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The Asian high

In a world where consumer spending is king, you wouldn’t think that there’s such a dependency on a global scale as far as American upon Asia. But there is. And this reaches much farther than just cheap manufacturing.
Oh yes, if you take into account that approximately forty percent [...]

Asian markets doubts over US bailout plans

The Asian markets just keep shifting around, antsy on what’s about to happen in the United States while we’re still contemplating “why” the $700 billion USD bailout plan is a good idea.
Obviously from a personal perspective, I find it an atrocity. The bailout is basically shifting the consequences onto the American [...]

Dual-SIM phones introduced in Asia

While we have not seen sim cards for CDMA phones since in the US, the ESNs are assigned directly to each phone unit, in Asia it seems that they actually do have sim cards available for CDMA carriers. But as with everything, if you happen to travel on business a [...]

NTT DOCOMO creates Chinese division

NTT DOCOMO (DCM: 15.89 -3.46%) is creating a subsidiary that will be based in Shanghai, China. The subsidiary will be called DOCOMO China Co., Ltd. and will be established to service corporate mobile solutions locally and has a $4 million USD starting capital.
What’s interesting about this news is that two-fold. [...]

Yen keeps dropping as Asia strengthens

It’s interesting that the last couple of months, Asian currencies have been stronger against the dollar and the euro due to confidence of asian stock trades. But truthfully, did anyone really think otherwise?
While Japan’s economics has been in the dumps for a while now, and the Shanghai index has been on a [...]

Is it worth buying into Chinese stocks?

Just by looking at this single little graphic, there should be no doubt from a capitalization standpoint that the Chinese market is worth every bit a look even though there are bears out there that scream bloody murder about how China’s a spinning out of control bubble.
But just by looking at some pretty simple logic [...]