Information From Around The World...

In Korea, the average mobile phone user is watching on average 1 hour per week of online tv/video content.

In Japan, the sale of digital cameras is on the decline. Why? The quality of mobile phone photos/video is now at such a high quality, people are just using their mobile because they always have it with them.

In the US, Blackstone, one of the main Private Equity companies, has just raised $4.1 Billion in an IPO in the US. Why is that interesting? Well... private equity companies, turn listed companies into private companies. So here is a private equity company, listing.

What is even more interesting is that the Chinese have invested $3.1 Billion into the Blackstone IPO. Not a popular move amongst politicians in the US, as one of their business arms has contract with the US military.

At Communicasia 2007, the buzz is focused on the merging of the Internet and Mobile phone services. An interesting area to watch.

As China expands so to does the populations travel ambitions. Airlines are now lining up to bid for business in an industry which they are expecting to grow by 8% per year until 2026.

A recent survey of the world's financial centres has named London as the Financial centre of the world, with New York 2nd. The main reason being new legislation and regulations implemented after the corporate collapses of Enron, WorldCom and the likes, has made it increasingly difficult and expensive to list.

The benefactors of this... are the Toronto Stock exchange, The London Stock Exchange (LSX) and of course the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

Global trends and information can be capitalised on. Who has executed a successful trade on an overseas exchange?