Swine Flu pandemic and impact on world stock markets SUNIL KEWALRAMANI September 12, 2009 The correlation of gamma and ? was used by Wall Street financial engineers to calculate predicted loan “mortality” rates which some believe created the huge trouble in the securitization business (CDO, CLO, CPDO, SIV). It is interesting to note that [...]
History The Union Stock Yards in Chicago in 1878 Before construction, tavern owners provided pastures and care for cattle herds waiting to be sold. With the spreading service of railroads, stock yards were created in and around the city. In 1848, small stockyards were scattered throughout the city along various rail lines. There was a [...]
A list of stocks from both the Nairobi Stock Exchange MIMS (large caps and mid-caps) and the AIMS (small caps) that had either outperformed or underperformed the benchmark index (the NSE-20) in all three periods was drawn up. The results revealed that stocks that either outperformed or underperformed the NSE-20 were diverse across size, [...]
With the current financial crisis pervading stock markets in the global ecomony, real estate once again should be looked at as a serious, long-term investment strategy that can help investors further diversify their investment portfolios in the future. The reality is that the current stock market malaise that has decimated so many long-standing financial institutions [...]
How can you make heaps of money from the stock market while keeping risks to the minimum? I always believe that you should never put your money in something you do not know about eventhough everyone is dumping their money in this particular stock and prices are rushing like mad.. That would be speculating [...]
The stock market is an excellent place to build your money over time. The returns on these investments are far higher than other investment types. You can save wisely for your retirement and build your wealth. Most advisors say that it is a necessity to invest in the stock market. However, it is [...]
There is only one way to truly build wealth in the stock markets – spot trends well before the thundering sheep herd of investors does, invest in them many months and sometimes even years before the average Joe and Jane, and concentrate your stock picks. If you do, 40% and 100% annual returns are possible. [...]
Let’s take the NASDAQ composite. It is made up of a basket of shares, the largest and most well traded stocks and an average of these stocks figures go into making the NASDAQ composite. Remember that word “average.” As with ANY average you will always have shares outperforming and under performing the average. Do a [...]
I know a man who turned a $15,000 trading account into $3.3 Million. It was an amazing stroke of luck. He even admits this. “MARK, I am no fool. I know I was just plain lucky. I don’t have magical system. I am not privy to insider information. I merely gambled BIG on the right [...]
After an opening surge on Monday, markets had a mixed time of it for the remainder of the week. President elect Barack Obama’s announcement of a huge public works program helped virtually every market rally against the main trends of the last few weeks. Equities and commodities were higher, while the dollar, bonds, and CDS [...]