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Alibaba Invested In Lazada Again, Continuing Strategic Expansion In Southeast Asia
Image Source: Pixabay Recently, Southeast Asian e-commerce platform Lazada received a capital injection of USD 634 million from its parent company Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA). It is reported that this funding comes as Alibaba continues to evaluate and adjust its strategies. Alibaba’s total investment in Lazada has exceeded USD 1.8 billion this year.According to statistics, Alibaba […]
NBER BCDC Indicators, Some Alternative Indicators, And Weekly Measures Through Mid-December
As of mid-December, it’s hard to see the recession (even with this morning’s downward revision of GDP growth to 4.9%) so there’s a lot of triumphalism about how the oft-predicted recession of 2023. We only have monthly data through November at best, so perhaps it’s still a little premature to declare victory for 2023 — […]
The Retail Revolution Transforming Commerce And The Consumer Experience
Image Source: Pixabay Join us in this discussion with Greg Buzek, President and Chief AI Officer at IHL Group, as he dives into the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in retail. Discover how AI is reshaping consumer experiences, driving efficiency in supply chains, and altering the economic landscape for small and large retailers alike. From the […]
10 Quality Retirement Stocks Now
Image source: Pexels Income investors have faced a significant challenge in recent years. Generating suitable income to live off a dividend portfolio has not been easy, as the Federal Reserve kept interest rates low for many years. And, soaring stock prices caused the average dividend yield of the S&P 500 Index to sink to multi-decade lows.Interest rates are […]
Gold Price’s Stealthy Breakdown
Remember when I told you that junior miners are likely to decline significantly when stocks decline? That just happened.To a small extent, but still. This means that when the stock market moves much lower, junior miners are likely to slide in a major way, too, creating great profits for us. Let’s take a look at […]
Excuses, Excuses
Image Source: Pexels In 2023, the economics profession preserved its near-perfect record in terms of forecasting recessions—it’s always wrong. Bloomberg discusses some reasons why the forecasts were so inaccurate: As Holmes would put it, the non-arrival of a recession is a curious episode. What about the assumptions at the beginning of the year can have been wrong […]
Free Banking: Myth And Reality
Image Source: Pexels Surely, it is now apparent that central banks are guilty of mismanaging the economy. By slashing interest rates to zero and in some cases to an unnatural minus figure, then flooding financial systems with currency-equivalent credit conjured out of nothing followed by rapidly increasing interest rates in an attempt to stem the consequences, […]
USD/CAD Pierces 1.33 In Broad-Market Greenback Selloff
Image Source: Unsplash The USD/CAD eased into 1.3300 as the Canadian Dollar (CAD) gets one last crack at the handle as markets gear up for the holiday shutdown with a broad-base selloff of the US Dollar (USD).US inflation figures came in below expectations as price growth decelerated quicker than most expected, giving markets the excuse they […]
Ranking The Top S&P 500 Stocks By 5-Year Returns
Despite economic challenges, S&P 500 stocks have demonstrated resilience, delivering significant gains over time.In this graphic, utilizing data from YCharts, we’ve ranked the best-performing S&P 500 stocks based on their 5-year total returns as of November 2023. IT Companies Top the List Surprisingly, neither Tesla (TSLA) nor Nvidia (NVDA) claims the number one spot on this […]
Does The Energy Sector Have The Energy To Offer Good Investments?
Energy Sector StocksIn this video, Chuck Carnevale, Co-Founder of FAST Graphs, a.k.a. Mr. Valuation, will analyze the investment potential of various Energy Sector companies. Chuck will use FAST Graphs to screen for investment-grade credit ratings. He will discuss dividend yields, earnings growth, cash flow, and valuations of different stocks.While some companies have struggled in recent […]
