While US company brass get early experience in massaging news, this is not instinctive among foreign companies with American Depositary Receipts listed in this country.

More follows from Singapore, China, and Hong Kong, and other places like Mexico, Britain, The Netherlands, S. Africa, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and Finland.

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

“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%.

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.

*Pure Technology today announced winning a 3-yr $4 mn leak and tapping detection contract for Kahramaa's large-diameter pipes delivering desalinated water in Qatar (United Arab Emirates) to be filled via its Abu Dhabi sub.