Author: Vivian Lewis

Like Portugal, Spain is also ceasing to be a PIIGS country. Its public accounts produced a deficit in H1 of 2.44% of GNP, a level half as high as the prior year H1 in euros, and nearly as big a drop in percentage terms (from...

Tom McClellan writes in The McClellan Market Report, daily edition:The Baby Boom started in 1946, and continued through 1964.  Boomers saw their first instance of a financial bubble in the 1970s when gold was finally...

Canada’s Mounties are in the midst of dismantling an Ottawa-based Al-Qaeda arm run by an X-ray technician. Terrorism in boring old Canada sounds off, but so too does the USA hysteria against theCordova mosque dedicated to...

Q2 German economic recovery hit 2.2% growth year over year, the best level since the country was reunified. Germany now looks like leading the European Union (EU) out of the global economic crisis if it learns to work and play...

EPFR which tracks fund flows writes of the past week: “Investors pulled $7.49 bn out of equity funds and committed a net $4.2 bn to their bond fund counterparts. The YTD inflows is the extension of a remarkable two-year...

  The real problem in Australia, from where we have good news for our portfolio, is that the key to Labour holding power is in the hands of the anti-business Greens, who are more or less Reds. They will insist on new taxes...

Your editor has descended from the Sierra da Estrella where she duly visited port wine estates, castles and convents, plus a synagogue for crypto-Jews in Belmonte called Sinagoga Eliahu. That refers to Elijah the Prophet who...