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Vivian Lewis is editor and founder of Global-Investing.com, the daily blog newsletter for Americans and others seeking to internationalize their portfolios. She brings unique experience and competence to the business of picking foreign stocks. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude (and ...more

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Why We're Buying Denmark's Novo Nordisk AS (NVO)
Novo Nordisk AS, with a 90-year-old world diabetes treatment franchise, is getting into the related business of treating obesity. It expects FDA approval for its injectable obesity drug, Saxenda. Our analysis follows...
Forty Thieves, Gold, And A Stock Buy
Despite what Bloomberg is writing from China, it is not Chinese exchange controls and use of special rules for qualified investors that is the cause for the impossibility for its customers to buy BABA.
My Pink Paper
There used to be two gossip columns, "Lex" and “Men and Matters.” Neither was particularly authoritative and anyone who invested based on these columns deserved all the losses of money which ensured. Why I miss them
Tough Week For Foreign Investors
It was a tough week for investors outside the US mainly because of currency factors. A combination of low Euro-land interest rates, fear of Scottish secession, and political uncertainty aborad led to a boost in the US dollar which made all non-dollar investments sag.
Q&A With Readers And My Latest Foreign Stock Tips
Today I answer some readers questions, have a note about the Holy Ghost at The Mouth of Hell, a stock downrating, and news from China, Israel, Mongolia, Canada, Britain, and fund updates.
What About The Picts? What About Reg S?
It's all very well for the Scots to vote for independence, but who is giving a voice to the Picts? Back when Hadrian was building his wall it was intended to stop Roman Britain from attacks by the Scots and the Picts!
Welcome Ana Patricia!
Poland says it received sharply lower than expected supplies of Russian natural gas this week via Belarus, which made it harder to send gas back to Ukraine. Russia cut supplies to Ukraine as part of its program to back separatists in the east of the country.
Why Blog?
Abengoa reported flat revenues and net income for H1 vs 2013 H1, with sales at euros 3.4 bn and net income of euros 69 mn, up all of 2%.
Check Out Our Performance
Deutsche Bank told Forbes that it is “not the slightest bit worried about the Brazilian Socialist's Party's chance to take over in Oct.” They argue that Marina Silva's “social welfare policies wouldn't be much different from that of the Dilma administration.”
Ethical Investing
My notes about how The Harvard Endowment is expensively managed and underperforms was sent by a subscriber to his magnate cousin who got his AB there in 1955. Cousin P is a big Harvard donor and an established member of various Harvard committees and funds.
Whatever It Takes
“Whatever it takes”, Mario Draghi's agenda for the European Central Bank (which he heads) to act against the risk of a deflationary spiral into depression, today was defined further as the ECB slashed interest rates to 0.05%.
Sudetenland Revisited
The deal being worked out over eastern Ukraine sounds like the 1937 Munich capitulation and unlike the British rush to defend Polish borders 75 years ago in Sept. 1939—right down to the presence of a supposed outsider in the deal (Hitler in 1937; Putin in 2014.)
How To Give To Harvard
We spent the Labor Day weekend in Cleveland which is exactly the same distance from Washington, DC, as Moscow is from the nearest Ukrainian border.
Bits Of News From Across The Pond
Two bits of news from across the pond. First, Paddy Power plc informed the Dublin Stock Exchange that it has bought 150,000 of its its own shares to try to offset the overwhelming impact on its share trading of the institutional market.
Give To Harvard?
Harvard's expensive investment managers didn't invest very well. Its endowment gained all of 11.3% last year, despite the heavy spending. Meanwhile Yale gained 12.5%.
The Donald And A Buffett-y Israeli
The SEC is planning to allow a wider nickel spread between the trading bid and the ask, called the tick size, to increase market liquidity for small-cap shares traded infrequently.
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