Uranium is a non-renewable natural resource that is utilized as a substitute for traditional fossil fuels like coal and natural gas. It’s a highly unstable element that’s employed in nuclear reactors all around the world. Uranium, despite being a commodity, cannot be exchanged directly due to its radioactivity. Rather, investors can obtain exposure to uranium […]
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The recent price increase has rightly concerned Americans, and Senator Manchin has used rising prices a primary justification for his opposition to the enormous Build Back Better Act (BBB). Both feel that the BBB, notably the tax increases, will cause prices to rise even more. On the other hand, President Biden and others reject the […]
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Stock index futures, such as the S&P 500 E-mini Futures (ES), reflect expectations for a stock index’s price at a later date, based on dividends and interest rates. Index futures are two-party agreements that are considered a zero-sum game because when one party wins, the other loses, and there is no net wealth transfer. While […]
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GDP quantifies the monetary worth of final goods and services produced in a country over a specific period of time, i.e. those that are purchased by the end user (say a quarter or a year). It is a metric that measures all of the output produced within a country’s borders. What does GDP measure and […]
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Indeed, the year is starting with little signs of progress, as the late-year spread of omicron, along with the fading tailwind of fiscal stimulus, has experts across Wall Street lowering their GDP projections. When you add in a Federal Reserve that has shifted from its most accommodative policy in history to hawkish inflation-fighters, the picture […]
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Rising inflation can have a significant impact on government debt-to-GDP ratios, both in nominal terms and in real terms, by raising GDP and lowering real interest rates (assuming unchanged nominal rates). What effect does inflation have on government debt? Spending cuts of any type are almost as unattractive to lawmakers. Taking away what the electorate […]
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When inflation is high, value stocks perform better, and when inflation is low, growth stocks perform better. Are value stocks desirable in an inflationary environment? It seems strange to be concerned about inflation during one of the sharpest and most severe economic downturns in our lifetimes. However, given the Federal Reserve’s massive government spending and […]
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Yes, if you are of trading age, you can swing trade futures, but you must understand how the market works in order to avoid putting your money at danger. Futures is a unique market in which trades are made in contracts with specific expiration dates. Swing trading futures entails buying and selling a contract over […]
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A cash settlement is a technique of settlement used in some futures and options contracts in which the seller of the financial instrument does not deliver the actual (physical) underlying asset but instead transfers the accompanying cash position when the contract expires or is exercised. What is the procedure for cash settled futures? When physical […]
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Argentina competed with other South American countries and a few countries from other areas of the world for the dubious honor of having the world’s highest inflation rate from the end of WWII until the 1990s. The price rise in Argentina was propelled by rapidexpansion of the money supply, as is always the case with […]
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