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has become increasingly evident that Fed Chair Yellen is keen to avoid her legacy being judged as a disappointment via her inability to raise the federal funds rate. She has duly taken note of the failures of other central banks to raise their policy rates away from zero. As recently as last December, Fed Chair Yellen was confident the federal funds rate could be raised without causing…

Financial Market The financial market includes markets in which funds are transferred from people who have an excess of available funds to people who have a shortage. • With weather being around freezing through parts of Florida analysts are worried that Orange Juice corp. will suffer. The orange juice future rose 10% in the past week. Traders are still anticipating a short production because of a disease and fruit sizes being smaller than usual. • After the deep water horizon disaster, oil…

recession, Black Monday, the 1994 Mexican Peso crisis, the dot-com bubble, the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis in the US and the European Sovereign debt crisis, should have been enough of a warning sign, including the now infamous 1998 bailout of the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management. However, nevertheless with all these cautionary signs, supporters of the neoliberalism approach haven’t faulted, continuing the unconditional commitment to the cause due to the severe personal greed of the…

which are Consumer (which offers baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care and women’s healthcare products), Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices. The United States of America Money Policy According to the dictionary of business and economics terms, Monetary Policy can be defined as the efforts of a nation’s central bank aimed at influencing inflation rates, economic growth, and interest…

WHAT IS ECONOMIC GROWTH From two perspective we can interpret economic growth of an economies (Mankiw & N. G. R. E. G. O. R. Y, 2014). 1. The most popular way to define economic growth as the total increase of output which an economy produce over a given period of time , but time constraints at least two year . 2. Secondly we can define economic growth as increase in what a nation can produce if it is using all the scarce resources it has. Economic growth can be shown by an outward shift in…

not related to risk factors of mutual funds. Fama-French model cannot be improved though five-factor model. Compared this three models, Fama-French model has highest adjusted R-square and lowest probability of F-statistic. Therefore, the most suitable model to capture the performance of mutual funds is Fama-French model. However, Fama-French model is not so good. Firstly, the β of ExRm and HML is insignificant, that is to say, the expect return of mutual funds is little related to market…

A book by John Clifton Bogle, founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and one of the greatest investors in the history, titled “Enough”(2009) is a relatively quick and good read in the financial literature genre. Although the book’s jacket is not very attractive— it has no photographs or illustrations, its title, in my opinion, is quite catchy, and attracts ones’ attention. Moreover, the title does encapsulate the main message—that the average investor feeds at the bottom of…

Everything has a cost. The world revolves on an axis of money. Although this has an evil overtone, it gives capital market analysts their job. They are in charge of helping clients, or investors, know when to buy/sell their shares in the stock market. Besides helping them with stocks, a capital market analyst makes several presentations and proves they have a standing relationship with the bank. Before helping the investors know when to buy and sell, they must help them decide what to…

Current Fund Observations: We have looked over your current portfolio. We believe you have done a great job monitoring your investments. You have several different retirement accounts and you were proactive in getting these accounts invested early. You also have a variety of funds in each account. We would like to make a few recommendations to reflect your risk tolerance, risk capacity and risk need. Portfolio Analysis: We have observed some areas of improvements we would like to…

by doing absolutely nothing. Similarly, each of the sources of passive income has this crucial advantage. It is called compound interest. Here, compound interest refers to this gradual increase in money. In financial investments such as dividend funds, however, it works a lit- tle differently. Through compound interest, you will be able to see an exponential increase in your principal amount. It is the art of using your existing money to make more money. While a bank may provide you…