Think the U.S. market has been on a nice run? Try Egypt.Here’s a one-year chart of the CASE-30 index, via Bloomberg. The index is up a breathtaking 55% just since last summer.BloombergCoincidentally or not (probably not, actually), the bottom almost perfectly coincides with the Egyptian army toppling Morsi last summer, proving once again that moments of extreme chaos can make […]
Tunnel vision is a major risk for stock investors today. As discussed in a recent article, nearly every major asset class beyond the U.S. stock market has struggled in 2013 with many on course to post declines for the year. And the magnitude of stock outperformance this year at over +20% versus all other major investment categories is unprecedented in […]
Trade parameters: Sold CAC-40.I CFDs at 4.140.37 with stop at 4.250 (on close)Trade idea backgroundFrance and its stock market “own” the luxury goods market. According to Bain & Co. it controls 25 percent of the world market for these sought-after products. The problem with this “luxury” is of course that emerging market growth overall, and Chinese growth in particular, is slowing […]
The term big data has gotten a lot of press. My sense from speaking with people is big data is a buzz phrase that most marketing and sales people vaguely know a little about but most don’t really understand the potential for in their business. And very few organizations are actually taking advantage today. I actually like the term “rich […]
Foreign investors’ growing appetite for Canadian stock is great news for the S&P/TSX Composite Index given the high correlation between foreign investment and the performance of country’s most important benchmark, says Martin Roberge, Canaccord Genuity strategist.Statistics Canada on Monday released its figures the foreign investment in Canadian securities for September. Obviously,Statistics Canada fund flow data released on Monday shows foreigners […]
In 2001, Pakistan came on the world map across US university campuses, claimed to be host to a number of highly dangerous enemies of the ‘free world’. Over the next few years, it successfully gained the status of ‘World’s most Dangerous Country’ courtesy of Newsweek, as though before it existed it was not dangerous, let alone a country. This is […]
The Big Players in Big DataThere is a good deal of buzz around Big Data—hardly a week goes by without a new startup or business preaching the virtues of mining massive tracts of information. Understandably, many have trouble seeing beyond the hype, but nowhere are the benefits of Big Data more tangible than in the healthcare sector.IBM predicts a 20% […]
