As the stock market slumps, gold's unique appeal stands out again, Gold has risen nearly 4% so far this month. Major world stock markets have dropped up to 10%

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%.

The multinational merger mania continues apace with a new higher Pfizer bid for Astra Zeneca of Britain, based in part of tax benefits to PFE, and AT&T shifting its global assets to better its chances with its bid for NexTV,

Today the Chinese flash purchasing managers index number came in below the 50% level which marks positive growth, at 48.3%. This sound worrying but the period for which data came in included the long hiatus for the lunar New Year of the Horse.