The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) started in the U.S. in 2008 and by any measure has ended. As a result of the crisis the Federal Reserve slashed the Fed funds rate to almost 0% effectively handing out money to banks and other institutions for “free”. The Federal Reserve has kept the rate between 0 to …
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Emerging market stocks have lagged the performance of developed stocks this year. While the S&P 500 is up 18.6% year-to-date most emerging markets are in the negative territory or have yielded meager returns. A sampling of emerging market returns YTD are listed below: China’s Shanghai Composite: -4.8% India’s Bombay Sensex: 1.5% Brzail’s Sao Paulo Bovespa: …
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The S&P 500 is up 19.9% year-to-date as of September 20th. Many of the European markets are also up by double digits YTD but they are still lower the U.S. market. Here are the YTD returns of major European indices: France’s CAC 40: 15.5%s Germany’s DAX Index: 14.0% Spain’s IBEX 35 Index: 12.3% UK’s FTSE …
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Absolute Majority? Merkel Wins Easy Re-Election (Der Spiegel) Does BlackBerry have a future? (CBC) Finding cheap shares ready to move on up: How finance professor Josef Lakonishok turned his theory into a $70bn practice (This is Money) Containing costly job losses (OECD Observer) Hi-Fis and Low Gears: Manufacturing’s Bounce in the U.S. (IMF Direct Blog) The American Myth of …
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Mexico-based ultra-low-cost airline Controladora Vuela Compañia de Aviación, S.A.B. or Volaris (VLRS) listed its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE on September 18, 2013. The company priced the IPO at $12.00 per ADS for a total of about 26 million shares. Each ADS represents 10 ordinary shares. Here is a brief overview of Volaris: The company …
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