Market Recaps

These are some of the most outstanding news this week: As of Thursday, in the U.S. stock market, forecast-beating results have helped ease investors’ worries that supply-chain difficulties would dent profits, sending stocks higher throughout October. With nearly 50% of S&P 500 companies having posted results this reporting season, about 82% of those have managed to beat analysts’ expectations for earnings. According to official data released on Wednesday, profits at China’s industrial companies rose at a faster pace in September than in […]

Things to know before traveling during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The first thing to keep in mind and you should know is that things are going to change very fast especially now that people started to get vaccinated quite a lot, being the United States a little more extreme compared to the country Colombia which does not require any test to enter, but as time passes the requirements for travel may become a little stricter. About the things you should know before traveling […]

In this week’s recap, we saw a general rise in global stocks, with the U.S. market ending positive and the European market having its best performance in 7 months on Friday. Earnings figures from banks boosted the markets a lot. Asia-Pacific stocks rose sharply as investors reacted to the release of China’s inflation data for September. Mainland Chinese stocks closed slightly lower. William Shatner, a Star Trek actor, traveled into space at the age of 90 on one of the flights made […]

In this week’s recap, Marcello talks about the possible energy crisis to come due to the increase in energy production costs; moreover, the effect of this and the increase in transportation costs makes the possible crisis look more and more real. Communications infrastructure failures (as happened with WhatsApp this week) may repeat themselves and even last longer. Shares of Moderna, a U.S. pharmaceutical and biotech company, fell -8.94% on Wednesday to $302.42 as European Nordic countries suspend the use of Moderna’s Covid-19 […]

In this week’s recap, Marcello talks about an interview with Robert Kiyosaki in which he discusses the possible collapse of the US economy and the stock market, supporting the idea of seeking other safe havens away from stocks. The gasoline shortage crisis in the United Kingdom foreshadows the possible social conflicts that could be caused by a major crisis. Following the German parliamentary elections, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has taken the majority of the government. On Thursday, the UK announced that […]

In this week’s recap, Marcello discusses the new ban imposed by China on Bitcoin transactions. The Financial Crisis that was on the verge of becoming a reality because of the Evergrande situation, seems to dissipate. Fearing the arrival of a leftist political movement to power in Germany, many millionaires started to move their fortunes out of the country. On Wednesday, it was reported that the main unit of China’s biggest property developer Evergrande had negotiated a deal with bondholders to settle interest […]

In this week’s recap, Marcello talks about a financial Crisis to come due to several economic events that had occurred lately, including hyperinflation. A Hole in the Ozone is now a threat. European power prices have risen to multi-year highs on a variety of factors in recent weeks, coming from extremely strong commodity & carbon emission prices, to lower wind output. What’s worse, the record run in energy prices is not expected to end soon, instead analysts are warning, it is likely […]

In this week’s recap, U.S. stocks were mixed and global equities retreated from record highs as investors balanced growing concerns about the slowing pace of the economic recovery and expectations that the Federal Reserve will delay tapering its bond purchases and traders’ fear the Covid-19 spread will weigh on economic growth. The European Central Bank announced Thursday a slowing in the pace of net asset purchases, under its pandemic emergency purchase program, amid surging inflation & strong economic growth. Euro-zone inflation hit […]

In this week’s recap, Marcello talks about the worst drought in 70 years and how that is affecting the market and Binance has been banned by a third country. U.S. added just 235K jobs in August & unemployment rate fell to 5.2% from 5.4% in July, even as the economy appeared to falter w/surging coronavirus cases. Economists expected employment growth to slow slightly in Aug to a gain of 750K jobs, amid falling consumer confidence & disruptive school closures. Declines in restaurant […]