Oxstones Investment Club™From nakedcapitalism.com site, Yves Smith, This report by Reuters, suggesting that China was about to Do Something about its local […]
Berkshire Hathaway unit buys 3 Italian jewellers
Berkshire Hathaway jewellery unit to add new brands in Italy * Richline buys just one brand of earlier target Rosato […]
Home price bargains coming this summer.
Home prices are already a third off their highs, but this summer could bring the real discounts. Buyers are still […]
Apocalypse Not: Muni manager sees buying opportunity, not end of days
By Jeff Benjamin, Default scare gives way to nice yields, increased interest With the municipal bond market so far having […]
Housing in double-dip decline as prices fall again
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. home prices fell in March for the eighth straight month, confirming the beleaguered housing market has […]
Cities that weathered housing bust now suffering
Derek Kravitz and Alex Veiga, AP Business Writers, On Tuesday May 31, 2011, 5:40 pm WASHINGTON (AP) — Even cities […]
Looking For A High-Tech Job? Try Cotton.
By Adam Davidson, Unemployment is still at 9 percent, leaving more than 12 million Americans without work. But there are […]
The Man Behind Egypt’s Real Estate Rebellion
By Zainab Fattah and Mahmoud Kassem, Bloomberg, Hamdy El Fakhrany didn’t set out to strike a blow against Egyptian government […]
Private Company Markets, Many Opportunities With Many Caveats
From 247WallSt site, When you hear about shares of Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga, Pandora, Yelp, and others selling on […]
OXSTONE FOOD FOR THOUGHT – May 2011 – The rise of private lenders and a contrarian investment idea
By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management, Crisis Leads to New Opportunities Recently, many prominent investors […]