Igor Kuchma

More lockdowns, new emergency rate cuts, possible oil deal, falling markets, stimulus bazooka from the U.S. and the rise of European government bond yields. The global economy is living another recession, but this time caused “voluntarily” to stop the expansion of the coronavirus, and not as a consequence of serious imbalances in the economy such […]

This month will be remembered in the stock market’s history as “Black March”. In a matter of days, indexes fell from 20 to 35%, triggering some regulators to ban short selling in order to calm the markets. In particular, Spain’s regulator said the ban would apply to 69 stocks, including all liquid shares whose price […]

Markets continue to present a certain level of instability and fear due to the spread of coronavirus all over the world. Investors are still uncertain of the economic impact it may produce, and even less sure on how to protect their fund when even countercyclical and defensive stocks fall. Despite that coronavirus continues affecting markets […]

MasterCard, United Airline Holdings, Cathay Pacific Airways, Air New Zealand, Burberry group, Pernod Ricard, Royal Philips, Protector & Gamble Co., Adidas AG, Blackmores Ltd., Finnair, Diageo, Tupperware, Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, Ab Inbev, Standard Chartered, HSBC, Tesla, Aston Martin, Toyota, and Danone are just some of the companies to warn that sales and profit may suffer as […]

Two words on the stock market simultaneously provoke feelings of fear and opportunism: crisis and bubble. S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow Jones, Dax30 together with the prices for Gold and Palladium are literally swollen. The shares of the top five American technological firms rose by 52% over the past 12 months. The increase in the firms’ […]

Back in 2008, the world faced one of the worst crises ever experienced by our economic systems. Theoretically, this tragic experience should have taught us not to inflate new bubbles and use monetary policies with caution. Unfortunately, time has shown that central banks will do everything to keep economies growing and stabilizing national currencies, as […]

Despite the fact that the spread of coronavirus continues to affect negatively economic activity, especially transport, tourism and industry both in China and in the Asian region, and gradually begins to cover the whole world, as well stated by Algerian Minister of Energy, stock markets are still performing quite well. In Russia slowing inflation is […]

When it just seemed that things were going smoothly, global financial markets were hit by the Coronavirus fears. There is no doubt that sooner or later a vaccine will be released, however, until then, companies will continue losing money, whilst countries their growth momentum.   Europe In fact, Europe and its major economies already publish […]

Last week, we learned that the deadly coronavirus can negatively affect the aircraft carriers together with the oil prices, at the same time helping streaming service platforms, such as Netflix, to earn new subscribers; and that the future growth of the global economy remains questionable as the IMF decreases forecasts for this year and the […]

One more week stock markets closed in the green zone, in some cases hitting new record highs. The positive performance can be contributed to two major events: the signature of a phase one trade deal between China and the U.S. and the approval of the USMCA trade deal by the U.S. Senate. It is worth […]