The global healthcare industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. Companies in the healthcare industry are enjoying rising demand for their products not only in the developed world also in the emerging world. In the developed world people are living longer and also falling ill more. In the emerging countries, higher stress levels and change in food …
The equity markets of major European economies have lagged the performance of the U.S. market so far this year. The year-to-date returns of the main European markets as of Sept 22nd are listed below: UK’s FTSE 100: 0.4% France’s CAC 40: 3.4% Spain’s IBEX 35: 10.4% Germany’s DAX: 2.1% U.S. stocks have performed very well relatively …
Brail’z Bovespa is up 10.3% year-to-date while India’s Sensex is up 28.5%. The S&P 500 is up by 7.90% YTD. Click to enlarge On a 5-year basis the S&P 500(in Green) has outperformed both Brazil and India as shown in the chart below. Brazil(in Blue) has lagged India by a significant margin over the …
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Australia is commodity-based economy with China being its largest export market. Hence one of the factors that investors in Australian equities need to consider in their analysis is the impact of commodity prices due to the decreased demand from China and other global economies in general. Australia’s Top 5 Exports in 2012-13: Click to enlarge Australia’s …
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