In short: “The IPSOS Global Consumer Confidence Index measures the consumer spending and future outlook over a certain category and time”. The consumer confidence index started in 1967 and is benchmarked to 1985 = 100. This year was chosen because it was neither a peak nor a trough. The index…
Since 2009, there has been a radical new way of making payments. The creation of the first decentralised peer-to-peer payment system, Bitcoin, has led to the creation of a novel and booming set of payment services- known collectively as ‘cryptocurrencies’. These digital currencies are not created or backed by any…
Gone are the dealers on NASDAQ and the specialists at the NYSE. Instead, a company’s stock can now be traded on up to sixty competing venues where a computer matches incoming orders. A majority of quotes are now posted by high-frequency traders (HFTs), making them the dominant source of liquidity in the market.
Some of our readers got an advanced warning on The List of wiseguys. Sssssst, Let me tell you a secret. We don’t favor anyone, but those who offered us a cup of coffee often have a speed advantage. Because the moment we drank the coffee we had some small talk…
Now one of them is almost perfect to be bought. We look for shares that have a minimum gain of close to 50% a year for a period of at least 5 years, preferbly more. That is the hard part. There are tens of thousands of companies scattered over many…
Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft supplies pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment worldwide. It operates in two divisions, Bioprocess Solutions, and Lab Products & Services. The company offers live cell analysis system, and cell analysis reagents and consumables; cell culture media, including antibody and recombinant protein, viral vaccines, and regenerative medicine media; and multi-parallel, single-use,…
Sector(s): TechnologyIndustry: Software—InfrastructureFull Time Employees: 1,448 Adyen N.V. operates a payments platform that integrates payments stack. The company provides gateway, risk management, processing, acquiring, and settlement services. It offers a back-end infrastructure for authorizing payments across merchants’ sales channels i.e. online, mobile, and in-store, as well as APIs. The payments platform is provided…
The general direction of the economy is fairly predictable on a long time basis. When you look at the long term chart of the Dow Jones Index you can roughly see a stairsstep pattern. There are relatively flat periods for 15 to 20 years, then a rise for 15 to…
In short: A Bar chart consist of symbols (Bars) where the opening and closing price is given as a line to the left and right of the bar. The color green or red shows the movement up or down. What is a bar chart? Bar charts are one of the…
The world’s first shares date back to Ancient Rome Although it was in northern Europe at the beginning of the 17th Century that joint ownership of companies first became popular. The world’s first joint stock company, the Dutch East India Company, was formed in 1602 by the merger of several small Dutch…