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Yesterday, the monetary policy meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB) was scheduled. The minutes of the previous meeting in October show that the ECB was surprised by the weak inflation rates [...]

A vaccine A fortnight ago, on Monday 9 November, Pfizer reported an effective vaccine against the coronavirus. Although this news had been in the air for some time, the prices on the stock [...]

A pension fund that invests more than 100 billion euros in bonds with negative interest rates has left raw material investments altogether this year. The fund lost EUR 4 billion this year on [...]

There are countries that welcome the departure of Trump and countries that would have preferred a different outcome. Canada, Mexico, France, Iran, Japan, and South Korea would have preferred [...]

Last weekend the 15 countries of the ASEAN together with Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), resulting in the [...]

In September, Yoshihide Suga took over from Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister. As party secretary of the LDP, Suga was responsible for the implementation of Abenomics and a [...]

In a study of 94 Corona patients, the vaccine from Pfizer and partner BioNTech was found to be 90% effective. That result was good for one of the largest sector rotations ever. Equities [...]

Many investors prefer domestic shares to foreign shares. Reasons for this are lower transaction costs, less currency risk, less dividend leakage or even a better hedge against domestic inflation. [...]

Because of the presidential elections, the two-day policy meeting of the US central bank began on Wednesday instead of the usual Tuesday. Monetary policy was left unchanged as expected, partly [...]

The Divided States of America Today is the day. It is up to the American electorate to decide who will be the White House resident for the next four years. Will it be the current president? He [...]