Posted by Bill Johnson in Stock Market
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing. Its three largest or National series are the NASCAR Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series. Regional series include the …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Financial Trends
Google Trends is a website by Google that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across various regions and languages. The website uses graphs to compare the search volume of different queries over time. On August 5, 2008, Google launched Google Insights for Search, a more sophisticated …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Financial Trends
A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives at low transaction costs. Some of the securities include stocks and bonds, and precious metals. The term “market” is sometimes used for what are more strictly exchanges, organizations that facilitate the trade in financial securities, e …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Hedge Funds
Below are the 20 largest hedge funds in the world ranked by discretionary assets under management as of mid-2019. Only assets in private funds following hedge fund strategies are counted. Some of these managers also manage public funds and offer non-hedge fund strategies. For example, BlackRock is the largest investment …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Financial Trends
Agora Financial is a privately held publishing company, based in Baltimore, Maryland, that produces print and email publications, books, and conferences directed toward providing financial advice, commentary, and marketing predictions.
A subsidiary of The Agora network, Agora Financial was founded in 1979 by financial writer and …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Financial Trends
Citi Trends is an American retail clothing chain selling discounted products targeted primarily at urban customers. The company opened its first store in Savannah, Georgia in 1958 under the name Allied Department Stores. The company began renaming its stores Citi Trends in 2000, and officially became Citi Trends in 2001 …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Financial Trends
Gerald Celente (born November 29, 1946) is an American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other important events.
Celente was born in an Italian American family in The Bronx, New York City, New York. He …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Hedge Funds
A “fund of funds” (FOF) is an investment strategy of holding a portfolio of other investment funds rather than investing directly in stocks, bonds or other securities. This type of investing is often referred to as multi-manager investment. A fund of funds may be “fettered”, meaning that it invests only …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Stock Market
A blue chip is stock in a corporation with a national reputation for quality, reliability, and the ability to operate profitably in good and bad times. The most popular index that follows United States blue chips is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a price-weighted average of 30 blue-chip stocks that …
Posted by Bill Johnson in Hedge Funds
A hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited investors or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complicated portfolio-construction and risk management techniques. It is administered by a professional investment management firm, and often structured as a limited partnership, limited liability company …