REUTERS/China NewsphotoThe Shanghai Composite Index has fallen by 27% in less than a month — a huge reversal from the 117% gain over the past eight months. And this splashy volatility has everyone worried about the precipitating negative effects on the Chinese economy.But the actual effect may be less than analysts are expecting:”The stock market wealth effect in China is smaller […]
Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Totally Replace the Stock Market Joshua KrauseThe Daily SheepleJuly 6th, 201586 views
Bitcoins may not be the best investment these days, but no matter where you stand on their future potential, you have to admit that the technology behind Bitcoin is pretty impressive. With the exception of gold and silver, never before in history has a currency […]
Of course, all eyes have been on Greece in an ongoing saga that, although critical to the Greeks, is mostly just an annoying distraction for global investors — partly because it has been going on for so many years, with the proverbial can of inevitability continually being kicked down the road, and partly because there can be no winners in […]
The overheated Shanghai and Shenzhen markets have lost 29 and 32 per cent respectively over the past three weeks following 7-year highs reached on June 12.Instead of welcoming a much needed correction, Chinese brokerages and the Bank of China agreed to prop up the market.Stimulus Short-LivedThe stimulus act has failed already. The South China Morning Post reports Chinese Shares Close […]
The Chinese stock market: officially sanctioned prices? Illustration: David Simonds/The Observer
As Greece holds a referendum that may create more uncertainties than it solves, are we looking in the wrong place for a financial crisis? In China, the authorities are in a fine sweat about a more traditional financial conundrum: a bubble in the stock market. How do you deflate it […]
2015 to date, has been good for my model fund. I am up 23% vs 0% for the S&P500 and vs 20% for the IBB biotech index.
My long-term performance also remains strong – I have turned 385% over the past 10 years vs 76% for the S&P500.I anticipate the second half of 2015 will also be good for my fund. […]
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Welcome to our new series — How did you get that job? — where we’ll run interviews with interesting people about their work and how they came to be doing it.When Brad Katsuyama came to the US in 2002 to run the trading desk for the Royal Bank of Canada, he thought he understood the game. If […]
ReutersAn investor stretches in front of a screen with stock information at a brokerage house in Xiangyang, Hubei province, February 22, 2011.See AlsoChina is flooding the US with insane drug ‘flakka’ — and it’s shockingly easy to obtainThere is something that is a bigger drag on US stocks than Greece or ChinaThere is a new ‘ghost town’ in ChinaAs all […]
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Kyle Anderson: This is the second-longest stretch without a stock market correction for the S&P 500 since 1945, according to RBC Wealth Management.It’s been more than 1,350 days since we’ve seen a correction in the S&P 500.A stock market correction is defined as a 10% dip from the index’s high.Have you ever wondered how billionaires continue to get RICHER, while the rest of the world […]
