Moneynews RSS FeedTue, 20 Sep 2011 07:14:10 EDTEuropean leaders have been meeting with Chinese officials, as well as with other BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) leaders. With the eurozone debt crisis dominating the news, French banks being downgraded and the euro currency at a low against the dollar and other...Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:42:34 EDTThe recent World Economic Forum s Global Competitiveness Report, which ranks countries factors as varied as education, health, and labor efficiency, technological readiness and innovation, positioned the United States in fifth place. For the past three years, the United...Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:39:36 EDTThe recent halt in trading of the shares of Sino Forest, the Toronto listed Chinese forestry company that is fighting allegations of fraud, has scared many investors in the world s second largest economy. In addition to this negative event, investors have also been...Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:37:30 EDTA recent Newsmax article by former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra points out the dismal policy of the Obama administration of not taking more aggressive action in Libya. Unlike the assertive action in Afghanistan and Iraq, where the United States had...Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:44:56 EDTThe recent plunge of stock markets around the globe of some 10 percent in August only makes the need of rebalancing investment portfolios pressing. Traditional portfolio theory stresses the need to rebalance once a year after thinking carefully of exposure and basic...Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:06:16 EDTIn recent months, the dollar and the euro have dropped sharply against the Swiss franc. I was recently visiting Switzerland with my family and cut the trip short as we calculated that a Starbucks Venti Latte with hazelnut syrup costs a whopping $10.86 (8 Swiss francs)....Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:43:36 EDTThe recent IPOs (initial public offerings) of social networks have created a surge of interest by individual investors rushing to subscribe and hopefully make a quick profit. But is this the case? If one looks at all the IPOs listed on the NASDAQ and NYSE in 2011, there is...Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:52:00 EDTRecent reports suggest that U.S. companies are hoarding $1 trillion in cash. What is amazing is that about one-quarter of those funds are held overseas by companies due to tax considerations. At current taxation levels, if a company repatriated its cash hoards held in...Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:38:05 EDTThe spiraling debt crisis in Europe is hardly aided by the loud criticism over the recent banking stress tests. Spain and Italy topping the list of countries passing Europe s bank-stress test didn t prevent criticism that the tests weren t tough enough and failed to...Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:38:12 EDTA recent report by Zenith Optimedia Group predicts that global ad spending will grow by 4.1 percent in 2011, returning to the pre-recession levels before the start of the recession in 2008. As an investor trying to think how to benefit, one would try and research the...Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:57:37 EDTDuring the summer months, the volume of shares traded tends to decrease as Wall Street executives and traders head for the Hamptons and retail investors go on vacation. In Europe, many businesses close down for the whole month of August, especially in countries like...Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:00:20 EDTA few smart financiers have become ultrarich by investing in out-of-favor stocks or commodities such as Sir John Templeton, George Soros, and T. Boone Pickens. Pickens, a billionaire from Dallas, Texas, has been involved in the energy sector through his long career....Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:11:32 EDTThe recent surge in U.S. mergers acquisitions (M A) activity in 2011 is a result of companies having strong earnings, a significant cash balance as well as more available financing. In the first quarter of 2011, M A activity in the United States was up over 100 percent...Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:34:47 EDTFor the last six weeks or so, we have seen a correction in the global stock markets as well as in commodities across the board. Emerging markets were underperformers in 2011. The question is: Who will recover faster once this downtrend stabilizes? There are a few reasons...Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:58:23 EDTThe preparation for London as the venue for the next Olympic Games is occurring during the worst economic recession in decades. Although the Olympics are a strain on stretched government and corporate budgets, they will have an overall positive effect on the British...Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:58:18 EDTAlthough Vice President Joe Biden recently credited the Obama administration with saving the U.S. auto industry, it was President George H.W. Bush, in his last few days in office that gave the Detroit companies $17.4 billion in loans after Congress refused to approve an...Tue, 31 May 2011 07:52:46 EDTWarren Buffett s acquisition of the Israeli company Iscar Metalworking in 2006 may have raised many eyebrows at the time. Mr. Buffett, not known for making many acquisitions outside the United States, bought Iscar, a privately held company and a global leader in the...Tue, 24 May 2011 07:00:40 EDTThe recent surge in economic growth in the euro zone s two largest economies, Germany and France, is proof that adhering to rigorous policies battling recession can boost a nation s recovery. Unlike the United States, Germany has a healthy trade surplus exporting much...