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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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Portfolio Vs Direct Investment
And as for predicting the price of gold rising to $1900, look at where it is today! You have to know when to hold them and when to fold them. This is gee-whiz marketing aimed at people who have no economic background and are innumerate.
Vive La France!
The upheaval in France brings to the fore an economic debate taking place in many countries: whether to launch deficit spending to exit the wake of the global financial crisis, or whether to stick with budget-balancing austerity.
Oil And Liquidity
This July, the US imported 12% less oil (crude and products) than it had in July, 2013, 9.06 million barrels per day (mbpd). In fact, the imports were the lowest in any July since 1995, according to data from the American Petroleum Institute, an industry body.
Tightening Impact
It is not just the Bank of England where a minority of policymakers support tightening of credit. At our Fed too the hawks are swooping led by Kansas City Fed Chief Esther George.
Flak And Bleeding Brass In Canada And Finland, Israel And Argentina
Argentina is trying an end-run which may result in its being held in contempt of court, to avoid having to negotiate seriously with the hold-out hedge funds over its debt. These owners of ~10% of the bonds refused to join in the 2005 and 2010 deals to extend duration and cut yield on the bonds.
Right Of Reply In Missouri
The largest plastic tube producer in Latin America moved to extend its domain again. This time the victim is US Dura-Line, maker of high density polyethylene precision tubes for telecom voice and data, energy transmission, and infrastructure with a blue-chip client base.
Ferguson On My Mind
Where is economic growth going to come from? I think it will spread from the USA and Britain to the European Union in the rest of 2014 going into 2015.
Playing Putin
There can also be buying panics where people ignore the risks and rush into ipo's, internet stocks, the Nifty Fifty, biotechs, German unification plays or 3D printing ones, rare earths, China stocks.
Socialists And Super Stars
Cosan reported Q2 results selectively, claiming that Raisen Energia sales of fuel rose 16% to Reais 478 mn and that Comgas distribution network added 10% to its client base.
The Seven Horsemen
Food for thought for investors. A young MBA student of my acquaintance summer-interning at Morgan Stanley has written about the “Seven Horsemen of the Apocalypse”. Being Jewish, she got the number of horsemen in the Book of Revelations wrong. Officially there are only four horsemen.
Global Shares
Today's Wall Street Journal reports that Glaxo's CEO Sir Andrew Witty also faces pressure to clean up its business lines and boost results. Triggering the dissent is the latest bribery scandal eruption, over Syria.
A Foodie Note And An Industrial Stock
Today I got extremely positive news for my Kinder Morgan Partners stock, a purely USA holding which soared 17.87% so far today on news that the Kinder Morgan group will abandon the Master Limited Partnership structure and merge it into its parent.
New Mexican Revolution
Mexico's Senate has passed the reform of its energy and power sectors which will be open to private and foreign investment for the first time in nearly 80 years. Here are 3 stocks which will benefit... Plus more from Ireland, Switzerland, France, Canada, Britain, Jordan, Russia, Israel & Norway.
Physical Gold Offer
These are cheap prices for gold bars, but remember you will have to pay insurance after taking delivery; leaving the gold with Bullion Vault (BV) means cheap insurance.
Warren Buffett And Me
Today I face what the locals call an “embarras de richesse”, a pot of cash from mySunday profit- and loss-taking (both because of taxes; I don't want to go into hock to Obama, Cuomo, and de Blasio, all off whom tax my earnings plus capital gains outside my IRA.
Identity Theft
We were slow on the uptake yesterday and it took 4 hours from when the pair of miscreants cornered my husband for us to realize that they had opened his fanny pack and stolen his UK passport.
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