When bitcoin was first heard in 2010, it couldn’t have been more inviting: a virtual currency being used to buy everything: from arms and drugs to cupcakes and food. The Blockchain, the technology behind the bitcoin, promises to reshape the world that we know, getting rid of intermediaries and making many processes faster and safer. One…
The time series analysis is set of statistical methods used to describe the time course of a phenomenon, explain it, identifying its generating mechanism and possible relationships with other phenomena, decompose the series into its unobservable components and predict the future trend of the phenomenon.To analyze a time series, could be used several software. In…
During this year investors have faced many difficulties to deliver the expected returns to their clients. However, these are some hints for all the investors out there. 10. COMPUTERS – PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT On average these companies have performed poorly this year, with an YTD Performance of -22.31%. Computer peripheral equipment have faced one of their…
The evolution of the stock market through the years is very visible; asset classes have become more homogeneous and even the individual investor can notice it. At the start of the 80s abnormal returns made by hedge funds were notable, financial markets were less crowded and people with good knowledge of diversification and the ability…
All the economist developed different yield curve theories to determine how and why the yield curve move in the way it’s moving. Right know there is 3 main theories that try to explain that movements: Pure expectation theory: one of the more straight forward among the three, the yield is calculated by (1+x)2 = (1+y)*(1+z).…
Nowadays with low interest rates investors leverage up to increase their returns, crowd-funding real estate will give the investor a new way of sacking for that higher returns. However the concept is not new investors had REIT’s to invest that allow investors to raise money to access to large portfolios of properties. While majority focus…
As counter-intuitive as it may seem, the luxury industry and iconic companies such as LVMH, Hermes and the Richemont group recorded strong performance during the 2007-08 financial crisis. To simplify their activities – and perhaps strip them out of their hard earned experience, know-how, glamorous appeal and subsequent prestige- these groups sell goods at a…
The year: 2010. The place: Mountain View. The company: Google. These are the space/time coordinates of one of the most glorious failure of the recent economic history. In 2010 Google was on a rampage, introducing the first of six (till May 2015) Nexus smartphones, launching “Google Instant”, creating “Google eBookstore”, the first and most believable…
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