Bracing for Brexit
Last year’s Greek acceptance of the ECB bailout package was far from the end of turmoil within the EU. Once more, a referendum on EU membership will be held, and this time the potential impact is substantially larger. On June 23rd Great Britain’s be, or not to be, in the European Union will be put…
China & Their New Two-Children Policy
Followed by the closing of the senior Communist-party in Beijing on October 29th 2015, a very important policy has caught the attention of the whole nation. China has decided to abandon the one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children due to the issue of the aging population. The country will uphold the basic national…
Faster – Higher – Stronger!
We all know about the Olympics, the world’s biggest sporting event. What we do not know is that the Olympic games, not so long ago, was on the brink of existence. This is a story about how commercial forces saved the party and about the hangover that comes with it. The Olympic games with its…
Candy on Credit
This autumn, I started to consume increasingly more and more sweets, something that soon escalated into a full-blown sugar addiction. Generally, I allow myself significantly more treats than I did before my time in Lund, in spite of indebting myself. Through all these treats, I spend money that I have not earned, but rather loaned.…
A Visit to Moore Stephens
The auditing business is a great place to start off your career when university life is over, and it is of great interest for many students. During the eee-days (among many different companies) some of the biggest auditing firms are present to attract the best people. One of those companies is Moore Stephens. An employer…
Raging Bull
After the panic-filled August and shaky September, the tide has turned sharply and stocks are once again on the rise. Throughout October, global stock markets rebounded con gusto, the Dow Jones gained an impressive 8 %. In general, US companies performed well in the last quarter, and the big fears surrounding China and the Fed…
Intervju med Unga Aktiesparare
För vissa är det lika självklart som att handla mat, för andra känns det krångligt, svårt och omständigt. Att investera sina pengar och handla på aktiemarknaderna är något alla kan ha nytta av, och oavsett tidigare förkunskaper kan föreningen Unga Aktiesparare vara ett alternativ för den intresserade . Med över 12.000 medlemmar (varav över 400…
Let us talk about economic indicators
Traditional ways of looking at in which direction the economy is heading includes consumer confidence index, purchasing manager index, housing market, and job creation. Forget the old school way of looking at the economy for a while and consider some slightly more unexpected or unorthodox ways of predicting the economic future. Predicting the future has…
When you are out of fries…
Many of us, me included, enjoy timely visits to various fast food joints. Maybe we do not take pride in it, but they are our saviors when we are in need e.g when you have been studying for twelve consecutive hours and do not have the energy to cook proper dinner, or when you are…
Fed’s Signal Failure
In the wake of July’s Greek Debt Crisis and August’s alarming Chinese growth data, the global stock market is in a state of turmoil. Stock markets worldwide, including Stockholm’s OMXS and New York’s Dow Jones have seen wild intraday trading and this year’s gains of roughly 20 % have been completely erased. In unstable times…
