zhengzaishuru Oil prices have wavered recently. Tensions in the Middle East, for now, have ebbed, resulting in a pullback in what had been a strong rally year to date in WTI. Now under the $80 per barrel level, there is not much action in the oil space. What has been stealthily on the rise, however,…
Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images News Hitachi, Ltd (OTCPK:HTHIY) is a big Japanese company (not on the S&P 500) that has managed to achieve a (relatively) consistent share price increase of 46.5% over the past year. Hence it has substantially outperformed the S&P 500’s 23% rise over the same period. This is even more remarkable when one…
Dzmitry Dzemidovich/iStock via Getty Images Co-Authored by Treading Softly I’ve never been one to really get caught up in the latest fads. It seems that in our modern era, we want to be able to attach a clever name to something that everyone seems to be doing. I can tell you that in my years…
MediaProduction/iStock via Getty Images As the past week closed, a number of interesting events came to pass over at the People’s Republic of China. The first was China’s largest private real-estate developer Country Garden missing a number of bond payments and posting guidance that it will likely post a record loss for the first six…