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[ad_1] Joachim Klement, CFA, is the author of Geo-Economics: The Interplay between Geopolitics, Economics, and Investments from the CFA Institute Research Foundation. The war in Ukraine is dominating the headlines. For now. But the conflict’s indirect reverberations will ripple far beyond the borders of its combatants and their allies. Indeed, they could give rise to new and varied geopolitical risks throughout the world. The war’s potential effect on the global grain supply and food inflation is especially alarming. Ukraine is known as the “bread basket of Europe,” and together with Russia, it supplies wheat to developing countries across Africa, the Middle East, and…

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[ad_1] The simplest way to invest in stocks is to buy exchange traded funds. But investors can boost returns by picking market-beating companies to own shares in. To wit, the First United Corporation (NASDAQ:FUNC) share price is 66% higher than it was a year ago, much better than the market return of around 22% (not including dividends) in the same period. That’s a solid performance by our standards! Looking back further, the stock price is 59% higher than it was three years ago. Since it’s been a strong week for First United shareholders, let’s have a look at trend of…

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[ad_1] Washington is running its largest peacetime budget deficit in American history. The national debt held by the public has leaped from 40 percent of the economy in 2008 to 100 percent today—on its way towards 250 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) within three decades. At that point, interest alone would consume two-thirds or more of all federal taxes. And yet, even as a nervous bond market is pushing up interest rates, President Donald Trump—who enacted $8 trillion in spending hikes and tax cuts in his first term—proposes doubling down with even more tax cuts and spending expansions.How can Washington…

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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Butterfly Network (NYSE: BFLY) was a penny stock trading for less than $1 in August. Now, it’s up to $4.40 and a $1bn market cap after a sizzling 368% surge in just six months. Given that I hold the shares in my ISA, surely this is a cause for celebration, right? Well, not quite. Rather than a beautiful butterfly spreading joy across my portfolio, this one’s been more like a moth gathering dust at the bottom of it. You see, I didn’t invest at $1, or even $2 or $4. I bought shares of this…

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[ad_1] Carney is proposing to impose a carbon tax on Canadians that is worse than Trudeau’s. Pictured: Mark Carney. Photo Credit: Mark Carney/X.  It couldn’t have been easy for Liberal leadership front-runner Mark Carney to dream up a carbon tax proposal even more unaffordable than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax.  Yet somehow, Carney managed to […] [ad_2] Source link

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