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You certainly heard about Saudi Arabia’s plans to sell a stake of its state oil company Saudi Aramco. Technically, the sale of Aramco would be less than 5% of the company and via an initial public offering (IPO). A 5% listing on the stock market would give it a potential value of over 100 billion USD. It’s gonna be the …

In financial markets, the most significant news are usually the moving of stock market indices. There are hundreds of them across all asset classes. We focus on the most important Indices for stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is probably the best-known and most widely followed financial index in the world. It consists of 30 of the largest publicly traded firms in the …

The S&P 500 index contains 500 large companies listed at the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq. The index can be viewed as a fairly good base, when it comes to examine the performance of different sectors like technology-, pharma-, energy- or cyclical stocks. I checked the data for the past 10 years and came up with the result, …