for Thought. Thoughtful debate and insightful observations/ commentary on actions/events in financial markets, investments, societies, and governments around the world that impact our lives. Also Oxstone Team’s Global Investment Commentary and Best Investment Ideas.

Chinese sovereign debt

Chinese sovereign debt The bonds that tie Japan wants to buy Chinese government bonds Dec 31st 2011 | TOKYO AND […]

By Aidualc | 31 Dec 11 | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

HSBC December Preliminary PMI Shows China Continuing to Contract

From The RightSite site, China’s manufacturing activity contracted in December while foreign direct investment fell for the first time in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 30 Dec 11 | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Lessons of the 1930s

Lessons of the 1930s There could be trouble ahead In 2008 the world dodged a second Depression by avoiding the […]

By Aidualc | 27 Dec 11 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Euro-zone: Damned with faint plans

Damned with faint plans Euro-zone government bonds have not been made safe—and the euro project remains in peril   THERE […]

By Aidualc | 26 Dec 11 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Difference between investment banks and merchant banks?

Merchant banks and investment banks, in their purest forms, are different kinds of financial institutions that perform different services. In […]

By M Guliyev | | Also posted in Investment Wisdom | Comments (0)

China Inc. Goes Global

By Karl P. Sauvant, Chazan, China’s economy is taking its next great leap forward: parts of its manufacturing sector are […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Dec 11 | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Competition In Brazil Increases, Bummer For DirecTV

In September 2011, Brazil’s government passed a law that is expected to expand pay-TV services in the country. [1] According […]

By M Guliyev | 24 Dec 11 | Also posted in Latin America | Comments (0)

Betting on Macau

By Mark Mobius,  Franklin Templeton Investments, I count myself fortunate that the continuous quest for good investment opportunities takes me […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Asia, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

S&P 500 Back to a Gain for 2011

By Jonathan Cheng, U.S. stocks rose for a fourth straight day, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index back into […]

By M Guliyev | 23 Dec 11 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, North America, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Financial advice from Christmas classics

Financial advice from Christmas classics Scrooge, the Grinch, Elvis, Snoopy and others have something to teach us about priorities and […]

By Aidualc | 22 Dec 11 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom | Comments (0)