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Knowledge is Power: Interest Rate Hikes, Pink Slips, Emerging Markets Edition

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Federal Reserve Interest Rate Hikes: A Historical Perspective (Forward Management LLC) Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements (NY Times) Ten Things Americans Might Find Odd About the Way Russians Live (Sputnik News) Why Wall Street keeps winning (MaClean’s) Investment and inequality: Stock markets for whom? (OECD Oberver) Turkey and China: political uncertainty and monetary …

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Periodic Table Of Investment Returns: Emerging Markets 2005 To 2014

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Last week I posted the Periodic Table Of Investment Returns for Developed Markets. In this post, lets take a look at the chart for emerging markets from 2005 to 2014. Click to enlarge   Brazil has been a poorly performing emerging market since 2010. Unlike China and India, the country is blessed with natural resources and …

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Global Stock Markets Ranked By Market Capitalization

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Chinese stocks have soared this year with the Shanghai Composite Index up over 55% in dollar terms. As the share prices have increased the market capitalization of China exchanges are also rising sharply compared to major exchanges of the world. The chart below shows the top global equity markets ranked by market capitalization: Click to …

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Periodic Table Of Investment Returns: US vs. Developed Markets 2005 To 2014

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One of the main themes that I have written about many times on this site is for U.S. investors to invest in foreign stocks. There are plenty of reasons to invest in foreign stocks with diversification being one of the top reasons. So far this year, the U.S. markets have lagged in performance relative to international …

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