Today the US Fed raises the rates from 2% to 2.25%. The stock market has been embroiled in a sea of red declines since October and the rising benchmark borrowing interest rate has been blamed as one of the causes. Actually the long term trajectory of the interest rates has been on decline since 1980.… Continue reading US Federal Interest Rates
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It’s Not You, It’s The Machines
About 70% of the trades in the US stock market are made by computers. That means that there are many computer programs that automatically buy and sell stocks everyday without human intervention. The programs take in a variety of inputs such as the news, analyst reports, financial performance, economic data, etc. and then make a… Continue reading It’s Not You, It’s The Machines