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Jack Ma Takes in $5.75 Bil – And Takes on China’s Real Estate Barons

By Michael Cole, Mingtiandi, Not satisfied with sales of RMB 35 billion ($5.75 billion) over his e-commerce sites on a […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Nov 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Real Estate, Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

How to choose the right emerging-market ETF

By Charles Sizemore, MarketWatch, It’s been a rotten year for emerging markets. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) — […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 15 Nov 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Statistics, Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Greenland Group to Acquire $4 Bil New York Project

Start spreading the news, another of China’s real estate giants is determined to make it on the world’s biggest stage, […]

By Aidualc | 13 Nov 13 | Also posted in North America, Real Estate | Comments (0)

U.S. to become world’s top oil producer in 2015 – IEA

By Alex Lawler, Ron Bousso and Peg Mackey LONDON (Reuters) – The United States will stride past Saudi Arabia and […]

By M Guliyev | 12 Nov 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, North America, Regions, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

When Small is Big

By Mark Mobius, FranklinTempleton Mobius Blog, There’s a popular saying in the US, “good things come in small packages,” which […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 06 Nov 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Eastern Europe, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Statistics | Comments (0)

The PC16: Identifying China’s Successors

By George Friedman, Stratfor, China has become a metaphor. It represents a certain phase of economic development, which is driven […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 31 Oct 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

How Alibaba Could Underprice Amazon, and Other Things You Should Know

By Danielle Kucera, Bloomberg, Here’s an SAT analogy test for you: Alibaba is to China as [blank] is to the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 Oct 13 | Also posted in Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Africa’s “Glass With Attitude”

by Mark Mobius  Africa has been an area of interest to our team, for many reasons. One might say Africa’s […]

By Brian Andreosky | 26 Oct 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Invest in Azerbaijan

Azeribaijan located at the crossroad of Europe and Asia is the gateway to the Eastern Europe and Middle Eastregion. It […]

By M Guliyev | 20 Oct 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Private Equity, Regions, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Bitcoin Spawns China Virtual IPOs as U.S. Scrutiny Grows

Sun Minjie is a 28-year-old Internet worker who lives in Beijing. Eager to profit from growing demand for the digital […]

By Aidualc | 18 Oct 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)