The nature of stocks, also known as equities, is that they often suffer declines and these market downdrafts - market pullbacks, corrections and crashes - have different characteristics. Here is the difference between a stock market pullback, correction and crash.
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When sh-t happens at the end of an excessive bubble era, it will always be the worst kind, and what can be worse than a major war that could develop into a nuclear and world war.
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Despite being the world’s biggest carbon polluter, China is also the largest producer of most of the world’s critical minerals for the green revolution. Today's infographic illustrates where the extraction and processing of key metals for the green revolution take place.
Read More »Use Stop-Loss Orders To Protect Your Profits – Here’s Why – and How
The stock market can be very volatile so it is important to use stop-loss orders to protect your profits. Here's why and how best to do so.
Read More »Stock Splits: Why Do Companies Do That? Here’s Why
Stocks can sometimes see price appreciation to the point where they are no longer accessible to a wide range of investors. Splitting the stock (i.e. making an individual share cheaper) is an effective way of increasing the total number of investors who can purchase shares.
Read More »Which Delivers Better Returns – Buying the Dip, Buying the Rise Or Staying On Plan?
When prices drop, should investors buy the dip in anticipation of prices going back up or, when prices rise, should they buy the rise in case the climb continues or should they follow a financial plan? In this article we compare these scenarios to see which one has delivered better returns.
Read More »4 Ways To Protect Your Portfolios In A Rising Interest Rate Environment
This infographic looks at four investment strategies to help investors manage risk during a rising inflation environment.
Read More »What Is ESG Investing? Why Is It Growing? Which ETFs Are Doing Best?
To properly invest in companies that are environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors to inform investment decisions it is important to fully understand the growing importance of ESG investing. Below are 7 reasons for the growing importance of ESG investing.
Read More »Don’t Be Misled: MAJOR Differences Exist Between HUI, XAU & other PM Indices (+13K Views)
The number, market cap and currencies of the constituents of the HUI, XAU, GDX, XGD and CDNX indices differ considerably from each other and, as such, each index presents a different picture of what is really happening in the precious metals marketplace. This article analyzes the make-up of each index to reveal the biases of each to arrive at the answer to the question in the title. Words: 1026
Read More »Compound Interest: “the eighth wonder of the world” – Here’s Why (+2K Views)
Today's infographic...focuses on explaining the power of compound interest - an idea that is absolutely essential to understand. Indeed, the power of compound interest is so compelling that it’s been often called the “eighth wonder of the world”. Find out why this concept is so fundamental to personal finance in the following infographic:
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