Biotech stocks have declined heavily in the past few weeks. Up until recently stocks in this sector reached sky-high valuations as investors were highly attracted by the ever-rising stock prices. But now investors are getting second-thoughts and are selling stocks across the sector as fear of further declines takes hold. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) which …
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The Bank Director magazine published their annual Bank Performance Scorecard for 2015 in July. The winners are selected based on the following criteria: Five key metrics are used to evaluate bank performance: core return on average equity (ROAE) and core return on average assets (ROAA), to measure profitability; the ratio of tangible common equity (TCE) to tangible …
Financials dominate some of the major benchmark indices. Even in the Bovespa, they account for nearly one-third of the index. Click to enlarge Source: Why investors need not fear a commodity meltdown, The Hindu Business Line, Oct 5, 2015
Thousands of public companies trade on the markets worldwide. In the US, retail investors in the millions are “owners” of listed companies holding equity in the form of shares. However though a public corporation may have millions of small shareholders, the shareholders themselves do not have control anything the company does. That power lies with …
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The Japanese stock market as represented by the benchmark Nikkei Average Index at 17725 on Friday and is up by 1.6% year-to-date.Nikkei reached a peak of about 40,000 back in the late 80s and has not reached that level again in the more than two decades since. The following charts show the long-term return of the …