Tag: stocks
Don’t invest through the rearview mirror
Markets are supposed to look forward; plenty of investors look back instead
How to escape taxes on your stocks
An investor’s desire to minimise his dues is nothing new. “The avoidance of taxes”, said John Maynard Keynes, “is the only intellectual pursuit...
The dream scenario for prediction markets
If you could invent something to fulfill an economist’s dream, it would look an awful lot like a prediction market. A world where...
European stocks are buoyant. Firms still refuse to list there
It must be tempting to give up. Those tasked with reviving Britain’s stockmarket have long faced a difficult task and a steady drip...
Shareholders face a big new problem: currency risk
Imagine someone who found secondary-school maths difficult being grilled about logarithms. That is how a lot of equity investors look if you ask...
Wall Street and Main Street are split on Trump’s chaos
The president prompted a similar divide last time round
