The Russian stock market opened for partial trading last week after being closed for a month. This week all companies on the Moscow Stock Exchange started trading. However Russian stocks are still suspended on the US markets and the London Stock Exchange. Some investors may be eagerly waiting for trading of Russian ADRs to resume. …
I came across the below infographic on US inflation since the 1960s. Last year when inflation started creeping up the Fed said repeatedly it was only “transitory”. Now it has become permanent and they are unable to get it under control. Raising interest rates a little bit is not going to help. With sky high …
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One of the popular myths in the field of equity investing is that large companies are too big to fail. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Over and over again this has proven to be correct. For instance, during the dot com boom peak in 2000, tech giants Cisco(CSCO) and Intel (INTC) were in …
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Global equity markets have stabilized in the past few after having a few rough weeks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Unlike last year, markets this year started on shaky note facing a multitude of headwinds from inflation to interest rate raises. Then came the shock of a new year in Europe. It remains to …
Global energy markets are in turmoil since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Crude oil prices especially shot up dramatically only a few days ago but have declined some in the past few days. We can expect the current volatility to continue until the war is over. While the US imports very little from Russia, …