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Is Spain the Next Target for Chinese Real Estate Investors?

After having successfully driving up real estate values in Hong Kong and Singapore, Chinese investors may have some new investment […]

Americans need financial education, report says

By Herb Weisbaum, CNBC, Financial service companies spend billions of dollars a year marketing their products and services—credit cards, checking […]

Beijing’s Wangfujing Now Among Asia’s 10 Priciest Retail Locations

From http://www.mingtiandi.com China’s growing taste for shopping is pushing up retail rents in the world’s second-largest economy, and now a […]

Irish Passports – One to Buy; One You May Be Entitled To

By Bob Bauman Ireland is the land of literary giants James Joyce and W.B. Yeats. It is the land of […]

The Future of OPEC

Pump jacks in the Kurdish town of Derik, on the border with Turkey and Iraq, Nov. 25. (ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) […]

China Poised to Overtake the U.S. Yet Again. This Time as the New Wine Country.

The Chinese love their vinos – as well as imports from popular grape-growing areas like the U.S., France and Australia – […]

Patience in Asia

By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton Blog, Investing in a multitude of markets and companies as we do within the Templeton […]

Which Cities Americans Are Moving to – and Escaping From

For much of the nation’s history, Americans moved around mostly to find decent work. But these days, people may be […]

Ten Classic American Brands That Are Foreign-Owned

In September, major U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods was purchased by Chinese holding company Shanghui International Holdings, Ltd for $4.7 […]

Opportunity’s Knocking in Leon, Nicaragua

By Jason Holland Canadian Andrew Blyth first came to Leon, Nicaragua, seven years ago to look after some properties his […]