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Yesterday Brent crude dipped below the $50 a barrel mark yesterday. The catastrophic oil price plunge makes lots of investors nervy, as subconsciously they still stick to the pre-crash price, thinking oil is ‘worth’ $100 a barrel, regardless of what logic tells them...

Fifteen years ago, Chinese tourists made less than 10 million trips abroad. However, since then rising incomes have led to rapid growth in domestic and international travel...

Why is gold hated more than ever by both governments and the financial services community? Some analysts consider it is because it has now become imperative to keep the illusion of confidence in sovereign debt and paper currencies...

This weekend Financial Secretary John Tsang admitted that the government was not psychologically prepared for such scale of the protests...

At the beginning of 2014, the 10-year U.S. Treasury was yielding 3% and few forecasters projected that the widely-held benchmark would be hovering around 2.5% in late September. What is this unexpected rally telling us...

We can easily recognize any of major circulating currencies. Euros, dollars and pounds are easy to visualize, what cannot be said, however, about cryptocurrencies...

Why is the Bitcoin Price Going Down? The answer is simple: we are starting to use Bitcoin to do things, buy goods and services, as opposed to holding Bitcoin for speculation...

You've already heard that Alibaba is going to be the largest IPO ever. What is IPO, though? For those who are still unsure, there's a very useful and detailed infographic compiled by NYSE...

A totally outstanding case happened several years ago in Bangladesh. Being old enough, it cannot be called old-fashioned. For me it's a reminder of how an epidemic ignorance might lead to a catastrophe...

Вот пример из новейшей истории. Несколько лет назад невероятный случай произошел в исламском южно-азиатском государстве Бангладеш. Тем не менее, уроки из него полезно извлекать в любое время, т.к...

Investors still remember their superstitions on September and October, which are believed to be "crash months", and are worried about the state of Western economies, and the state of geopolitics too. But worry causes mistakes. We’ll do well to remember that markets climb a ‘wall of fear’...

Do you remember Friday's intra-day chart of SPDR S&P 500 (ARCA:SPY), the ETF that tracks the performance of the S&P 500...

The most appropriate word is ‘disintermediation’, not the prettiest one though. But disintermediation is what internet commerce is all about. That is, getting rid of the middleman. Amazon does it in retail. Zoopla and Rightmove are doing it in estate agency...

Many of us enjoy a drink to relax after work, but what does your choice of beverage say about you? In the case of the drinks that follow, anyone would instantly understand that they’re drinking in the company of someone exceptionally wealthy – and with pretty extravagant taste too...

The idea of putting health warnings on alcohol labels is being tested on consumers, but the wine industry fears Australia could be ridiculed globally...

There are lots of reasons to love Bitcoin - lack of fees, anonymity, investment potential and a number of others...

You should keep saving. You have to max out your 401(k). You must save for your kid's college education in a 529 plan. Right? Maybe not. Most experts have long reflected on a number of practices that may actually be working against you...

Recently there has been a lot of talk of Europe’s ‘recovery’. The medicine may have nearly killed the patient, but the hope was that spending cuts and political reforms would eventually turn French, Italians and Greeks into Germans...

La mayoría de los que mantienen un ojo en los multimillonarios del mundo y sus historias de éxito, sin duda, saben que también hay mujeres extraodinarias sobre la tierra que lograron hacer una fortuna por sí mismas. No todos ustedes, sin embargo, notan su extrodinaria belleza detrás de la riqueza...

Большинство из тех, кто краем глаза следит за судьбой миллиардеров, развитием их бизнеса и историями успеха, не могут не знать в лицо женщин-миллиардерш, которые сами сколотили свое состояние. Да-да, есть такие...