When you decide how to invest your money, you substantially have two different options: active investment strategies and passive investment strategies. In the case of active investment, the investment manager will try to outperform some given benchmark by over/under weighting some assets/asset classes in order to increase more than proportionally the value of assets under…
Monday, April 27 Fitch cut the credit ratings of Japan to A Tuesday, April 28 UK GDP below expectations during the first quarter of 2015: 0.3% against expectations of 0.5% (QoQ). Collapsing the Japan’s retail sales in March: -9.7% (YoY) against expectations of -7.4%. Wednesday, April 29 US GDP below expectations during the first quarter…
Crude oil, the Bulls are back : After the highest at 120 dollar per barrel in the past and after a low at 45 dollar per barrel in 2015 seems it is the time that the price will stabilize at an higher level, even in the knowledge that things do not always depend on just…
The International Monetary Fund says that China will be the biggest economy in 2016, overcoming the USA. The optimistic forecast of the IMF is based on the assumption that China will grow on the same rate as this year, perhaps, this result can be biased because China is the fastest growing economy for 3 decades…
As the petroleum industry enters in the historically weak second quarter with U.S. crude inventories at highs, the very real possibility that the price will drop sharply from current levels must be considered. But why is oil gone up in last weeks? What about forecast? It is always worth repeating that oil prices, in the…
It has been extremely easy to make money over the past three and a half years: European equities are up more than 50% and the US has done even better, with the S&P500 rising more than 70% since the European debt crisis. Bonds also had an incredible performance as yields tumbled all over the world.…
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