The S&P 500 is up over 18% YTD. The tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite has shot up by about 36% YTD. Overall US equity markets have recovered strongly from the crash of 2022. However we may not be out of the woods yet. This is not a bull market. High interest rates are projected to remain high …
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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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