Archive of entries posted on January 2022

Developed Markets Annual Returns By Country From 2007 To 2021: Chart

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International stocks offer investors the benefit of diversification and also the potential to boost returns. US investors looking to diversify can easily add other developed market equities. For instance most of Western Europe have excellent firms that are equally good if not better than their American peers. Moreover many of the large cap companies trade …

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Most Brazilian ADRs Are Trading Under $10 a Share

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“Brazil, Land of the Future and always will be!” – Charles de Gaulle Brazil used to be one of the best emerging markets a few years ago. As one of the BRIC countries Brazil had everything going it relative to others. But then politics and other factors turned Brazil one of the basket cases – at …

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Fact of the Day: Many Nasdaq Stocks Are In Bear Markets

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The S&P and the Dow are down 1.9% and 0.3% year-to-date in the first week of 2022. The NASDAQ Composite index is off by 4.5%. These stats do not tell the full extent of selling underway in the tech heavy NASDAQ. According to Sundial Capital Research quoted in a journal article over the weekend: About …

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Dow Jones Industrial Average Annual Total Returns 1896 To 2021: Chart

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The Annual Total Returns of Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1896 to 2021 is shown in the chart below. It proves the known fact that stocks tend to go up in the long-term. During the period shown, the Dow was up nearly three-fourth percentage of the time and only down one-fourth of the time. Here …

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12 Ways to Break the USA: Map

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I posted a funny map on European stereotypes created by Yanko Tsvetkov based on Atlas of Prejudice. The following is a similar hilarious map of the good old USA. Number 6 is very funny. Almost all of the country is meat eaters except for the tiny speck of land of California. The entire population in “flyover country” will …

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