The break due to the Easter holiday did not sit well with the markets. Getting back to the routine is proving to be an uphill battle for many indexes, whose declines so far have not erased the increases in March.
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Black quarter for US stock markets: what happened?
The first quarter of 2022 started out poorly for equity investors, with the S&P 500 declining by 11% during the first 16 trading days of the year and recording 35 down days for the quarter.
More fiscal policy than monetary to control inflation
The conflict in Ukraine is a severe short-term adverse impact, but it also marks the end of the long-term trend.
April, the best month for the stock markets?
According to Mark Twain, October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February, i.e., every month.
How are sanctions against Russia affecting the markets?
Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Western countries unanimously unleashed sanctions on the Kremlin, ranging from restricting seven Russian banks from accessing SWIFT and blocking the transfer of euros to Russia, to restrictions on industry and trade.
MAPFRE Inversión leads the ranking of securities firms in Spain
MAPFRE Inversión, the MAPFRE business area that encompasses the Group's investment services for its customers, led the ranking by fees of Spanish investment companies in 2021 with €17.12 million.
Fed vs ECB: two ways of dealing with impending inflation
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the world is facing a new negative external shock following Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.
Inflation comes the with effects of war baked-in and hits new high on a par with 1985
This week the consumer price index (CPI) data for March was released, and the figure came in at 9.8%, the highest level seen since 1985 and very close to the double-digit figure that many analysts had estimated for the month.
Beware of stock market's false bargains
One of Warren Buffett’s most famous quotes (echoing Benjamin Graham) is “Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” For most people it’s difficult to separate a company’s stock’s price from what it is worth.
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