Oxstones Investment Club™by Thomas Kostigen, Market Watch, The world’s smallest stock exchange opened last week in Cambodia and joins a growing cadre […]
Platinum’s a Precious Metal, Too
by Myra P. Saefong, Market Watch, Move over gold and silver — it’s time for platinum to start getting the […]
Burbank Contrarian Bets on Saudis Show Why Oil Reality Helps Return 23.6%
By Edward Robinson, Bloomberg, As a hedge-fund manager who thrives on turbulence in the commodities markets, John Burbank couldn’t have […]
Emerging Market Fund Watch: MSCI Index Reclassification Doesn’t Change Much
From 247 WallSt site, In yesterday’s article about emerging market funds, we noted that three of the funds that track […]
Country default risk
From Bespoke Investment Group site, “Greece has really distinguished itself this week as the country that is most at risk […]
The Happiest Countries In The World
From 247 WallSt, What makes people happy? The question, which has been debated by philosophers for centuries, now is being […]
The Man Behind Egypt’s Real Estate Rebellion
By Zainab Fattah and Mahmoud Kassem, Bloomberg, Hamdy El Fakhrany didn’t set out to strike a blow against Egyptian government […]
Independent carbon bank needed to oversee ETS
by Tom Arup AN INDEPENDENT carbon bank, similar to the Reserve Bank, should be set up to oversee a carbon […]
U.S.-Pakistani Relations Beyond Bin Laden
By George Friedman, Stratfor, The past week has been filled with announcements and speculations on how Osama bin Laden was […]
The 15 Countries With The Highest Inflation Rates
Like death and taxes, no one escapes the ravages of inflation. These days, it’s the talk of folks from Caracas […]