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Desalination Seen Booming at 15% a Year as World Water Dries Up

By Matt Craze – Feb 14, 2013 Bloomberg Markets Magazine In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, 158,438 residents of […]

By MarketAngel | 26 Mar 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Finding Oxstones, Latin America, North America, Private Equity | Comments (0)

China to become Russia’s biggest oil client

From http://rt.com/business/china-become-russia-biggest-oil-client-667/ The desire for Russia and China to boost trading ties is making China Russia’s priority market, as European […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Great Disconnect

By: Kemal Derviş, Brookings Institute, Since the second half of 2012, financial markets have recovered strongly worldwide. Indeed, in the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Mar 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

More Good News for Uranium: China’s Nuclear Energy Build-Out (NYSEARCA:URA)

It’s no secret uranium prices have plummeted since the Great Recession and Japan’s Fukushima disaster. In 2007, a pound of […]

By MarketAngel | 22 Mar 13 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones | Comments (0)

30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Will Change The Lives Of Every Person On The Planet

The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are […]

By MarketAngel | 19 Mar 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, North America, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China to Free Yuan in 5 Years, Says Hong Kong Exchanges’ Li

By Matthew Leising and Fion Li, Bloomberg, China, the world’s second-largest economy, will open its markets and allow its currency […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 17 Mar 13 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Brazil’s Richest Family Forging $13 Billion Niobium Dream

By Cristiane Lucchesi and Alex Cuadros, Bloomberg, In 1965, U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur W. Radford persuaded Walther Moreira Salles, a […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, Private Equity | Comments (0)

A New Chapter for Turkey?

By Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors, Inc. From Daily Reckoning, In 2012, Turkey was the best performer among the emerging […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 14 Mar 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Yuan Overtakes Ruble as World Payments Currency: SWIFT

For the first time, China’s yuan has overtaken the Russian ruble for transactions in the global payment system, according to […]

By Aidualc | 12 Mar 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

This Colorful Table Shows Why You Should Diversify Your Emerging Markets Portfolio

By Sam Ro, From Business Insider, http://www.businessinsider.com/usfunds-em-periodic-table-2013-3 If you’re lucky, then you might be able to pick the right stocks […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 11 Mar 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Eastern Europe, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)