Law makers believe that Hong Kong has the infrastructure, the transparent legal and regulatory surroundings, and the market depth to play a part in these areas for the advantage of the entire Mainland economy. They also reported that the window of opportunity will not stand the test of time. If sufficient steps are not taken [...]

One thing about trading in the Forex market to be aware of is that a person’s success is oftentimes found in the system that they use. The most successful Forex brokers, investors, and traders waste no breath in telling the fledgling player in the Forex market that the success is in the system. Unfortunately, finding [...]

It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just can’t know where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections— even more is squandered comparing portfolio market values with a handful of unrelated indices [...]

So what do your Investment Manager and your neighborhood bartender have in common, other than the probability that you spend more time with the latter during market corrections? Antoine Tedesco, in his “The History of Cocktails” article, lists three things that mixologists consider important to remember and to understand when making a cocktail: 1) the [...]

When I first started in property I would do everything myself. For example, I would source the property, prepare the property for letting, look for tenants, reference them, arrange viewings and do a lot of the property maintenance myself. This was a real drag on my time and I found myself working harder and for [...]

Spills from oil pipelines are serious business, creating significant problems for both the environment and the companies that operate the pipelines. In the past, spills were handled in an emergency fashion, with no coordinated efforts to reduce both their number and their severity. However, all that changed in 1999 with the introduction of a powerful [...]

Due to the unique needs of the truck drivers who deliver oil daily for fuel oil distributors, manufacturers of the delivery trucks always strive to be working on vehicle enhancements to make their job easier and safer. As with any business, it’s often the “little things” that can make a big impact on the bottom [...]

The price action in the gold bull market has probably caused a lot of nervous concern on the part of gold traders over the past few weeks. After soaring to all time nominal highs above $1000 an ounce earlier this year the gold market pulled back about 25%, enough to shake out the weaker speculators [...]

n the face of rising constraints in the financial markets, Britons appear to be evermore prepared to take steps to safeguard their spending. Such is the claim of Birmingham Midshires, following the release of figures from the financial services provider revealing that consumers are putting an increasing amount of money into savings accounts. According to [...]

Commodity Trading is strictly speaking the trading of physical commodities – such as soyabeans, wheat, corn, gold, silver, cattle, oil etc. – or their futures contracts on the established commodity exchanges. Farmers use commodity trading to lock in favorable prices prior to an ensuing harvest. Hence, there are real commercial reasons for trading in commodities. [...]