India’s economic monsoon Where Have All the Profits Gone? Karl Marx Could Have Told You Oldham: All-out banking collapse is still possible ‘Greed is the Beginning of Everything’ Insurance or Redistribution? Five Years After Crisis, No Normal Recovery How to solve the euro crisis, by Jurre Herman, aged 11 Mexico City, Mexico
Four Numbers Add Up to an American Debt Disaster: Caroline Baum The global financial crisis: What caused the build-up? Map: The world’s new ocean-spanning fibre-optic cables Lawrence Solomon: A world awash in oil Investors must plan their exit strategies The long bust Investing in a changing China: an uncertain outlook Price fixing Mexico Banks Resilient, But Global …
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Pacasmayo Cement of Peru started trading on the NYSE from Feb 13, 2012 with the ticker CPAC.Pacasmayo is the second Peruvian cement company to trade on the US markets. Here is a brief overview of this new ADR from the press release: Cementos Pacasmayo is a leading Peruvian cement company, and the only cement manufacturer …
Four tips for bond investors Crook: U.S. Retirees Face a Private-Savings Crisis Do workers reap the benefits of productivity growth? What can Europe learn from Sweden? Four lessons for fiscal discipline Hire-and-fire labour law changes won’t ease Spain’s employment crisis BRICs lose their shine The case for investing in Latin America Click to enlarge Mongolia Photo …
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Quoting Barron’s, Blogger and fund manager Barry Ritholtz posted the following interesting chart on the performance of various asset classes since the March 2009 lows: Click to enlarge Source: Bottoms Up! From March 9, 2009 to Today, The Big Picture I wanted to see how the various US-listed foreign banks have performed from March 9, …
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