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

French economy is stalled, with unemployment high, and growth hampered by excessive government intervention and distribution. Too little work is being done thanks to the 35-hour week and the month of annual vacation workers get as a matter of course.

On a day when 76 million USERS were revealed to have had their accounts hacked at JP Morgan Chase. Another 7 million businesses were hacked, among them apparently myself. Plus more stock news from Canada, Bermuda, China, Dubai, Switzerland, Jordan, Portugal, Brazil

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.

The price of the April Tampa ammonia contract was settled at $580 per metric tonne, a whopping $120 above the March contract. It also is about $10-20 over the global price according to analysts at Bank of Nova Scotia.

IRL reduces stake in Paddy Power, sketchy accounting at Eaton Vance (EXG) and Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors to cease publishing The Investor's Guide to Closed End Funds.