The price of gold continues to break historical records in 2025 and wealthy investors have found a new way to make use of their bars: they “rent” them to jewelers and manufacturing companies, earning returns without selling a single gram. Until recently, gold was considered the ultimate “dead” capital: safe, stable, but with no return. …
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The Painful lessons of a three-decade Stock Market Disaster
Japan’s Nikkei 225 is on the verge of surpassing its all-time highs of 1989, ending a 34-year drought for investors in the Land of the Rising Sun. That in itself is cause for celebration on the one hand but also a deeply flawed way of understanding how markets work – both in Japan and everywhere …
Selection of Shares: Technology Companies or Traditional Industries
The recent passage in the Congress of the new $1.9bn “Biden” fiscal package has caused a “frenzy” among investors everywhere, especially those operating on the US stock market. Estimates vary with each financial company trying to create the right momentum for its client-investors so that funds invested during the pandemic in shares of technology and …
Bond Yields Rise: Sign of Expected Growth or Cost Inflation
US President Joe Biden’s fiscal intervention to be used to support the US economy, which is approaching three times the productive gap in the US economy, has caused strong turbulence in fixed income markets, triggering a percentage boost in government bond yields on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis ©The law …
The Rise of Chinese Stock Markets and the Risk of a New “Bubble”
The fact that the Chinese economy came out very quickly from the spread of the pandemic and in particular in the first three months of 2020, managing to revoke all the imposed measures of lockdown and social isolation, justifies as a point the ever-increasing expectations of investors to invest in China, despite the well-known pathologies …