Money Management: Quick Look at Leveraged Shares Performance
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Why Trading Leveraged Shares is Like Driving on a Flat Tire Leveraged shares trading is getting very popular nowadays. Multiple 200% and 300% leveraged shares ETFs aim to replicate 200% or 300% of the DAILY ...
In the Spotlight: SVB Collapse and its Historical Parallels
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‘History does not repeat itself. It rhymes’ — Mark Twain The world is once again embroiled in a banking crisis. We are sure you have by now already heard that Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank ...
US Job Openings Point to Strong Market Recovery in 2023
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In contrast with the shallow consumer confidence and hawkish FED policy, the labor market dynamics stays bullish During the last several months, we started hearing about companies downsizing — Meta (META), Goldman Sachs (GS), Google ...
Small-Cap or Large-Cap: Which is Better Investment
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If you have ever taken courses in finance, you probably remember the term CAPM — Capital Asset Pricing Model. The model calculates the expected rate of return for an asset or investment and as a ...
Eastern European Bonds as a Good Bargain (Revisited)
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On Nov 16 last year, we published our blog post ‘Are Eastern European Bonds Way Too Undervalued,’ where we made the case that Bulgarian and Romanian government bonds were a bargain at that time. It ...
The Fed is Fighting Inflation That No Longer Exists
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‘Once you get burned by hot milk, you tend to blow even on yogurt’ — Turkish Proverb On November 8th, 2022, we published a blog, ‘US Inflation in 2023 at 1.3? Is the Fed Wrong Again?’ ...
Why You Need to Buy (US) Stocks in One Chart
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Prof Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School published a chart in his book Stocks for the Long Run that we want to share with you: We decided it would be better NOT to update the chart to ...
DAX vs. S&P500? Choose the Best Match for Your Portfolio
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Did you know that the German Index DAX is up 25% since its lows in early October 2022? These were lows of 12 000 compared with the current level in January of 15 000? The S&P500 is only ...
Monetary Policy Review: What the Market Really Expects
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Futures Rate as a Predictor of FED Actions Very often we hear people say rather casually, ‘The Fed will do X’ or ‘The Fed will not do Y’. Such statements may sometimes be more or ...
Why Must the US Housing Prices Plunge More Than 20%
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2022 was a terrible year for most investors. It was one of those years when both bonds and stocks went down. However, there is one market where investors did relatively well — the US housing market. ...