Even in an environment ripe for takeovers, finding and sticking with quality precious metals assets is the strategy that speaks loudest to James West, publisher of the Midas Letter. Read about his philosophical and practical switch from "trader" to "investor" and about which companies lead his list of favorites in this exclusive Gold Report interview.

Alongside Germany’s export success is another, creakier economy that suffers from overregulation and holds back not only the country but the rest of Europe, some economists say.

Commercial real estate brokers and companies are slowly shrugging off their skepticism to social media as suitable platforms for business use and are engaging more frequently in online marketing, information gathering and client building. While late to the social networking scene, and still in a fledgling state of using websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, many in the CRE industry ...