Actions should be shaped by beliefs and values, not emotions. When investors understand volatility, they can manage market movements better and make better decisions. They can steer their financial ship with confidence, rather than sitting powerless and being pushed around by the market’s powerful ...
That outperformance has turned the country’s stocks into a favourite with global investors, who have increasingly shunned Chinese equities amid a domestic slowdown and geopolitical tensions with the US. Trading volumes of options on Indian equities have even eclipsed those on Wall Street stocks, whil...
With this dotcom boom-like mindset, the search for the next has led individual investors to the tech names that have yet to make money. They are piling into the fuel cell manufacturer Plug Power (12 per cent of the index), which has soared from $7 to $70 the last six months. Or t...
Roll your memory back to late 2011. Occupy Wall Street dominated international headlines, and in Oregon, Occupy Portland protesters crowded the downtown blocks that then-business analyst Jim Conachan crossed daily to reach his office. “Everyone was upset,” says Conachan’s business partner and ...
The Jan. 17 Kobe earthquake not only upset some firm’s profit projections, but also led to a shift of government-controlled postal savings and pension funds out of stocks toward the reconstruction effort. And the recent rally on Wall Street has further depressed Japanese stocks by prompting som...