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In the wake of the Middle East unrest, Nigerian scammer are now taking advantage of this situation: they are posing as representatives of the ousted dictators.

Cute Animals Pictures with Captions From Around the World

James Tyree, CEO of Chicago-based financial services firm Mesirow Financial, passed away at the age of 53. Tyree is survived by his wife and three children.

Almost a week after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck off the coast of Sendai, Japanese emergence personnel and citizens are still working through the wreckages to salvage, recovery, and eventually rebuild what was lost.

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The Japanese yen surged to an all-time high against the US dollar late Wednesday (New York time) as it surged over 340 pips, or 4.2 percent, against the US dollar in a span of roughly 30 minutes.

Wednesday’s housing data was terrible. February housing starts dropped to an annual rate of 479,000 units and building permits fell to an annual rate of 517,000 units. Both figures measure the pace of US housing construction.

There is now one more catalyst that can push up oil prices.

In marketing to Latin American consumers, image and experience is everything.

A new fire was found at the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 4 on Wednesday morning in Japan (Tuesday night in New York time).

Pension fund managers can run better portfolios, said Steven Drobny, author of The Invisible Hands: Hedge Funds Off the Record—Rethinking Real Money.

FXCM has $200 million in cash and wants to buy other forex brokers.

The economy is booming in many Latin American countries and people there are getting richer. For many of these recently wealthy Latin Americans, it’s all about the “little victories.

Articles on doing business internationally.

The massive Chinese consumer market is both a big commitment and big reward for Western companies, said Benjamin Wey, president at New York Global Group.

Global markets interviews from International Business Times.

Commodity bulls believe we are in early stages of a bullish ‘supercycle’ for commodities that may last several decades.

SCVNGR is essentially a physical location-based communal game that connects social media with the offline world.

Japan’s tragic earthquake and subsequent tsunami not only cost humans lives but also economic damage. But despite the initial economic setback, Japan’s economy should do just fine in the medium and long term.

A devastating earthquake hit Japan off the coast of Sendai, sending tremors and resulting tsunamis in the surrounding area.

Chinese stocks traded on US exchanges are undervalued and mispriced, said Benjamin Wey, president at New York Global Group.

Police in Saudi Arabia have fired on protesters and launched stun grenades at them in the Shiite city of Qatif, according to the Associated Press.

Since the height of the financial crisis, the Canadian dollar has appreciated substantially against the US dollar. Now, it’s overvalued against the US dollar, according to an analyst at Deutsche Bank.

In the hedge fund industry’s 60 plus years of history, a lot of managers have gotten fabulously wealthy. The following is the list of the 10 richest hedge fund managers in the world.

One Australian dollar can get you about 1.37 New Zealand dollars right now. That’s an extreme low level for the New Zealand dollar, according to data compared by Westpac Global Strategy Group.

Each year, on March 8, women around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. In 2011, women (and some men) in over 100 countries celebrated this holiday. It was a well-received and joyous event in most places.

G10 currencies are the most actively traded ones in the world. Which one has performed the best since the beginning of 2010?

Despite great advances in technology and global wealth, many parts of the world -- especially Sub-Saharan Africa -- have been left behind.