With 2026 just around the corner, Trust Economics offers useful strategies to enhance portfolio resilience, effectively manage risk and maximize returns in an ever-evolving world. Trust Economics’ advice focuses on the need to create a strong “core” in a portfolio and the importance of diversification and hedging strategies to ensure long-term growth and stability. The …
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“Black Swans” warn us of a strong Crash in the Stock markets in mid-autumn 2024
The evidence may point to a significant degree of parallelism between today and the conditions that caused the catastrophic crash of the Great Depression in 1929, and while trying to predict the exact timing of a recession is a challenging but also a relatively fool’s errand, taking steps to protect it’s a wise move. Will …
How healthy is the Global Banking “system”?
Markets are still digesting the fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the second largest bank failure in US history and the biggest collapse since the 2008 financial crisis, which was quickly followed by the collapse of New York’s Signature Bank, when suddenly what seemed to be just a problem of mid-sized American banks …
Options Market
According to Options Clearing Corporation (OCC- www.theocc.com ) the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organisation, achieved in 2020, clears record 7,52billion total contracts and 7,47billion options contracts. A total volume up 71% from a year ago and a rise more than 50% from 2019. What is an option contract An option is a contract between …