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China Credit Squeeze Prompts Suicides

From Bloomberg News site, Hours after a creditor and his gang of tattooed thugs hustled Zhong Maojin into a coffee […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 15 Nov 11 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Russian construction market resumes robust growth

The Russian economy appears to be supporting long-term growth in the country’s construction industry. The latest statistics show that the […]

By pmr | | Also posted in Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Real Estate | Comments (0)

Born in the USA: A Look at What Could Go Right

By Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc, from Schwab website, Key Points The expectations bar has […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 11 Nov 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

China Online Sales Seen Tripling Driving Warehouse Surge: Retail

From Bloomberg, China’s largest online retailers expect sales to as much as triple next year, setting off a rush for […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 07 Nov 11 | Also posted in Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Is China Headed for a Hard Landing?

By John Bishop, InvestingDaily China’s third-quarter economic growth slowed to its weakest pace in two years, suggesting that the government’s […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Nov 11 | Also posted in The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Chinese investment in the US creates jobs, experts say

By Zhang Yuwei (China Daily), NEW YORK – At a time when the United States is going through a slow […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 02 Nov 11 | Also posted in North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

PIMCO Debuts Australian Bond ETF

ETFguide.com, On Tuesday November 1, 2011 PIMCO launched the first of three new bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) targeting individual countries. […]

By M Guliyev | | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Stocks | Comments (0)

China: Screaming Deal or Value Trap?

By Dan Caplinger, Motley Fool, Most international investors have had their attention focused squarely on Europe for the past several […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 01 Nov 11 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, Stocks | Comments (0)

China searches for the next Steve Jobs

By Kathrin Hille in Beijing, FT, When Dave McClure, a venture capital investor from Silicon Valley, spoke at an internet […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 30 Oct 11 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Worthless Stocks from China

On an April afternoon in 2009, in his home office outside Austin, Tex., John Bird was hunched over his computer […]

By DennisGao | 26 Oct 11 | Also posted in Stocks | Comments (0)