“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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I posted a funny map on European stereotypes created by Yanko Tsvetkov based on Atlas of Prejudice. The following is a similar hilarious map of the good old USA. Number 6 is very funny. Almost all of the country is meat eaters except for the tiny speck of land of California. The entire population in “flyover country” will …
The S&P 500 total returns by sector for the years from 2007 to 2021 is shown in the chart below created by Novel Investor. As with other similar charts, this chart shows the need for diversification among the various sectors. The best sector in one year does not necessarily mean it will be best the …
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