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Hedgie Och-Ziff Jumps 1% On Surge In New Money, Fund Performances

By Murray Coleman, Barron’s, Hedge fund manager Och-Ziff (OZM) is up more than 1% after reporting assets under management surged […]

The Happiest Countries In The World

From 247 WallSt, What makes people happy? The question, which has been debated by philosophers for centuries, now is being […]

Food prices slightly lower

ROME (AP) — Global food prices fell slightly in May, but they will remain “at stubbornly high levels” for months […]

Startup, dropout: The China tech IPO boom is only beginning

By Bill Powell, Fortune, Investors are pitching the Zuckerberg-Gates-Google model of college-kid startups at China’s prestigious universities. And the kids are […]

Why It’s Time To Buy

Why It’s Time To Buy The Clouds Haven’t Quite Parted, But the Long-Term Case for Home Ownership Is Looking Stronger […]

Soros Is Selling His Gold — Should You Too?

t could be brains. Or it might be intuition. Or it could just be luck. But whatever it is, it […]

The Currency That’s Up 200,000 Percent

by Jack Hough, Smart Money, Bitcoins are the top-performing money in the world — but what are they? The best […]

The Value Of Picking Great Managers & Stocks (Post Ira Sohn)

By Murray Coleman, Barron’s Blog, Last week, my colleague Avi Salzman blogged from the Ira Sohn event, which featured top […]

Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way

From Forbes Blog, Halah Touryalai, Warren Buffett called them weapons of mass destruction. Now those same products, known as derivatives, […]

China’s Manufacturing Slowest in 9 Months, New Orders Suggest Manufacturing May Have Already Peaked; Australia Biggest GDP Drop in 20 Years

From globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com, By Mike “Mish” Shedlock, Weak economic reports in the US, Europe, Australia, and China tell the same story: […]