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By Robert Pritchard Avalanche of bad news Every day, investors get an avalanche of bad news poured over them. The economy collapses, corporate profits evaporate, unemployment rises to record [...]

Negative oil price The corona crisis turns many economic laws upside down. Yesterday another border was shifted. Buyers of a barrel of oil received almost 38 dollars when buying a barrel of West [...]

By: Robert Pritchard A new report from the BIS The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), i.e. the bank of central banks, recently published its latest report. Now the BIS is an authoritative [...]

By: Jan-Willem de Jong Investing involves risks, which we have experienced in all ferocity over the past weeks. A share price is nothing more than the discounting of all future profits of a [...]

The end of the longest ever A month ago, after eleven years, the longest bull market on the stock exchange ever, ended on the head. In March 2009, the most hated, but longest-running stock market [...]

By: Wolfgang Jäggi Is three times the charm this time, too? If the ministers of oil exporting countries reach an agreement today, today the most important item the financial markets are looking [...]

Enormous havoc To the surprise of many, the devastation caused by the coronavirus on the stock exchanges in recent times also didn’t leave the gold untouched. Whereas the shiny precious [...]

Will the shore turn the ship? Oil prices are rising sharply today. The more expensive oil has a number of causes. Firstly, there is a very practical cause. As a result of the enormous oil [...]

By: Yaron S. Goldblum Following in the footsteps of many European banks, the major UK banks also decided yesterday to cancel the payment of the final dividend 2019. These include Barclays, HSBC, [...]