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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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 …

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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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I came across the below funny infographic on European stereotypes by story teller and magician Yanko Tsvetkov based Atlas of Prejudice. Southern Europe has good cuisine while places like UK is not known for any good cuisine. Click to enlarge Source: Atlas of Prejudice by Yanko Tsvetkov