It is a fundamental fact that anything organic that takes a negative hit, its sensitivity in the first stage must immediately adjust its performance by reducing its activity accordingly. It is then gradually adjusted and when a second or third negative hit is achieved the organic element is fully adapted and works effectively at the …
The Reasons of Why the Upward March in Stock Prices might continue in 2021
Many analysts consider some data that unfolded during 2020 and particularly at the end of 2020. With the announcement that vaccine production has begun and the mass vaccination of the world’s population against Covid-19 has begun, it gave the early signal that the pandemic is over. The governments of developed countries have already prepared in …
Why Stocks are Still Cheaper in Relation to Bonds?
It is a fact that U.S. stock prices are at their highest historical level. But for someone to decide whether to keep their shares in their portfolio in the new year, it will be the wrong strategy to look at how high their share prices can go. What matters to the investor is that the …
Will the Reform of a Company’s Listing Criteria Give Healthier Stock Markets to China?
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order last November (2020) banning American investment firms from investing funds in Chinese companies located on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and working with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), forced on December 31, the NYSE to announce that it would remove (delist) the Chinese companies China Telecom, …
The Taxation of Stock Options and the Free Cost Provision of Shares to Employees respectively
Incentives for employees to achieve specific corporate objectives are either the provision to them of free shares or stock options in shares, which give them the right to buy shares of their own at a preferential price or of the parent (usually) company of the group. The tax treatment of these incentives in the EU …
The Eurozone/EU Economy for the forthcoming Decade (2021-2030)
The Eurozone & EU economy equally is expected to start recovering by the end of Q3 2021. But until then the economies of the euro area member countries will be characterized by high budget deficits in their annual government budgets, by high public debts (in some euro area member countries general government debt will exceed …
Pandemic Forces Governments to Adopt Socialist Economic Policies
The ever-increasing implementation of the monetary policy, which, due to the pandemic and its measures to deal with economic shutdowns and social isolation, in other words the continuous printing of money, is being used to cover the damage caused to economies while providing state aid to both workers and businesses (in the form of subsidies …
The Eurozone/EU Economy for the Next Decade (2021-2030)
The Eurozone & EU economy equally is expected to start recovering by the end of Q3 2021. But until then the economies of the euro area member countries will be characterized by high budget deficits in their annual government budgets, by high public debts (in some euro area member countries general government debt will exceed …
Pandemic Forces Governments to Adopt Socialist Economic Policies
The ever-increasing implementation of the monetary policy, which, due to the pandemic and its measures to deal with economic shutdowns and social isolation, in other words the continuous printing of money, is being used to cover the damage caused to economies while providing state aid to both workers and businesses (in the form of subsidies …
Success Guide for CEOs for the year 2021
What is certain is that 2020 was disastrous for both the macro-economy (country economies, country bloc economies and the global economy) and the micro-economy (businesses, companies, groups of companies, etc.). No one can accuse the Chief-Executive-Officers (CEOs) and general managers of companies and businesses in general of failing to anticipate this mess caused by the …