Sex and booze sell on the stock market – Business Insider

Portia Crowe

Feb. 23, 2015, 4:57 PM
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Credit SuisseSee AlsoThe German pizza arbitrage is over for the SwissBARRON’S: For Nasdaq 5,000, this time it’s differentGOLDMAN: Here are the 18 stocks that hedge funds love the mostSex sells. So do booze, guns, and tobacco.In its new Global Investment Returns Yearbook, Credit Suisse compared two mutual funds that launched around the same time in […]

Global stock market 1899 – 2014 – Business Insider

Akin Oyedele

Feb. 19, 2015, 4:24 AM
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The global stock market looks very different today than it did 115 years ago.From Credit Suisse’s new Global Investment Returns Yearbook:”Figure 1 shows the relative market capitalizations of world equity markets at our base date of end-1899. Figure 2 shows how they had changed by end-2014. Markets that are not included in the Yearbook dataset […]