~Weekly Overview~
Virus Spread and Economic Impact Welcome to the third blog entry of the Weekly Overview Series. This week, the U.S surpassed China as the country with the most Coronavirus cases and this number is expected to increase rapidly to hundreds of thousands as the government response is slow; India is in the spotlight for a […]
~Weekly Overview~
Volatility – Part 2 For this week, we had more of the same situation in the financial market: biggest stock indices crashing and bouncing back the next day and central banks exhausting their few monetary tools left. Nevertheless, there is a new player in the game: expansionary fiscal policy, mainly in the form of increased […]
~Weekly Overview~
Volatility OIL AT REAL RISK… WELCOME TO A PRICE WAR Last week, as anticipated, the OPEC+ meetings that took place to deliver supply cuts in order to stabilise oil prices failed, causing a big drop in the oil market. Russia and Saudi Arabia, main countries of OPEC+ alliance, did not agree in cutting oil supply. […]
An Overextended Bull Market?
Let’s travel back in time. Late June The Bundesbank (German Central Bank) releases the 2nd quarter German economic data. Its GDP has shrunk by 0.2% and Germany could enter a technical recession if this trend holds during the third quarter. The chaos starts. August The so-called yield curve inversion in bonds occurs for the first […]
ETFs
Exchange Traded Funds, also known as ETFs are a basket of securities merged into one and sold on stock exchanges globally. ETFs exist across all asset classes so you could have an ETF consisting of commodities, stocks, currencies etc. They are basically a way of having your hand in different pots but being able to […]