The top five U.S. tech giants collectively known as FAAMG have had astonishing grown in the past few years. The onset of the Coronovirus pandemic has led to further growth and concentration power for these tech leaders as most people working from home and cooped up at home depend increasingly more on technology to continue …
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The single country index returns chart for emerging markets was recently updated by Novel Investor for the first half of this year. The best performing marker was China with a return of 3.6% and the worst market was Colombia with a loss around 45%. Chinese equities have held especially well this year as China was …
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Amazon(AMZN) is the world’s largest e-commerce company with a market capitalization of over $1.40 Trillion. The stock price has jumped from under $500 in 2017 to a recent 52-week of $2,955. While Amazon dominates the US market it is not a major player in many other countries. In this quick post, lets take a look …
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China has come a long way since the early part of the 20th century. From a rural “backward” country China has transformed its economy in the 70 years since 1949 to become the world’s second largest economy. While other communist countries collapsed and converted to democracy, China followed a different approach called “Market Socialism”. In …
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