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The most illiquid stocks are, often, also those with the lowest free float.

As we said before, US exceptionalism was paid for, in no small part, by the rest of the world.

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but stocks have absolute values.

Notably, high-growth tech stocks seemed to have regained favor with investors, at the expense of value and cyclical stocks.

It is no secret that US policy under Trump, and now Biden, was designed to reduce the economic exchanges with China.

Over the past week, we have been seeing yet another shift, back to Big Tech.

Despite the move towards liquidity, an uncertain economy, unprecedented economic stimulus and a gradual recovery make it a good time to buy gold relatively cheaply.

SINGAPORE (Feb 14): Over the past few weeks, we have been bombarded with blow-by-blow accounts of the coronavirus outbreak.

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(Feb 12): The panic selling in global equities resumed after a brief reprieve on Feb 6. The S&P 500 index shed another 3.75% overnight on Feb 8, bringing its total losses to 8.5% since the correction started. While investors’ concern on rising rates was