Archive of entries posted on December 2013

Knowledge is Power: Cash, Gini, RBC’s Top 30 Stocks List Edition

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Five reasons to buy emerging markets next year (FE Trustnet) Chart of the week: will buying the benchmark give you global exposure? (MoneyWeek) Ho, ho, ho! How stock markets look set for 2014 (CityWire) Who Let the Gini Out? (IMF) Investment after crises: Asia 15 years later (VOX) The backlash against the BRICs backlash (The Economist Blog) Chenai and the chocolate …

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Knowledge is Power: Sir Issac Newton, Emerging Markets, Corporate Feminism Edition

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Japanese lessons (BBC) Canada to benefit from a strengthening U.S. economy in 2014 (MaClean’s) Why corporate feminism is convenient for capitalism (The Guardian) How U.S. Workers Rebuilt an Industry (Bloomberg) What Sir Isaac Newton can teach us about London’s ludicrous property price bubble (MoneyWeek) The safer way to access the emerging market recovery story (Trustnet) JPM’s Forey: for emerging markets worst …

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A Note on Continental AG Stock Split

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Germany-based Continental AG (CTTAY) is one of the world’s largest tire and auto-parts makers. Due to the strong growth of the global auto industry the ADR is up over 80% year-to-date and closed at $210.93 today. Continental announced a stock split in the ratio 5:1 recently. The ADR Record Date is Dec 20, 2013 and …

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On the Correlation Between S&P 500 and CRB Commodity Index

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When the S&P 500 index rises commodities usually follow. Commodities, as represented by the CRB Commodity Index and the S&P 500 run generally higher based on economic growth expectations. From the lows of 2009, S&P’s strong rebound coincided with a run up of commodities. However after 2012 the S&p 500 and CRB commodity Index started …

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