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Posts archive for 2023
US government bonds trade near their March levels
Yields on 2- and 10-year US Treasuries briefly traded near their highest levels since March, as investors pondered the economic outlook and debt ceiling negotiations dragged on. […]
Brazil looks forward to huge sugarcane harvest
Rain in the first quarter of the year is essential for a healthy sugarcane field. Analysts believe that the Brazilian agricultural yield, that is, sugarcane harvest, could […]
Copper price in free fall
The copper price is in free fall, losing the gains accumulated at the beginning of this year. There are several reasons for this, including the fact that […]
Currency trader sentenced for £70 million Ponzi scheme
A 41-year-old British currency trader offered investors a return of 60% per year. The chief executive of a London-based forex trading company has been found guilty of […]
The three largest ETFs follow the same index
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (ticker: SPY) is the world’s largest exchange-traded fund. In fact, the three largest ETFs all track the S&P 500 index. This […]
What happened to the price of sugar during the 2009-2011 bull market?
The price of sugar is now at a 12-year high of 27 cents per pound, which inevitably raises the question of what happened 12 years ago. What […]
29% of S&P 500 stocks outperform the index
Only 29% of the more than 500 stocks included in the broad US stock market index, the S&P 500, outperform the index’s own performance. This is the […]
Japanese stocks trade at their highest level since 1990
Foreign investors are back. Japanese stocks are trading at their highest level since 1990, as highlighted by CNBC. The equally-weighted Japanese stock market index Topix is trading […]
US credit card debt reaches one trillion dollars
Total credit card debt in the US will exceed one trillion dollars this year. In the last three months of 2022, US credit card debt increased by […]
