Emerging markets are hot this year as global investors are attracted to their for their higher growth potential and yields in some cases. With growth stagnating in the developed world especially in Europe it is not surprise that investors are turning their attention back to emerging markets. In the past few years emerging market stocks …
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Oil’s Price Rise Boosts All Equity Sectors, But One (S&P Indexology Blog) Costly cures: the US drug pricing conundrum (Schroder’s) and Cut Health Costs or Help Workers. You Can’t Do Both. (Bloomberg) Lottery madness (Statistical Ideas Blog) Five charts that tell you when the stock market bubble will burst (Money Observer) Demystifying bond ETFs (Fidelity) Lost …
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The S&P 500 currently is dividend into 10 sectors. This is about to change with Real Estate being added as the 11th sector. Real estate will be split from the financial sector and added as a sector of its own. No new companies will be added to the index. The existing sector composition of the S&P …
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The current Total Public Debt Outstanding is over $19 Trillion or $19,428,079,384,183.27 to be more precise according to the Treasury Department, Out of this debt mountain, the debt held by the public is over $14 Trillion. The total US debt held by foreign holders stood at $6,281 billion as of June, 2016 according to Treasury …
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The stock price of Petrobras(PBR), Brazilian oil firm closed at $8.73 on Friday August 12th. The market cap stood at about $57 billion. This is a far cry from the peak market cap a few years ago when Petrobras was the rising superstar of the oil world and was considered the crown jewel of emerging Brazil. In 2008, …