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Buying bonds for safety is a losing strategy: Ave Maria manager

Good companies are selling at bargain basement prices (IN) Buying bonds for safety, when so many stocks are yielding such […]

China Inc. Goes Global

By Karl P. Sauvant, Chazan, China’s economy is taking its next great leap forward: parts of its manufacturing sector are […]

Competition In Brazil Increases, Bummer For DirecTV

In September 2011, Brazil’s government passed a law that is expected to expand pay-TV services in the country. [1] According […]

Comeback Brands Of 2012

By Jenna Goudreau, “In times of uncertainty, we tend look back. We long for seemingly simpler times,” says Chris Anderson, […]

Betting on Macau

By Mark Mobius,  Franklin Templeton Investments, I count myself fortunate that the continuous quest for good investment opportunities takes me […]

S&P 500 Back to a Gain for 2011

By Jonathan Cheng, U.S. stocks rose for a fourth straight day, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index back into […]

Hirst, Warhol Prices Outperform S&P 500 in Art-Investment Index

By Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg, Art by Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index over the […]

Average 30-year mortgage rate a record 3.91 pct.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to a record 3.91 percent this week, the […]

Apple Should Trade $607: Gene Munster

He’s probably the most notorious Apple bull on the Street, but Gene Munster’s upside expectations for Apple stock (NASDAQ: AAPL […]

Rising prices behind 3.7% grocery retail market growth in 2011

PMR estimates that in 2011 the grocery retail market in Poland was worth close to PLN 250bn, nearly PLN 9bn […]