In this new series I will list out select foreign stocks to watch for the following week. In addition, this post will also include economic events, oil prices, earnings and other related items of interest. 1. Ecopetrol(EC): The Colombia oil producer has been on fire in recent months and its movement is highly related to …
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Emerging market equities have taken a strong beating this year with countries like Turkey, China, etc. falling by double digit percentage points. The benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index has fallen sharply so far this year. Even with the selloff, fears of a meltdown in these markets are still in investors’ minds. However not all markets …
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The BRIC countries were hyped to be the top investment destination before the Global Financial Crisis. As the craze for emerging markets soared Wall Street came up with a nice-sounding term BRIC to denote the next emerging countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The simple catch phrase caught on and investors couldn’t get enough …
One of the very important factors needed for success with equity investing is the ability to stay invested during any market including bear markets. To put it another way, simply selling out when stocks crash 20% or more is a foolish idea.Investors who are unable to hold stocks when punishing market events occur should not bother …
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The media plays an important role in democracies. However bias in the media distorts their work. Some tend to have a right-wing agenda with the coverage while other lean towards the left. Some are neutral. A very few are extreme left or right basically spreading lies and fake news on a daily basis confusing the …