The following graphic shows the rating of countries based on the latest Democracy Index by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Most of Africa are authoritarian regimes. Same for most of the Middle East, Russia and China. Some of the major countries are classified as flawed democracies. These include Brazil, India, Italy, France and the US. North …
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Technology stocks are on a tear the past few years. In 2019, the NASDAQ index rose over 35%. With the arrival of the pandemic in 2020, the NASDAQ shot up again by over 43%. It remains to be by much it will grow this year. The top five companies – Facebook(FB), Apple(AAPL), Amazon(AMZN), Microsoft(MSFT) and …
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Gold is an important asset to own in a well-diversified portfolio. Gold offers portfolio protection especially during periods of high volatility in equity markets or crises. This is because when equities crash gold generally rises and hence offers stability to a portfolio. Since gold as an asset class does not produce income such as dividends …
A cool video from Norfolk Southern Railroad (NSC). As one of the major Class I railroads in the US, Norfolk Southern owns a vast network in the country and covers many states of the heartland as well. Source: Norfolk Southern Disclosure: Long NSC
The Periodic Table of Annual Returns in Canadian Dollars from 2010 to 2020 is shown below. In 2020 the TSX index returned 5.6% compared to 16.1% for the S&P 500 in Canadian Dollar terms. Click to enlarge Credits: Many thanks to Norbert Schlenker at Libra Investment Management for collecting the data that this calculator uses. Original …
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