Rewind the movie to before the stock market lows of March 9: stocks down, corporate bonds down, commodities and gold down, emerging-market currencies down, safe havens in fashion, including the US do

Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series on luxury travel bargains. See Cheap Thrills for Travelers.Cheer up. Summer may be over, but your best times are still ahead of you.If summer was a

Gibney says:“There is a different, more robust approach to making peace in nasty places: deploy private military companies. Put them on retainer, and they’ll go where they’re p

Here at Minyanville, we’re less interested in geopolitics than investment opportunities but all the recent tough talk of African corruption, abuse and tyranny had us wondering: even for an inve

Emerging markets, we're told, are the best bet for riding out the ongoing economic storm. Investors should therefore be afraid. Very afraid.Since global equity markets swooned this March, stocks

Words from the Wise this week comes to you in a shortened format as I don’t have access to my normal research resources while on the road in Europe (also see my post Gone AWOL -- to Slovenia an

Signs of stability characterized trading on financial markets during the past week. As investors placed their bets on a global economic recovery, equities, base metals, and crude oil made further hea

Ups and downs on financial markets were plentiful during the past week, but investor sentiment, on balance, brightened on the back of constructive financial and economic data - capped by a better-tha

Stock markets kicked off the last week on a high note, but then the US parted ways with other markets as the remaining 4 days went downhill for American stocks. In contrast, global markets in general

The Securities and Exchange Commission may require some US companies to switch to international accounting rules by 2014. The SEC says the change will make American companies more competitive in the