Okay, so how is the current bear market an opportunity, especially for our China Stock Digest subscribers? Well, we have to carefully analyze the investment opportunities and then selectively make investments that we believe are poised for a turnaround. Eventually, this stock market should reverse course and start a new bull market and we’ll try [...]

Investing can be a bit like the weather on Mount Rainier in June–very unpredictable. You could have a horrendous blizzard one day and then a glorious, warm sunny day the next. That just about sums up the recent action on Wall Street.
The daily mood swings on Wall Street were evident last week as the Dow [...]

So what are your thoughts on the concept of retirement? A recent study by Charles Schwab and AgeWave titled, “Rethinking Retirement: Four American Generations Share Their Views on Life’s Third Act,” reached the following conclusions

Fifty-two percent of respondents see retirement as an opportunity for a new, exciting chapter in life.
Seventy-one percent of pre-retirees said they [...]

First, the extreme bad news. On Tuesday last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below 10,000 for the first time in two years, and that same day, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest U.S. mortgage-finance companies, lost more than a quarter of their market value, according to Bloomberg. Also, the S&P 500 Financials [...]

At precisely 8:08 PM on the 8th day of the 8th month of 2008, the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games will begin, marking the biggest coming-out party in history. China, the world�s most populous country, will broadcast an unmistakable message to a worldwide audience of four billion viewers.
There is great significance to the [...]