Gold is an important asset class that investors should not avoid. Though gold does not produce income such as dividends from stocks for example, they offer many other advantages. For example, gold has low co-relation to equities and traditionally offer downside protection to a diversified portfolio during adverse market conditions. When equity markets crash investors …
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Investors should always focus on their long-term goals and hold stocks for the long-term. Building fabulous wealth with equity investing needs patience and those investors that own stocks thru bull and bear markets are usually rewarded well by the market. The following chart graphically shows the performance of UK equity market over many events since …
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The benefits of Cloud computing cannot be under estimated. The biggest player in this new technology is the e-commerce giant Amazon(AMZN). Amazon Web Services(AWS) generated over $12.0 in revenue in 2016. Other companies such as Microsoft(MSFT), Alphabet(GOOG) are also growing their cloud offerings. The following chart shows some of the benefits of cloud computing over …
Many of the companies in the FTSE 100 index are still down from their all their highs reached before the Global Financial Crisis(GFC) of 2006-07. Despite the index reaching all high records recently these companies’ stocks are languishing. Some of them may never recover their previous highs in our life times. This is especially true …
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The Top 25 Financial State-Owned Multinational Corporations (MNCs) ranked by Foreign Assets as of 2015 are listed in the table below: Click to enlarge Source: World Investment Report 2017, UNCTAD The Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS) is majority(72%) owned by the British state. The state is the largest shareholder in many of the top banks in emerging markets such …
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