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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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Paris On My Mind
Britain and the US seem to be riding high but there are major political risks what with Russia and Israel. London is full of Russki oligarchs upon which its economy depends. The US needs to unhook its politics from Israeli excess, if only so both countries can hold their heads up.
Beating The August Doldrums
The afternoon after I last filed my blog I headed for the computer repair shop a few blocks from where my husband was born to pick up the notebook, which I am now writing on.
Cornering Putin
Today the Cold War resumed as both the USA and the European Community imposed new economic sanctions on Russian companies and banks, because the Putin government had violated international treaty commitments by furnishing eastern Ukrainian separatists with banned weaponry.
Eid Al Fitr In The East End
Fibra Uno reported net Q2 net income of NMP1.722 bn and adjusted funds from operations of 1.197 bn,up 108.8% and 109.3% respectively.
Investor Spotlight On Mexico & Other Global Stocks
Mexico topped the charges for global emerging markets inflows last month. We also report on the conversion plans by one of our yield stocks, and how this will play out, and about another tax inversion play ad news from Britain, China, Singapore, Canada, Ireland, Belgium, Israel, and Mexico.
Stock News Updates From Around The Globe
Today we have results from two of our companies, an update on one of my fund recommendations, and news from around the globe: Britain, Holland, Canada, Jordan, Colombia, Panama, Finland, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, Ireland, and African countries.
Luxemburger Polka
The US is a piker on penalties for banking wrongs.. UBS had to post bail at euros 1.1 bn ($1.5 bn) before the Swiss bank's trial for aiding money laundering and tax fraud in France.
Battling Boko Haram
I have been advised by a marketing consultant to talk more about insights from my foreign travels. In London this summer there is a steady drumbeat of propaganda against female genetic cutting and the marriage of underage girls among the immigrant community, which of course I support.
Arab Pharma Investments
One of my US shares, Illumina, a maker of genetic sequencing arrays and devices, is becoming a big player in Doha, where the Qatari government is building the Sidra Medical and Research Center which will use high-throughput genomics to find genetic links to diseases.
India And The Guns In July
After three years of prolonged economic weakness, the Indian economy is starting to turn around, cyclically and structurally. Inflation is abating, the current account deficit narrowing, FX reserves are accumulating and growth is just starting to rise.
Unexamined Risk
The statistical odds against two fatal plane crashes at one smallish airline killing hundreds of innocent passengers in a matter of 3 months must be infinitesimal. Yet that has happened to Malaysian Airlines. Both crashes appear to have resulted from reckless human behavior and were not accidents.
The Fixing Fix
The London gold fixing by a twice-daily process of “price discovery” was almost 100 years old when two New York University Stern Biz School professors revealed to the world that the benchmark setting the price of the yellow metal was manipulated.
Back To The Schreibmaschine!
German civil servants are now using typewriters to write sensitive documents, for fear of US spying on their computers. That is how allies view Uncle Sam's reach.
Gold Buying, Bank News, Israeli Boardroom Wars, And More
Now that all the hedge-fund short-sellers covered their exposure last week, gold has fallen back nearly 2.4%, the biggest fall so far this year. This provides an entry point for buyers.
News From Portugal And The Rest Of The World
While trading was up by volume by about 4% y-o-y, it rose 18% by value to $1.8 trillion, barely more than the new issues volume. Almost all the increase was in London where the most traded DR in the world has its home.
Espirito Santo Triggers Sell-Off... But Shouldn't Have
Fears about one of Portugal’s biggest banks led to a sharp sell-off across European financial markets on Thursday. Yet Espirito Santo represents a trivial sum in the world financial markets. Plus more stock news from India, Portugal, Africa, The Netherlands, Australia, and Canada.
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