The balance sheets of major global central banks have steadily increased since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. The chart below shows the balance sheet figures measured against the percentage of Global GDP: Click to enlarge Source: The Long Unwinding Road—Navigating Regime Shift, T.Rowe Price
FAANG stocks have soared in recent months like there is no tomorrow. In fact, Amazon, Apple, etc. have shot up nearly eight times since March 2010 according to a recent article by Frank Holmes of U.S. Global Investors. The bubble in the e-commerce sector is the second largest bubble in the past four decades as …
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South Africa is one of the major emerging economies. Though the country is rich in natural resources and is considered as a commodity-based economy, exports of manufacturing products accounts for nearly half of the economy and ores and metals constitute only one-fourth of exports. The following infographic shows a snapshot of the key variables of …
Emerging market stocks are riskier than developed world stocks for the obvious reason that those markets are still developing – meaning institutions, rule of laws, regulations, policies, intellectual protection, etc. are still a work in progress. Hence investors investing on stocks from these countries are betting that despite these disadvantages companies would grow their profits …