Age is no barrier to Love. I wish them every happinness

George Soros celebrates 82nd birthday with engagement to Tamiko Bolton

Drought is a problem. Australia also suffered from drought in the past decade but it looks like the situation has now changed. We had record rain this year so farmers here should be doing well

What Every Farmer And Commodity Trader Will Be Glued To at 0830ET

The cost of the Olympics will hit them as well

U.K. Government Faces Economic Dilemma

I don't think that interest rates will fall by much (if any) because high unemployment won't be an issue, there are many infrastructure projects starting up and the carbon tax should trigger further investments so IMO Australia is safe and the AUD ...

RBA Statement on Monetary Policy, August 2012

i On what fundamentals? If they want their economy to recover they need to let the GBP fall big time

BoE King: rate cut would be more counter productive than beneficial

Then why is the GBP going up? How's their economy going to recover?

Gloomy Bank of England to pave way for more bond buys

As they take money out of the economy the GDP will fall, the only way to tackle the contraction is with growth but this isn't coming......

Italy recession continues in second-quarter, compounding Monti's problems

Its not only hotels, they are buying properties, farms, companies and whatever else is of value. I guess money rules and we'll have to start learning Mandarin..... Learning Japanese was popular in the old days as well but I don't know if it still is.

Asia Buyers Snap Up Australian Hotels as Mining Boom Fills Rooms

What do u base your statement on? To me it looks like big money are rebalancing their portfolio and are now favouring EUR....

Italy doesn't need German cash, Monti tells Germans

Yes not a big amount and the ESM will be making money so their pool of funds will grow or they can also use the profits to create an emergency fund which can then be used to write off some of the debt

Germany's Liability to ESM is Limited to EUR190B - Finance Ministry Official

Guys the EUR is very cheap atm so it makes sense to buy it. There is so much potential on the up side and those who think that the EUR is going down they forget that institutions won't allow it to go down much more.

Draghi allows time for eurozone politics to prepare for Spanish bail-out

Now that wasn't hard to say, was it? At the end of the day, rates will come down when fear goes away and the ECB only need to pull the big guns out and scare the speculators. It will not need to take further action....

ECB’s Liikanen: ECB supports Draghi’s comments

I can understand how the fed wants to wait until after the US elections but Draghi doesn't have the luxury of time so he needs to fix this mess ASAP. Even if he has to piss Weidmann off, he should show leadership and act in the interest of the whole ...

Will Mario Draghi and the ECB deliver?

Come on guys, spend the free money, go long on the AUD and let the good times roll...

Boss-onomics: Australia's finance minister inspired by Bruce Springsteen

Things are looking better by the day

Australia Retail Trade - June 2012

It was going to happen. Taking money out of the economy and letting your business partners be slaughtered by the markets will be felt even in Germany, because who is buying German cars? Those lazy southerners do...

Carmakers stuff German market with self-sales

That's good news. Property prices have stabilised and now that home loan rates have fallen, property prices should be going up following CPI

Australia House Price Indexes