Market Journal
The New Year is a perfect time to change old habits for the better. Eating healthier food, making more friends and getting fit are popular on the New Year resolutions’ list. Adopting some of these new resolutions will ensure that you are healthy in mind and body in 2022, but it is good to make…Read More
The Santa Claus rally is a sustained bullish market movement which usually occurs during the last week of the year and continues into the New Year. This year’s Santa Claus rally may be threatened by Inflation Risk: Sustained increase in prices which may lead to a more hawkish Fed Supply chain disruption: Sustained disruption leading…Read More
Some key events investors must keep an eye on in 2022 The news in 2021 was dominated by COVID-19. And just when things seemed to be getting better, new variants such as Delta and Omicron emerged and hampered the return to a pre-pandemic normal. Thankfully, many events were held due to the deployment of vaccines….Read More
The emergence of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has caused individuals, nations and investors to react with fear and concern. The variant was first reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 24 November, with the first confirmed specimens found on 8 November in South Africa, and on 9 November in neighboring Botswana….Read More
Introduction 2020 took the world by surprise, and countries scrambled to curb the insurgence of COVID-19. Many believed that vaccines would be “the” way to eradicate this virus and allow our lives to return to a pre-COVID norm. However, things took a different turn. Despite vaccination rates seeing an uptrend in 2021, mutations of the…Read More
Here we feature some of the more popular US stocks – not in any order of ranking – traded by POEMS customers in November. At a glance: Three indices retraced after hitting all-time highs. US President Joe Biden announced the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Federal Reserve. US to release 50 million barrels of oil…Read More
The following lists some of the more popular stocks – not in any order of ranking – traded by POEMS customers in the month of October. At a glance: Three indices hit record highs despite previous month’s low. Disappointing labour market report caused a brief dip. Volatility Index (VIX) closed below 2021 average. Companies are…Read More
In today’s internet of things, we hardly need to type “www” when we surf the internet. However, the World Wide Web or ‘www’ had in truth sparked off a revolution, leading to many innovations we see today, powering the global economy beyond brick-and-mortar, unconstrained by space nor time. In 1989, the World Wide Web was…Read More
What this report is about: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors use to sieve out quality software companies. Shortlisted stocks that may have the potential for long-term capital appreciation, based on the Rule of 40. How to incorporate the Rule of 40 with other traditional metrics like the price-to-sales ratio. Investors are constantly…Read More
What are they and how do they affect an Investor? What is a Corporate Action? A corporate action is any activity that brings material change to an organisation and impacts its stakeholders including shareholders, both common and preferred, and bondholders. Types of Corporate Actions 1. Types of Dividends 2. Capital Repayments 3. Stock Splits/Reverse Stock…Read More

