Tesla stumbles, Buffett leaves, Venezuela tests markets
The year 2026 has started sharply: Tesla has lost its position as the leader in electric car sales to BYD, Buffett has retired, an…
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Financial markets in a year of plenty. Prague and silver surprised
Finding the best investment of the past year is like looking in the rearview mirror and telling yourself that's where the right pa…
Demand for AI is growing, answers are lacking
Gold breaks records, oil falls and AI divides markets. Investors enter a year of uncertainty.
How property prices affect fertility
When discussing the decline in birth rates, rising property prices are often cited as the culprit. Is such a conclusion merely the…
Chips are just quality shovels in the gold rush. But it is unknown how much gold is under the mountain
The past week was excellent for the financial markets. Investors quickly forgot that there was supposed to be some kind of bubble …
Google is taking over the AI peloton
Alphabet recently unveiled the third version of its Gemini 3 model. By many metrics, so far this model is proving to be the best o…
Who really decides on interest rates? The hidden power of regional Fed presidents
The Federal Reserve System (Fed) is made up of 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Together with the Governors of the Federal Reser…
Investors abandon ship, but captain reports all is well
The financial market downturns have been going on for three weeks now. The situation is opaque in that there is no single cause, b…
Digital money issued by central banks is a parade of failures
The winner in the race for bad digital money is clearly Nigeria's e-Naira. The emergence of China's state-owned digital currency, …
The concrete wall of artificial intelligence
At the end of last week on November 13, we witnessed one of the worst trading sessions of the year.
Longest shutdown, shortest memory of markets
At the beginning of the week, the markets opened on an optimistic wave that the end of the shutdown was near. Although sentiment o…
Musk's trillion-dollar jackpot
Nothing changes in the markets. One day it's a disaster as a huge financial crisis looms. The next, nobody remembers the crisis an…
Hundreds of billions in AI – the only bet worth making
A kind of schizophrenia continues to prevail on the markets.
Trump als Chef-Investmentmanager und die aufgeblasene Blase der Quantencomputer
Die Überseemärkte setzen ihren Aufschwung fort. Der Optimismus der Anleger wird durch die Erwartung weiterer Zinssenkungen genährt…
Pause im Goldrausch. Warum verliert Gold seinen Glanz?
Die jüngsten Ereignisse auf den Märkten erinnern an eine wilde Fahrt auf einem Karussell – Probleme folgen in rascher Folge aufein…