The S&P 500 is up by over 17% year-to-date on price return basis. In the past 5 year, the index has had an annualized return of 10.52% which is very good. Though equity markets are soaring after a brief lull for the past few months it is always important to keep an eye on the …
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I have written many times in the past on the impact geopolitical crises on equity markets. The overwhelming research shows that markets are more driven by other factors such as earnings, interest rates, inflation, recession, etc. than crisis events. You can find some of the past posts here and here and here and here. Recently …
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Investing in an IPO is never a smart idea for retail investors. Way too many IPOs never seem to live up to the hype. Most of them end up losers for investors with some crashing big even within a few weeks or months of going public. The latest example of one such IPO is the …
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Equity markets have sustained multiple crises over the years and continue to go higher. Though equity markets tend to plunge dramatically when negative events occur they eventually tend to recover slowly. I have written in the past on how US markets have recovered after crises. Some of them can be found here and here and …
Equity markets always go through periods of booms and busts. During bull markets, stocks can earn astonishing returns and of course when markets turn the other way losses can be shocking. Sometimes the volatility on both ways can be gut wrenching. For stock investors the key attribute for success is to side out the volatility …
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