Speculative investments aren’t inherently good or bad. What sways them one way or the other is the soundness of the reasoning powering the speculation. “I believe the price of XYZ Company will rise because Mercury is in retrograde” is speculation not rooted in provable factors – there’s ...
A sustained incremental increase in enterprise value as measured by total shareholder return is typically seen as the end goal for shareholders in a publicly traded company. Yet, more speculative investors with shorter time horizons will look to other indicators of performance, like volatility, to ...
Machine intelligence superior to the human brain is also known asartificial superintelligence, a highly speculative concept. According to the theory, significant innovations in genetics, nanotechnology, automation androboticswill lay the foundation for singularity during the first half of the 21st century....
Along with the development of society, more and more problems are brought to our attention, one of the most serious issue is the gray population. Nevertheless, the significance of elderly people in society cannot be overstated. As...
This begs the question: What is a good real estate investment for 12 months? I thought maybe it would make sense to put the money into aReal Estate Investment Trust (REIT)? This would expose us to a high quality portfolio of properties across the US (or the World). ...
A—good BBB—adequate "Junk" (Speculative) As mentioned earlier, once a bond's rating drops into the double-B category, it falls into the junk bond territory. This area can be a scary place for investors who would be harmed by a total loss of their investment dollars in the case of ...
A speculative portfolio is best for investors who have a high tolerance for risk. Speculative plays could includeinitial public offerings (IPOs)orstocksthat are rumored to be takeover targets. Technology or healthcare firms in the process of developing a single breakthrough product would also fall...
Some funds that perform well over several years rely on speculative growth stocks that can quickly collapse during broad stock market corrections. The Ark Innovation ETF (ARKK) is a recent example of this trend. The fund outperformed its peers for many years but is down by roughly 70% from ...
Is it possible to acquire an additional language in the same sense one acquires a first language? 【解析】sense∧→as。本句的句意是"是否可能像学习母语一样去学习一门外语?"这句话里有一个非常明显的比较结构in the same sense,但文中缺少一个关系代词as,它往往...
Earth is the planet of life. Running, crawling or flying, life abounds everywhere.地球是一个满是生命的星球。奔跑着的、爬行着的或飞翔着的，到处都是生命。But for all this beautiful diversity to have proliferated, Earth has had to provide a favourable environment for around four billion years. ...