Wednesday morning in the East saw the main market indexes fall.
There was thin trading in Hong Kong and Shanghai with the Heng Seng dropping .4%. The Nikki index also lost ground.
Traders it seemed had shaken off the enthusiasm of the day before after coming to the conclusion that the decision to let the control [...]
Given the volatility of the markets who in heaven is doing that?
The retail investor is doing anything but that. Buzz words such as spike, fall, drop, re-rating, sovereign debt, debt and many others set the heart racing of the private investor. For goodness sake he’s glued to his screen…hoping and praying.
All the time the [...]
According to a recent Study released in Canada on health and aging, serious issues were forthcoming relating to age and driving.
Historically it has been the case that people have driven to the grave but now with people living longer questions are being raised about our continued ability to drive as we age.
The Insurance Corporation of [...]
There is a congressional debate raging. Merchant are screaming about the “swipe fees” they get charged each and every time the customer uses his debit or credit card to pay for transactions.
The big banks like JP Morgan and Bank of America along with the likes of MasterCard and Visa and on the other the [...]
Recently Rightmove , the leading property website in the UK issued some statistics on overseas property searches within their own websites.
It seems as if Brits are being encouraged by the recent drops in the Euro to consider purchasing property abroad. Given the state of the pound this is somewhat startling but may indicate an increasing [...]
Not only in South Africa but around the whole world the expectation and excitement that will be the World cup is bubbling.
Nelson Mandela has issued a stirring statement to the world on the eve of the Rainbow Nation’s hosting of Football’s World Cup.
All 32 teams are champing at the bit to get that first game [...]
More than 100 people, mainly children, died in the last few weeks after residents of a village in northern Nigeria were digging for gold in areas where the concentration of lead is high.
Reports said that 25 children from the village have been hospitalized recently and another 80 are facing treatment very soon.
It is being said [...]
Women the world over struggle with how to control weight and keep their figure. Exercise and plenty of water all help to keep the body’s systems flowing but certain foods can help control that embarrassing bulge around the stomach.
Reports suggest that consuming the following foods can help you to lose belly fat:
Blueberries: [...]
There was a new flow of oil today from BP’s oil well deep under the Gulf Of Mexico. This gulf oil spill has not stopped and so far has mixed thousands of gallons of oil into the gulf.
The hopes are the robot can shear off the damaged pipe head, so it is level and [...]
The hugely popular micro-blogging service Twitter has come from a standing start in 2006 to become as well known as Facebook in the US, with African Americans proving particularly keen on “tweeting”.
Some 87% of Americans know what Twitter is, compared with just 5% two years ago, giving it almost the same visibility as Facebook, which [...]
