Germany’s DAX Index differs widely from the UK’s FTSE-100 Index. In this post, lets take a quick look at some of the differences between these two benchmark indices. The FTSE-100 is dominated by banks, insurers, oil and natural gas and mining firms. The DAX-30 on the other hand is concentrated by firms in the chemicals, …
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) involves capital flows across boundaries. Unlike movement of humans, capital movement is unrestricted between countries. FDI flows are different foreign portfolio investments which are simply investing capital in equity and other markets. FDI capital flows usually relates to investments such as building a factory to make autos for example. Unlike FDI …
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Exchange-Traded Funds(ETFs) have soared in popularity in recent years. Today the ETF industry is huge and competes strongly against mutual funds.One can find ETFs of all shapes and sizes and ETFs are available to practically cover any asset class, region, sector, etc. In fact, the alphabetical soup of ETF available on the market can be …
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One of the important strategies to follow for success in equity investing is the willingness to cut losses and moving on. To become successful with investing in stocks is to accept that not all stocks one holds in a portfolio will be winners. In fact, there will some that will perform average over the years and …
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