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European countries are generating huge deficits this year, while at the same time the bond market has slowed to a crawl and is forcing central banks to make difficult decisions that could affect the entire economy.
Here’s what Martin Tarpanov, head of DeltaStock’s “Fixed Income Securities” department, makes of the whole situation and where it could be headed next.
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Twitter’s board of directors armed itself against a potential aggressive buyout a mere day after the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk offered to buy the social network for $43 billion. The company’s management then approved a shareholder rights plan with a limited duration, better known as the “poison pill”.
Here’s what Ivaylo Chaushev, chief financial analyst of DeltaStock, makes of the whole situation and where it could be headed next.
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“The US500 index did incredibly well in 2021, mainly thanks to companies like Apple, which has reached a market cap of close to $3 trillion and whose share price has skyrocketed by 40%, Microsoft, whose share price rose by 53% on an annual basis, Amazon (7% increase), Alphabet (68% increase) and, of course, Tesla (64% increase). That being said, I won’t be discussing these companies here, but rather the ones that really took the index to the next level in 2021.”
Ivaylo Chaushev, chief financial analyst of DeltaStock
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After previously crashing to a then unfathomable record low of 13.44 to the dollar in late November, yesterday the lira plunged to a new shocking low of 17.12 to the dollar after the country’s Central Bank voted to once again cut its interest rate from 15% to 14%.
For perspective, the average mid-2017 value was just 3.5 to the dollar, yet the lira has somehow managed to lose more than 40% of its value against the U.S. dollar this year alone!
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“Investors are looking for the next Tesla and Rivian promotes itself as its major rival, but is far from it. In fact, Rivian looks more like a startup than a company ready to launch its own IPO.”
Ivaylo Chaushev, chief financial analyst of DeltaStock
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Sixty-four years after the Soviet Union launched in space the first manmade object – Sputnik-1, mankind sent off the first space tourists and seriously considers colonising Mars. And while, until recently, space exploration was limited exclusively to government and international agencies, in the past couple of decades, an increasing number of private companies are venturing into the space flight business.