Pakistan used to a frontier market according to MSCI classification. However on June 1, 2017 the index provider reclassified the country as an emerging market and now the country is a constituent of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. I recently came across an article in the BBC that discussed the story of Mattias Martinsson’s investment adventures …
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Gold prices closed at XX$/oz yesterday. Since late 2012 gold prices have been on a slow decline although they have recovered some since last year.Despite the recovery prices are nowhere near $2000/0z that some expert predicted at the peak of the gold bull market. In the past gold has had brutal price plunges during bear markets. …
The Indian equity market is one of the best performing markets so far this year. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex is up by over 17% year-to-date. Despite the strong gains, Morgan Stanley’s Jonathan Garner, the chief Asia and emerging markets equity strategist predicts the index may reach 34,000 by June, 2018 according to an article in …
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The UK general election is scheduled to take place tomorrow (8 June 2017). After the surprising Brexit vote last year this will be the major political event in the country. British stocks have performed well in the past under conservative leadership than labour according to an article I came across recently. The following chart shows the …
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One of the simplest and easiest strategies to be successful in equity investing is to diversify. Diversification involves spreading one’s portfolio between various asset types such as stocks,bonds, gold, etc. Within an asset class it is important to hold many types of that asset. For stocks, one can hold US stocks, foreign stocks, small cap, …
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