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.

The gold price drop is more a temporary result of the stratospheric rise of the dollar against other currencies rather than a lack of appeal from the yellow metal. But as I warned last week, I have no idea when this will reverse.

A new index redefines what's Israeli; results from Bermuda and Colombia; news from all over the globe; and - salmon.

Low growth can be as much of a catalyst for high debt as high debt can be a catalyst for low growth.

Commodity prices do not move in lockstep with each other. In the olden days, people used the price of copper to forecast economic growth.

Arvy and I have discovered other hacking horrors and security lapses at HSBC. Here is an example of how careless my bank has been.