China is finally feeling bullish about the stock markets once again. Just last September, Chinese regulatory authorities suspended all new IPOs following a 60% plunge in the stock market. Now the ten-month blackout is coming to an end, signaling a potentially major shift in investor sentiment. Initial public offerings are in the works for Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York.

The U.S. auto industry is still reeling from the latest, most unexpected chapter in the Chrysler/GM bankruptcy saga. Now the iconic American brand, Hummer, is being sold to a virtually unknown Chinese company from earthquake-ravaged Sichuan province. The buyer, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company is based in Chengdu and it has no experience in [...]

We’re cashing in our gains once again at the China Stock Digest! Just last Tuesday we alerted you that we were raising our “Profit Protector” stop loss thresholds on all holdings in our model portfolio. With China on the rebound we wanted to protect gains as high 30 percent (or more) on some of our [...]

The messy naval skirmish between a U.S. surveillance ship and a squad of Chinese patrol boats in the South China Sea was just the first round fired in a dramatic and even historic week. Even more important was the seemingly casual comment by Premier Wen Jiabao after a lengthy session with the National People’s Congress [...]

If there’s one thing America has long been famous for, it is our longstanding love affair with cars. Ask anyone who currently has the biggest automobile market in the world and the answer would just have to be the United States. But as of now, that answer is dead wrong.
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