InvestMakers – investment and economic news - investiční a ekonomické zpravodajství

Gateway to the Czech Republic
Jerome Powell's game of Kerplunk

THERE is an old children's game called Kerplunk. It is similar in concept to Jenga. Marbles are poured into a plastic tube through which sticks have been threaded. The players take it in turns to…
- 1. 3. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
A banking centre seeks to reinvent itself

ON A clear day, sunset over Lake Zug is magnificent. Snow-dusted mountains cut through the orange glow above and are mirrored in the lake below. “Zug is our spiritual home,” says Jeremy Epstein, from…
- 24. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
Latvia’s top banking official is accused of demanding bribes

ILMARS RIMSEVICS, for 17 years the governor of Latvia’s central bank, had been due to retire next year. Instead, he is facing calls to resign. On February 17th Latvia’s anti-corruption authority…
- 23. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
Why low returns are inevitable

WHEN the stockmarket is close to a record high, the chances are that recent returns will have been very strong. The terrible tendency among investors is to assume that those returns will continue.…
- 22. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
The markets still have plenty to fret about

BULL markets always climb a wall of worry, or so the saying goes. For much of 2017, the main concerns were political and the markets seemed to surmount them as easily as a robot dog opens doors (the…
- 17. 2. 2018
- Sdílet

Gateway to the Czech Republic
Financial markets abhor an equilibrium

THE recent volatility in the stockmarket has come as a shock in part because equities have been performing well for an extended period. Share prices have been on a broadly upward trend ever since the…
- 10. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
Bitcoin and its rivals offer no shelter from the storm

THE “biggest bubble in human history comes down crashing,” tweeted Nouriel Roubini, an economist, gleefully. After an exhilarating ride skywards in 2017, investors in crypto-currencies have been…
- 9. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
South-to-South investment is rising sharply

AT A meeting in Namibia last month Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, made a pitch to lure African investors to an economy ruined by Robert Mugabe. That he did so first in Windhoek, not…
- 9. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
How to interpret a market plunge

FOR much of the past two years, market watchers have had little to write about, apart from the passing of one stock-index milestone after another. The events of the past week, however, have shaken…
- 7. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
Why sub-zero interest rates are neither unfair nor unnatural

DENMARK’S Maritime Museum in Elsinore includes one particularly unappetising exhibit: the world’s oldest ship’s biscuit, from a voyage in 1852. Known as hardtack, such biscuits were prized for their…
- 2. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
Cancer is a curse, but also a growth market for investors

CANCER is a grim sort of growth market. By 2030 there will be over 22m new cases a year, up from 14m in 2012, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. But as the world marks…
- 2. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
A big Blackstone deal shows how private equity has changed

THE financial crisis a decade ago brought the glory days of private equity to a screeching halt. The debt-fuelled megadeals on which the industry had built its fame (or notoriety) seemed over. But on…
- 2. 2. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
Direct-lending funds in Europe

WHEN Caronte & Tourist, a Sicilian ferry company, needs a new ship, it is cheap and easy to borrow from a bank. But in 2016, when Caronte’s controlling families wanted to buy back the minority…
- 26. 1. 2018
- Sdílet
Gateway to the Czech Republic
Financial regulators too often think “this time is different”

FOR a phenomenon with such predictably bad outcomes, a financial boom is strangely seductive. Not a decade after the most serious financial crisis since the Depression, the world watches soaring…
- 26. 1. 2018
- Sdílet

Předchozí 1 8 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 29 Další

Gateway to the Czech Republic
Akciové indexy Dow Jones a S&P 500 si připsaly přes 4 procenta

New York 4. března (ČTK) - Americké akcie dnes prudce posílily a indexy Dow Jones a S&P 500 si připsaly přes čtyři procenta. Těžily z ú…

4. 3. 2020

Sdílet

Gateway to the Czech Republic
Why a Labour government might mean a fall in sterling

THE British Labour Party is in buoyant mood at its annual conference, expecting to be in power very soon. And it has already started to think about the consequences, including a possible run on the…

28. 9. 2017

Sdílet

Gateway to the Czech Republic
The markets still have plenty to fret about

BULL markets always climb a wall of worry, or so the saying goes. For much of 2017, the main concerns were political and the markets seemed to surmount them as easily as a robot dog opens doors (the…

17. 2. 2018

Sdílet

Registrace proběhla v pořádku