Credit Suisse published the popular Global Investment Returns Yearbook for 2016 last month. The report contains a wealth of data especially from a long-term and country-specific perspective. The following is a sample chart from the report. It shows the relative shows of the equity markets by country at the end of 1899 and 2015: Click to …
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Higher education is a big business in the U.S. Every year millions of students graduate from schools across the country with billions of dollars in student loan debt. Tuition at both public and private universities and colleges have increased year after year with demand for getting a degree going only higher. In an article a …
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One of the equity strategy topics that I discuss here often is the concept of ‘Market Timing’. This involves simply buying stocks when the market is down and then selling them when the market is at the top. Sounds simple. But if it were that easy then everyone would be a millionaire. In reality, timing the market …
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Every year Global Finance magazine publishes the list of world’s best banks. This years ranking was published recently. The full list of banks and additional details will be released in May. From the press release: Global Finance, founded in 1987, has a circulation of 50,050 and readers in 180 countries. Global Finance’s audience includes senior …
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Professor John Ross is Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China and runs a blog called Key Trends in Globalisation. His work regularly appears in Chinese and Western media. In an article posted yesterday he argues that economic hard landings have occurred in the past in Western economies and not in China. In …