63 results returned for search: "" category "Business" author Bryan Dooley
The rapid ageing of the world’s most advanced economies makes for both economic challenges and potential investment opportunities. According to a recent study by the United Nations, the ageing demographic is a “megatrend that is transforming economie...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the next US Federal Reserve Bank chairman to succeed Ben Bernanke and so far the financial markets like the decision. Both fixed income and equity markets rose immediately after Yellen’s speech to the Senate Banking...
DATE: Dec 03, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Now that the dust has begun to settle from Washington’s debt ceiling drama which included a 16-day government shutdown, investors are left focusing on the damage done and what’s ahead for the world’s largest economy.
Clearly, America’s ongoing fisca...
DATE: Oct 26, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
The global financial system clearly looks better than it did just a few years ago when the world’s largest banks and many governments found themselves in deep trouble in the midst of the worst recession since the Second World War. But lately conditio...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
During various periods of time throughout history, financial markets have often been driven by one major swing factor which can usually be boiled down to a particular word or phrase. Over the past few years the pivotal buzzword has been Quantitative ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Noticeably absent from this year’s soaring stock market have been emerging market equities and those companies which deal in commodities. Stoked by unprecedented money-printing and massive global “ring-fencing” of the world’s most serious credit prob...
DATE: May 27, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
After the financial debacle in Cyprus last month, some investors may be rethinking the idea of bank deposit safety.
The decision to force Cypriot savers into a bailout came after the country’s largest banks became too highly leveraged and then compr...
DATE: Apr 27, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
With stock market indices pushing new highs, the investment community has become somewhat divided over exactly where we go from here. For one thing, what makes this bull market rather different from those of past eras is the sheer breadth of the rise...
DATE: Mar 30, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Last week the man in the street got exactly what he asked for ... at least in Bulgaria.
For many days, thousands of anti-government protesters had been mobbing the streets of the capital city Sofia, chanting, "Everybody out."
And indeed, a good par...
DATE: Feb 23, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Investment professionals are carefully analysing recent central bank policy announcements, particularly those which have lately caused sharp and sudden moves in several of the world’s largest currencies. Last week, headline news surrounding the plung...
DATE: Jan 26, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
|
AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
