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I’m Worried

By David Kotok,  cumber.com site, A note to readers. This 2000-word commentary is a longer-term view; think in terms of […]

Singapore – Gateway to Southeast Asia

By Mark Mobius and Dennis Lim, Mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com/2012/03/31/singapore-gateway-to-southeast-asia/#more-1388 Singapore is a special place for me. This small city with few natural […]

Yale’s Shiller: US Could Have Japanese-Style Housing Slump

By Julie Crawshaw, Moneynews.com, Yale economist Robert Shiller says the United States could experience a Japanese-style housing slump that lasts […]

2012 Country Stock Market Returns

From Bespoke Investment Group Site, With Europe and Asia experiencing big declines over the past couple of days, below is […]

Shale Oil and Gas in China

by Peter Staas, investing daily,  In last week’s issue of The Energy Letter, we focused on the growing gap between […]

Seven Election Year Chinese Stocks

By Ken Fisher, Forbes, Last year was a dismal year for Chinese stocks. The popular FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index of […]

Substantial increase in demand for construction equipment in Russia

Over the last decade, construction machinery stock owned by construction companies in Russia has been depleted by 40-60% on average, […]

SOHO Chief Says Housing Policies Are Biggest Risk to China’s Economy

By Michael Cole, Mingtiandi, In the latest sign of the pressures that China’s restrictions on residential real estate are putting […]

How Myanmar Liberates Asia

By Robert D. Kaplan, Stratfor Myanmar’s ongoing liberalization and its normalization of relations with the outside world have the possibility […]

Where Asia’s richest man is putting his money now

By Russell Flannery, Forbes.com, from theglobeandmail, Even at 83, Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, gets more done by lunch than […]