The S&P 500 is no longer represents the true state of the US economy. The current bull market in tech stocks has further pushed the concentration levels in the index. A few weeks ago an article in The Financial Post noted that the concentration level in the S&P 500 exceeds the level reached in the …
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The 2020 US Presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Americans will get to elect primarily between the candidates of two parties – the Democrats and Republicans. As with the past election nobody knows who will win. With that note, I recently came across this interesting re-election Campaign Poster promoting Ronald Reagan for President and George H.W. …
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The stock market crash of 1929 triggered the The Great Depression in the U.S. Below is a short video on the crash and its consequences. Source: Documentary Channel on You Tube
The historical annual returns of Canada’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite index from 1924 to 2019 are shown in the pyramid chart below. Canadian stocks yielded a positive return in about 73% of the time. So in the long run, stocks tend to offer positive returns despite crises such as the dot-com crash, financial crisis of 2008-09, etc. …
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The Institute for Economics and Peace based in Sydney, Australia published the Global Peace Index 2020 report that ranked 163 countries and territories of the world based on their level of peacefulness. All the countries were evaluated and assigned a Global Peace Index (GPI) which was used to rank them. From the report: The Global …
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