Topic: South America

Brazilian banking sector is strong, diversified and adequately capitalized. Its high levels of capitalization have allowed it to weather the recent global credit crunch well. Despite the economic slowdown, the credit extension as well as bank deposits continued increasing in 2008 and ...

Stocks To Rise In Five Years

Over the past half decade, the Standard & Poor's 500 is down 5.2%, with much of that decline coming in the fall of 2008 as the credit crunch tightened and subprime mortgages made the news. John Osbon, head of indexing firm Osbon ...
Have you ever dreamt about sailing away to adventure in your own sailboat? and exploring the oceans of this beautiful planet of ours? The excitement, the freedom, the sheer joy of sailing and visiting the myriad exotic places along the way? Hawaii, ...

Your Summer Portfolio

It's summer time, and while rising unemployment may undermine the cliche that the living's easy, the investing world does, generally, take somewhat of a breather during these more torpid times. Carol Pepper, the head of family investment firm Pepper International, has a ...

Buy-And-Hold In Disrepute

A nation of burned investors needs rose-colored glasses to believe the Obama and Bernanke " Many ordinary investors, along with well-heeled ones, saw their holdings in U.S. equities lose 50% of their value from 2007 to 2008 and into earlier this year. ...

Eligible Billionaires

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the richest bachelor in the world with a net worth of $16 billion. Divorced since 1993, Bloomberg plans to be in the public eye for a long time: With a $9.5 billion fortune, Mikhail Prokhorov ...

MasterCard On Brazil and Europe

Surprisingly, despite a downturn and a recession in both Brazil and Europe, MasterCard reports that both are doing quite well. (MA). In the fourth quarter we saw... We continued to experience volume and transaction growth in Europe in the mid to high ...
Riots have flared across Colombia over the collapse of a pyramid investment scam that left thousands of investors broke and furious. Police used teargas and batons to quell crowds that tried to storm the offices of rogue investment firms, some of which ...

Colombians riot in anger at pyramid scam

Riots have flared across Colombia over the collapse of a pyramid scam that left thousands of investors broke and furious.Police used tear gas and batons to quell the crowds when they tried to storm the offices of rogue investment firms, some of ...
There are three main methods you can use to transfer money overseas. money orders, bank transfers and cash transfers. By far the most convenient way to transfer money these days is to do a cash transfer through a specialist money transfer company. ...