Understanding Corporate Credit Spreads

Let us examine one useful indicator of investor sentiment and the economic climate – Credit Spreads. A credit spread, not to get confused with an options strategy, is the difference…

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A Look Back at 2022

A Year Mired by Uncertainty At the start of 2022, the raging spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 began to dampen economic sentiment as many countries were forced to…

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Climate Change and the Economy

The gradual heating of the earth’s surface and oceans since the dawn of industrialisation has led to a significant reduction in the volume of ice in the earth’s coldest regions…

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Citizenship by Investment: Importance to the Caribbean

Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program is defined by the World Citizenship Report as, “the process that legally grants individuals and in some cases, their families, a second citizenship through investments…

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Inflation Expectation For The Remainder Of 2022

Rising inflationary pressures have been a challenge for many governments and central banks around the world.  Since 2021, global prices have risen faster and more persistently than expected, driven by…

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Global Macro Outlook: Weaker Conditions to Persist

In its latest World Economic Outlook for October 2022, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its world growth forecast for 2023. It left the 2022 growth forecast unchanged at 3.2%,…

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Short Selling

For most investors, the primary objective of investing in a stock is to make a profit and this is accomplished by taking a “long” position, which means buying and owning…

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