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By Bill Cara – The market is the theatre of life where the play is all about time and money. If investing represents our journey and trading mirrors the paths we take, then the market is the big show, the place all of us experience it. Anything you read from the Trader Wizard will echo … Read more
AMSTERDAM – Nearly three-quarters of expats in Europe have invested offshore, according to a new study. And a similar percentage claim to have either matched (46 percent) or outperformed the stock markets (33 percent). But the number of expats who think markets will grow in the next year has slumped to 53 percent compared to … Read more
In the heyday of Net stocks and do-it-yourself investing, the question wasn’t whether you traded stocks online, it was with whom. It seemed like everyone was doing it. By the time the market peaked in March 2000, there were 12 million to 15 million online brokerage accounts, and more than a third of all trading … Read more
Last week, I received the following request from Beijing: A question: you mention technologies that enable regular investors to invest globally. Are you aware of a brokerage that offers investors with $30-50K accounts, say, US, Canada, Japan, HK, Singapore, and Thailand stocks at internet broker prices? A discussion of inexpensive ways to directly invest globally … Read more
Venture capitalists across Silicon Valley are falling for China. Tom Shields, partner at the Woodside Fund, sticks a teach-yourself-Mandarin CD into his car player as he heads to his office in Redwood Shores. Down the Peninsula, Joseph Tzeng, partner at Crystal Ventures, packs for another trip to Beijing. He’s teaching himself to skip breakfast and … Read more