Francis Dogbe / Blog
10%= correction, 20%= bear market. I know these arbitrary numbers sometimes seem silly, but when looking at the data, you have to draw the line somewhere. Get over it, let’s move on. The S&P 500 has been in a drawdown for the last eight months. Stocks are currently 9...
The drumbeat of bearishness is reaching a crescendo. Scary, attention-grabbing headlines have become the norm in a market overwhelmed by fear after U.S. stocks kicked off 2016 with the worst calendar-year beginning ever. And it isn’t as if 2015’s returns were anything to be cheerful about...
So three guys walk into a bar, plunk down $5, and ask the bartender for beer and advice. Nah, that’s so 2015! Here’s a joke for today: Three guys walk into a financial planner’s office, plunk down a $1.5 billion Powerball ticket and ask for advice. What should they do...
For the world's worst-performing economies, no good will come from New Year's resolutions to do better. For many, 2016 will only bring more disappointment, say economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Oil-rich Venezuela will contract by 3...
Yesterday the GBP fell throughout the market and forced the euro bulls to drop to 1.0819. The UK industrial manufacturing index fell to a three year low. Other key currencies followed the pound downwards. After trading closed in Europe, the euro/dollar returned to the LB at 1.0877...
Hundreds of copies of Nigeria's 2016 budget have gone missing at the country's parliament, an MP who requested anonymity has told the BBC. The senate was unable to start considering the proposed budget because of the missing documentation, he said...
The second half of 2015 may have very well set the stage for a 2016 that will offer the kind of opportunities Forex traders haven’t seen since the 2008/2009 era, and I don’t say that lightly...
We've been seeing signs that wage growth is on the horizon for quite some time. For example, small businesses have reported planning to increase compensation and have cited "labor quality" as one of their biggest concerns...
Chinese shares continued last week's plunge, with the Shanghai Composite off 5.3% and the Shenzhen Composite falling 6.6%. Both indices closed on their lows...