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Smartphone im Einsatz: Apple verdient dank dem iPhone mehr als alle anderen Konzerne weltweit. (Bild: Pixabay) US-Konzerne sind bezüglich Umsatz- und Gewinnwachstum führend. Das ist das Fazit einer Analyse von EY der weltweit 1000 umsatzstärksten Unternehmen. Europäische Firmen verlieren den Anschluss. Die Schweizer Konzerne behaupten sich gut.US-Konzerne sind in punkto Umsatz- und Gewinnwachstum weltweit führend: Während die grössten nordamerikanischen Unternehmen ihren Umsatz im...

Der Apfel glänzt platinfarben: Ein Ende des Höhenflugs der grossen Tech-Unternehmen ist nicht abzusehen. Foto: Bodo Marks Auf mehr als eine Billion Dollar – 1’000’000’000’000 Dollar – ist letzte Woche der Börsenwert des Unternehmens Apple angestiegen. Diese Summe ist um rund die Hälfte grösser als die Gesamtleistung der Schweizer Volkswirtschaft im letzten Jahr (das Bruttoinlandprodukt für 2017 wird auf 680 Milliarden Dollar geschätzt). Die Entwicklung zu solchen Werten ist wie diejenige...

In the FT, Leslie Hook reports that activist investors want Apple to address concerns over smartphone addiction and the mental health effects of phone use among children. They refer to psychologist Jean Twenge according to whom teenagers today (“the iGen”) … are more vulnerable than Millennials were: Rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed since 2011. It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this...

In the most ironic story of the day, the company that makes the paper that Swiss banknotes are printed on was just bailed out by the money-printing, stock-purchasing, plunge-protecting, savior-of-global equities…Swiss National Bank. - Click to enlarge While The SNB has a long and checkered history of buying shares in companies… as we have detailed numerous times, it is no stranger to pumping money into companies...

Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” – Ecclesiastes 1:2, King James Version (attributed to King Solomon in his old age) This week’s letter will take a look at the growing number of ridiculous, inane, and otherwise nonsensical absurdities that fill the daily economic headlines. I have gone from the occasional smile to scratching my...

Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” – Ecclesiastes 1:2, King James Version (attributed to King Solomon in his old age) This week’s letter will take a look at the growing number of ridiculous, inane, and otherwise nonsensical absurdities that fill the daily economic headlines. I have gone from the occasional smile to scratching my...

The risk budget this month shifts slightly as we add cash to the portfolio. For the moderate risk investor the allocation to bonds is unchanged at 50%, risk assets are reduced to 45% and cash is raised to 5%. The changes this month are modest and may prove temporary but I felt a move to reduce risk was prudent given signs of exuberance – rational, irrational or otherwise. Moderate Allocation - Click to enlarge   No...

While the broader market for Swiss stocks has risen modestly this year, one ‘entity’ has outperformed its peers by such a staggering margin, it has left bamboozled market experts struggling for an explanation. And that company is…the Swiss National Bank. The price of a share in Swiss National Bank in August rose above 3,000 francs ($3,143) for the first time, more than double the level of a year ago, and up 50% since...

While the broader market for Swiss stocks has risen modestly this year, one 'entity' has outperformed its peers by such a staggering margin, it has left bamboozled market experts struggling for an explanation. And that company is…the Swiss National Bank. The price of a share in Swiss National Bank in August rose above 3,000 francs ($3,143) for the first time, more than double the level of a year ago, and up 50% since mid-July, as the Financial Times noted in a story about its...

Authored by Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna via The Mises Institute, “Switzerland will have the last word,” wrote Victor Hugo in the late 19th century. “It possesses one of the most perfect forms of government in the world.” A contemporary of his, Frederick Kuenzli, a scholar of the Swiss Army, boasted: “No purer type of Republican ideals, no more fixed and devoted adherence to those ideals can be found in all the world...