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Should central banks now sell gold?

  Central banks in debt-strapped countries have a golden opportunity ahead of them, if you will excuse the pun, to […]

By zoltanakb | 13 Apr 13 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Vanguard: Fundamentals Useless for Predicting Stock Returns

Fundamentals — corporate earnings, profit margins and gross domestic productFundamentals (GDP) growth — are supposed to be the ultimate guide […]

By Aidualc | 11 Apr 13 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, North America, Western Europe | Comments (0)

CHART OF THE DAY: Proof That You Stink At Investing

Most investors understand that they are unlikely to beat the major stock market indexes. Still, many investors remain convinced that […]

By MarketAngel | 10 Apr 13 | Also posted in North America, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Insider buying of gold stocks surges to multi-year highs

By Darcy Keith, The Globe and Mail, The TSX global gold index has lost about a third of its value […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, North America, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

How Much Do You Need to Save for Retirement, Really?

From www.millersmoney.com, By Dennis Miller Human beings are, by nature, heuristic. Although we are immensely intelligent, our brains are not […]

By MarketAngel | 09 Apr 13 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, North America, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Wood – The fuel of the future? Environmental lunacy in Europe

From the Economist, WHICH source of renewable energy is most important to the European Union? Solar power, perhaps? (Europe has […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Bullish on Coal: Contrarian Dream or Nightmare?

If there is one great American industry that has been left for dead, it is the U.S. coal industry. With […]

By Aidualc | 08 Apr 13 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, North America, Stocks | Comments (0)

KKR to Carlyle Target $3.6 Trillion in 401(k)s Accounts

By Margaret Collins and Devin Banerjee, Bloomberg Private-equity firms, the exclusive money managers overseeing $3 trillion worldwide for the wealthiest […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Hedge Fund, Investment Wisdom, North America, Private Equity, Retirement & Savings, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Chinese now the world’s biggest spending tourists

MADRID/FRANKFURT – Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world’s biggest-spending travelers after a decade of robust growth in the […]

By Aidualc | 06 Apr 13 | Also posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Strategic Importance of the Yangtze River – VIDEO

By Stratfor, Click on YouTube Video Link on Yangtze River Strategic Importance to Chinese economy

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