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Emerging markets or industrialized nations?
The MSCI World Index reflects the stock market development of over 23 industrialized nations, while the MSCI Emerging Markets Index reflects the development on the stock exchanges of the most important emerging markets.
Laffer Curve
Neither history nor economic research supports the thesis of self-financing tax cuts
Are emerging markets worth the risk?
Emerging equity markets have been on a roller coaster ride in recent years. This is not unusual for an inherently volatile part of the global stock market.
Swiss second-line stocks
We can observe large performance differences in the Swiss equity market: Depending on the capitalization segment, the performance deviations are untypically large
Pit stop for the "Twitterer-in-Chief"
The Potus («President of the United States») provides us with many iconic quotes that will probably be repeated in histories and textbooks for decades. Not because they are good, but because they are very clear examples of bad ideas.
Swiss equities as substitutes for Swiss Government Bonds?
Swiss Government Bonds destroy capital over the next 10 years with guarantee
Emerging market equities are very attractively valued
The dollar's rally, which began in February 2018 and accelerated in April, has been a wrecking ball through emerging markets in 2018, leaving a picture of destruction in its wake. The crises in Argentina and Turkey were triggered by this and many foreign investors took flight.
Trade dispute USA - China
The U.S. trade war with the rest of the world, but especially with its largest trading partners China and the European Union, is making new headlines every day. Initial accusations from all sides have developed into a serious conflict.
30 years of SMI - time for a pit stop
30 years ago, the then Association of Swiss Securities Exchanges published the Swiss Market Index (SMI) for the first time. SIX is celebrating the anniversary of what it describes as Switzerland's most important equity index and at the same time opening a special exhibition at the Swiss Finance Museum.
Is the small cap effect in Switzerland a chimera?
With an outperformance of 65.12% over the past 5 years (3/31/2013-3/31/2018), domestic small cap stocks seem to once again confirm a widely known stock market experience, the small cap effect.
T-shirt economy and trade tariffs
Some may wonder about the tit-for-tat in the trade conflict instigated by the U.S. president. Is a trade war really threatening and have the stock exchanges corrected downward by 8% compared to the previous high for the year because of this?