One of the sectors that is often overlooked by investors is the hospitality sector. Travel and leisure is a multi-billion industry that is made up of lodging companies, tour operators, airlines, casinos, cruise ship operators, etc. The tourism sector is booming in emerging markets. Even in the recession-hit developed world, countries such as France, US …
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Last month Mark Cuban wrote a provocative post on the stock market titled “The Stock Market is still for Suckers and why you should put your money in the bank“. From the post: If you havena’t noticed, individuals are avoiding the stock market in droves.A There has been an enormous exodus from equity based mutual …
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Some of the Swedish bank stocks fell hard during the credit crisis due to their large exposures to the former Soviet states in the Baltic region. However in the past few months these banks have rebounded nicely. Sweden’s fourth largest bank Swedbank (OTC: SWDBY) is also the biggest bank in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In …