MICROSOFT for Investors and Users

MICROSOFT for Investors and Users Microsoft performance in 2015 is mirroring that of IBM. Windows 10 is an effort to make Microsoft’s ecosystem run more like Apple’s. If it works, and Microsoft succeeds in becoming its own OEM, the stock could rocket upward. A funny thing happened on the way to Windows 10. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)…

EUROPA: Germania e Malta con il record della più bassa disoccupazione giovanile

EUROPA: Germania e Malta con il record della più bassa disoccupazione giovanile Mentre l’Italia fa segnare il nuovo record assoluto negativo da quando sono disponibili le serie storiche ISTAT con un tasso di disoccupazione al 44,2%, in aumento di 1,9 punti percentuali rispetto al mese precedente, a MALTA si vede il livello storico più basso mai…

Private equity is finally getting ready to cash in (kkr)

Private equity is finally getting ready to cash in (kkr) n July, three companies that were targets of some of the largest ever leveraged buyouts — Univision, the Spanish-language broadcaster; technology company First Data; and supermarket Albertsons — filed to go public. The companies are also notable because they’ve been owned by private-equity funds for…

Inflation: how much is too much?

Inflation: how much is too much? The last few years have seen central banks using monetary policy to fight deflation and grow the economy. Over the next few years, the risk of those banks overshooting their inflation target rates is a very real possibility. Here’s why central banks may welcome that outcome. global inflation will…

Emerging market rapids v calm US waters

Emerging market rapids v calm US waters There is also the circumstantial evidence that the US market only entered this financial Sargasso once the Fed had administered its final injection of QE bond purchases at the end of last year. That might imply that the second wave of normalising monetary policy — raising rates —…