As of this week the Australian dollar is the third major currency to be traded directly with the Chinese yuan, joining the US dollar and the Japanese yen. Read More

It's one of the world's biggest mining and resource companies. And it's suffered a serious spell of negative news that's dragged the share price on a 24.2 percent intra-year top-to-bottom slide. That means one thing: opportunity. Read More

A favorite Conservative Holding, which has generated a total return of more than 100 percent since our initial recommendation a year and a half ago, is on the verge of another set of acquisitions that will complement and extend the "transformative" deal it completed in June 2012. Read More

The AE Portfolio posted a positive average total return for the first quarter of 2013, and we saw more than a third of our Holdings boost dividends. Here’s a review of these developments as well as highlights and lowlights from the How They Rate coverage universe. Read More

Key equity indexes are making new records. At the same time, more signs are emerging of Australia’s growing importance in the global economy. Read More

Since 1790, while the US has experienced 16 "banking crises," our neighbors to the north have suffered a grand total of zero. A recent paper and forthcoming book attempt to explain why. Read More

Expectations-beating North American employment reports for February have given way to underwhelming jobs-front news in March. It’s still going to be a long recovery. Read More

Foreign central banks continue to add to their Australian dollar holdings, providing support for the aussie even as the Reserve Bank of Australia attempts to weaken it. Read More

Congressional passage of a 250-word bill would open up cheap capital and liquidity to new energy sources. And it would grow the field of high-yield opportunities for individual investors. Here's what's happening with the Master Limited Partnership Parity Act. Read More

The last six months has seen a surge in master limited partnership initial public offerings. Here are 10 new issues we're adding to the MLP Profits How They Rate coverage universe. Read More