The new government hopes to cure Germans’ distaste the stockmarket
2022-01-13 15:18:48 Jan 15th 2022 THE 177-PAGE coalition agreement between Germany’s Social Democrats, Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens contains grand plans to combat climate change and covid-19, and to speed up digitisation. Tucked away on page 73 is a more modest promise, to fund a small part of its public-pension scheme by investing in […]
Stock-market investors should be ready for 10% fourth-quarter correction, says Stifel’s Bannister
2021-10-21 13:47:00 Investors shouldn’t be surprised by a 10% stock-market correction in the fourth quarter, though a bear market may still be years away, according to a top Wall Street analyst. The outperformance of equal-weighted cyclical stocks versus defensives is nearing a level at which price-to-earnings driven S&P 500 SPX, +0.30% corrections occur, which could […]
Inflation ‘single biggest threat’ to markets and ‘society in general,’ says investor who called stock-market crash in 1987
2021-10-20 07:57:00 “‘The No. 1 issue facing Main Street investors is inflation, and it’s pretty clear to me that inflation is not transitory. It’s probably the single biggest threat to, certainly, financial markets and I think again, probably, to society just in general.’” — Paul Tudor Jones, Tudor Investment Corp. It’s safe to say that […]