Crude oil prices closed at over $69 for June delivery (Brent). Oil prices have shot up more than 150% since the lows of $26 reached in early 2016.Rising oil prices is helping oil majors earn higher profits. According to an article at U.S. funds, big oil is generating as much profits at $60 as when the …
Emerging equity markets tend to offer higher returns than developed markets during some periods but not all the time. Emerging markets also go thru boom and busts like the developed markets but the magnitude of rise and fall in those markets is much higher than their developed world peers. In the really long run emerging …
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The market capitalization of the FAANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet (parent of Google)) is bigger than the economy of some countries. I came across the following detail on the size of these tech giants: Bigger than Japan FANGs is an acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, streaming service Netflix and Google (now owned …
Brazil has one of the highest murder rates in the world. In 2015, the there were nearly 60,000 murders in the country. The following chart shows this number in perspective. This number is equal to the number of murders in the US, China, all of Europe, Northern Africa, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand combined. Click to …
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The number of public companies in the US has continued to decline for many years now. One of the implications of this scenario is that investors have fewer options to invest in. To put it another way, billions of dollars flowing into the equity markets have fewer places to find a home. As a result, …