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…
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…
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…
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…
In short: “Buy ASML quick” Offcourse we already bought them last year but still we think it is a good buy. We are proud of our dutch company ASML. A spin-off of Philips and now world leader in chipmaker machines. We also have two major chipmakers in our protfolio NVIDIA…
It is not a question if but how much and when do we see inflation this year. As tonight we did not get very good news from the fed. They told us that they expect a rise in inflation later this year. This news from te Federal Reserve by its…
Stocks jumped up and down this week between gains and losses as surging yields take center stage. Wall Street stocks traded mixed on Friday, with battered technology shares recovering some declines amid encouraging data, as fears of rising interest rates caused investors to take fright. The Nasdaq traded 1% higher,…
Thanks to Brexit, the Dutch capital has toppled London as the largest trading center for equities. The figures show that on an average day in January, 9.2 billion Euros in shares were traded on Euronext Amsterdam and the Dutch branch of the stock exchange CBOE Europe and Turquoise, which is…
This was a nice soap this week. GameStop is just a place to buy a video game. On Wall Street, though, it’s become a battleground where swarms of smaller investors see themselves making an epic stand against the 1%. The funds serving the financial elite are starting to walk away…
Just as we predicted what was going to happen to the stockmarkets last week (in this article) came true President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy before he takes office next week. If passed by Congress, it would include $1tn for households,…