There is a map of the world on my office wall. What I like about this map is that the mapmaker paid particular attention to getting the scale right.

With the market the way it is today, you can’t help but look for an investment, any investment, that might react differently than everything else. These kind of investments are “non-correlated” because they move independently of the overall market. But they can be tricky to locate, and even harder to trust.

America is an albatross around the neck of a great many Asian countries. But where China throws its money – success and profits flourish. We’ve seen it in the far east – and it now looks like we’re about to see it in Africa… If you’re fast enough you can be part of the next success story.

Investors are lining up to grab their share – you can be one of them if you act fast enough.

Perhaps part of the humor is that this comes at the same time as the price of gasoline went up 3 cents to another record high of an average of $3.70 a gallon. This is up 22% from this time last year! 22 percent! 22! Hahahaha!

Gold flat-lined throughout Far East trading and only showed life when London opened. Virtually all the gains in the gold price were in by the time the traders in New York showed up for work.

If you didn’t get a chance to read Saturday’s email, you won’t have seen what my trusted colleague, Manraaj, calls “the biggest growth story of the next 50 years”.

I’ve learnt an incredible thing from those smart chaps at Profit Hunter. It’s a way to play the explosive oil bull market that I’d never considered. Get this…

It’s no surprise to anyone who’s ever heard of Dubailand that the Middle East and North Africa are in the middle of a huge growth spurt — everything from residential housing to massive infrastructure projects.

Money Morning Investment Director Keith Fitz-Gerald – one of the first global financial gurus to predict triple-digit oil prices – has boosted his target price for crude oil from $187 to $225.