The world is transitioning to clean energy at a rapid pace. Many countries are planning to reduce their carbon footprint. As the transition to a newer world gains traction the demand for clean energy commodities would go up. The traditional fossil fuel-based automobiles are increasingly replaced by electric vehicles. Coal powered electric power plants are …
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International stocks offer investors the benefit of diversification and also the potential to boost returns. US investors looking to diversify can easily add other developed market equities. For instance most of Western Europe have excellent firms that are equally good if not better than their American peers. Moreover many of the large cap companies trade …
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“Brazil, Land of the Future and always will be!” – Charles de Gaulle Brazil used to be one of the best emerging markets a few years ago. As one of the BRIC countries Brazil had everything going it relative to others. But then politics and other factors turned Brazil one of the basket cases – at …
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The S&P and the Dow are down 1.9% and 0.3% year-to-date in the first week of 2022. The NASDAQ Composite index is off by 4.5%. These stats do not tell the full extent of selling underway in the tech heavy NASDAQ. According to Sundial Capital Research quoted in a journal article over the weekend: About …
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The Annual Total Returns of Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1896 to 2021 is shown in the chart below. It proves the known fact that stocks tend to go up in the long-term. During the period shown, the Dow was up nearly three-fourth percentage of the time and only down one-fourth of the time. Here …
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