Since the last decade, Netflix has succeeded in hammering its position as a streaming giant and one of the top dogs in the media and entertainment sectors. The company mainly produces its own content (movies and television shows). Still, it also acquires ownership of other movies and television show content by purchasing ownership or access […]
Online Therapy: Telehealth’s Next Weapon
The global pandemic has set telehealth companies (companies that specialize in providing platforms for remote care of patients) on a record breaking course. Look at Teladoc, symbol TDOC: NYSE, for example, which was the superstar of this whole situation being the best known public company in this area which has seen an increase of 50% […]
Top 10 Stocks That Have Regained Strength During the COVID-19 Pandemic for No Good Reason
The stock market has been in a very strange state of late. With a vast and quick crash in March, markets climbed back so fast that it left us equally as unnerved as the crash itself. It’s hard to make sense of the stock market right now, with companies gaining strength despite an influx of […]
Investing into Biotechnology in 2021 – Interesting Stock Picks
Biotechnology has become an industry that is quite attractive to individuals in terms of investing. One of the reasons for this is that biotechnology is a field where there will always be a demand for consumers given that people will always need medicine and that the technology and prescriptions used to treat medical diseases will […]
5 Stocks That Are Still Gaining In Spite Of The Market Crash
The Coronavirus virus has caused a halt to the global economy. The velocity in which money travels around the economy is vital, along with our productive capacities. Both of these are severely restricted, with high street stores closing, lockdown measures and an end to a lot of office work. This has inevitably had a lot […]
Investing in Small-Cap Pharma Stocks – Yay or Nay?
By 2050, superbugs are predicted to become humanity’s biggest killer, ahead of cancer and cardiovascular disease. This prediction is made by the former director of the World Health Organisation, who claims the post-antibiotic era will put an end to modern medicine. The issue here is one of capitalism, or at the very least, market forces. […]
The largest companies in the US – Do they control our lives?
One major criticism for capitalism has always been the threat of monopolies – a company so large and so dominating in a market that it renders competition obsolete. There are benefits to large companies, such as their innovation and economies of scale, but arguably at the cost of too much power. When you look at […]
Investing like Julian Robertson
Julian Robertson is a big name in US investing, and it’s no wonder why since he is renowned as both the ‘Father of Hedge Funds’ and the ‘Wizard of Wall Street’. He set up Tiger Management in New York in 1980, the first hedge fund and it catapulted him to become one of the world’s […]
The Best Stocks of All Time and How to Pick Them Early
2018 is a heady time to be involved in the stock market. Over the past five years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ indexes have doubled in value. Look back to the bottom of the Great Recession and one will see that stock values have quadrupled. Yet, the best traders […]
Should I Invest in the Chinese Stock Market?
China has gone from being an emerging market to vying for a role as the world’s biggest economic superpower within a few decades, but its growth is showing signs of slowing. The world’s most populated country has two indices: the Hang Seng in Hong Kong, which the UK ceded control of to China in 1997, […]