Already, 2014 is shaping up to be an exceedingly robust year for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Announced deals so far this year total $1.6 trillion globally, up a whopping 79 percent from las...
By Bryan Dooley
Over the past year or so, emerging market equities have been an investment pariah, regularly slammed on concerns of political upheaval, falling growth rates and financial imbalances. H...
The rapid ageing of the world’s most advanced economies makes for both economic challenges and potential investment opportunities. According to a recent study by the United Nations, the ageing demogra...
Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the next US Federal Reserve Bank chairman to succeed Ben Bernanke and so far the financial markets like the decision. Both fixed income and equity markets rose immed...
Now that the dust has begun to settle from Washington’s debt ceiling drama which included a 16-day government shutdown, investors are left focusing on the damage done and what’s ahead for the world’s ...
The global financial system clearly looks better than it did just a few years ago when the world’s largest banks and many governments found themselves in deep trouble in the midst of the worst recessi...
During various periods of time throughout history, financial markets have often been driven by one major swing factor which can usually be boiled down to a particular word or phrase. Over the past few...
Noticeably absent from this year’s soaring stock market have been emerging market equities and those companies which deal in commodities. Stoked by unprecedented money-printing and massive global “rin...
After the financial debacle in Cyprus last month, some investors may be rethinking the idea of bank deposit safety.
The decision to force Cypriot savers into a bailout came after the country’s larges...
With stock market indices pushing new highs, the investment community has become somewhat divided over exactly where we go from here. For one thing, what makes this bull market rather different from t...
