Life Trader

What you need to know...  Construction began in 2009. Scheduled for completion in 2019. Will provide about 9.5 million square meters of office space at a cost of 200 billion yuan (that's U$D 32 billion at today's rate). Includes a transportation hub with a high-speed train...

2013 Proved to be a great year for those invested in domestic equity, with the S&P 500 alone yielding almost 30%. A performance not seen in more than one decade.  Although Wall Street in general was highly profitable this year, there are some winners that are worth to mention...

Last year (2013) stock markets logged the best returns we have seen in over a decade, a performance not seeing since 1997. This is the final scoreboard: S&P 500: 1,848.3 (26.39%) Nasdaq: 4,176.5 (34.20%) Dow: 16,576.6 (23.59%) ...

Dubai Celebrated the New Year with what the Guinness World Records already agrees to be the most exuberant and expensive firework presentation ever. A record crowd of 1.7 million people attended the even last year and the number its expected to be even larger this...

Life is about choices, with every choice we make we are really just trading on the alternative. Hence it would be rational to conclude every decision can be seen as a trade off.  As most of us have a limited amount of time and resources available, I have compiled the Life Trader...

If you invested in any of the following through the year, or even better, you already had a stake on these products you're either a life trader or simply very lucky. Either way you deserve a pat in the back. In case you missed them, these were some of the best returns in 2013*:  1....

With only two weeks left in the year, it's worth noting some of the stories and events that made it to the headlines or simply flooded our social media feeds... Top International Stories  1. Papal succession  2. Tension in Syria  3. Reform in China  4. Royal...