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What are Blue Chip Stocks? 💼 🔵

"Blue chips" refer to shares of large, well-established companies with a history of reliable performance and strong market leadership. These companies, like Apple, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola, are often leaders in their industry and are known for their financial stability. 📈

Investing in blue chips is considered a safer bet due to their proven track record and lower volatility compared to other stocks. They form the backbone of major indices like the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

📊 Inflation Alert in the Euro Area 🚨

Inflation in the Eurozone is slightly above the ECB's target, raising questions about what's next for monetary policy in 2024. As inflation hovers just above the 2% mark, the European Central Bank (ECB) faces a crucial decision: tighten policy to control prices or maintain a balanced approach to support economic growth.

✨ What can we expect from the ECB? 🔍 Continued vigilance on inflation trends 📉 Potential adjustments in interest rates 📈 Monitoring the economic recovery closely

What is TECHNICAL ANALYSIS? 🤔📈

📊 Technical analysis is all about evaluating statistical trends in trading, focusing on price movements and volume to uncover potential opportunities.
Unlike fundamental analysis, which looks at a security’s value through financial data, technical analysis zeros in on market activity to predict future price shifts. 🔍

Eurozone enlargement: It's Bulgaria's turn. And who is next? 🇪🇺

👉The Eurozone currently has exactly twenty members. In less than half a year, it should grow by the twenty-first, which is to become Bulgaria. Even so, there will be six member states in the European Union that do not yet pay in euros.

👀For some, such an option will most likely not even occur, for others the question of joining the Eurozone might not be completely taboo. However, the probability that the Eurozone will grow significantly in the coming years is minimal.

What is INTEREST RATE? 🤔📈

The interest rate is the amount of a lender charges a borrower. The interest rate on a loan is typically noted on an annual basis. You have met with it if you have borrowed some money from the bank.

Unemployment rate in the EU is still unprecedentedly low. 🇪🇺

The unemployment rate in the EU and the Euro Area is the lowest over the last 25year period. We can observe a development which is at least unexpected. The European labour market proved very high resilience, and we can say that neither the covid crisis nor the Russian war against Ukraine (which induced the energy crisis) has hit the labour market in the EU and even in the Euro Area.

🤔Is it a miracle or is there any logic explanation of such a phenomenon?

What is DEFLATION? 🤔📉

👉Deflation is a general decline in prices for goods and services, typically associated with a contraction in the supply of money and credit in the economy.
📊During deflation, the purchasing power of currency rises over time.

Economy of the EU is about to increase the dynamics. Who will be the winner and loser of 2024? 🇪🇺👀

👉Economic growth in the European Union will not exceed one percent this year either. This follows from the current forecasts of the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund. However, both institutions predict that the economy of the 27 countries will grow slightly faster in 2024 than a year earlier.
👉However, the driver of economic growth will not be Germany, on which the economy of the European Union always relies heavily. The largest European economy will rather look for a way out of the recession in which it found itself at the end of last year.

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What is an EXCHANGE RATE? 🤔

👉The exchange rate is used to exchange currencies. It is used in forex. You have probably met with it at a bank if you went there to exchange your currency for a foreign one.

Four years since Brexit: Despite the dark scenarios, no disaster happens 🇪🇺🇬🇧

👉At the end of this January, four years have passed since Great Britain officially left the European Union. Although remainers have warned that the UK will pay a price to leave, there is so far no sign that they are right. Likewise, the predictions of Brexiteers, who predicted an unprecedented economic boom for Great Britain, did not come true.

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What is a DIVIDEND? 💸🤔

👉A dividend is an amount paid by a company to its shareholders. Investing in dividend paying companies is one way to earn passive income from investments.

👉Dividends are usually paid at regular intervals, for example, every quarter or year. The amount of dividend paid depends on the profitability of the company and its financial position. Companies usually set a 'dividend policy' which determines what percentage of profits will be paid to shareholders.

European central bank will likely decrease the rates soon 🇪🇺💸

👉The European Central Bank has most likely definitively ended its cycle of raising interest rates, and the first decrease will probably come already during the spring period.

🤔Not only many experts think so, but also the latest data on the rate of price growth in the eurozone indicate that the inflationary crisis is behind us. Of course, aware of all the risks that continue to persist due to the heightened geopolitical situation in the world.

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What are FAANG Stocks? 📊

👉FAANG stocks are the publicly traded stocks of U.S. technology giants Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. They are among the best-performing technology and most well-known companies in the world.

👉All the companies are traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market. In addition, the FAANG stocks are part of the S&P 500 Index, which includes the 500 largest publicly-traded companies by market capitalization traded on the NYSE or NASDAQ.

No Cheers Over the Hesitant Economic Recovery of the EU 🇪🇺

👉The economic performance of the European Union will practically stagnate this year. For next year, key institutions expect a slight acceleration of GDP growth, with inflation currently falling to a level close to three percent. Several factors are behind the slow economic recovery.

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What is the FED? 💸🇺🇸

👉The Federal Reserve System (the Fed) is an independent, non-profit government institution in the United States. It is the central banking system of the United States of America. Like other central banks, it was established to provide the country with a safe, flexible and stable monetary and financial system. As a central bank, it has control over the production and distribution of money.

📊The FED owns its own stock, which is owned by twelve non-profit Regional Reserve Banks established directly by the U.S. government.

👉The political independence of the FED institution is mainly guaranteed by the fact that the government has direct access to it only through the election of its management. Which means once every 14 years.

European car industry: Let´s take competition as an opportunity 🇪🇺

🚘The automotive industry is one of the most important sectors of the European economy.
📊Even before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, it accounted for about 17 percent of total industrial production and about seven percent of GDP.

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What is cash flow? 💸🔄

👉Cash flow is the net cash and cash equivalents transferred in and out of a company.

👉Cash received represents inflows, while money spent represents outflows. A company creates value for shareholders through its ability to generate positive cash flows and maximize long-term free cash flow (FCF).

Environmental Social Governance, what is ESG? 🌱

👉You've probably already come across the acronym ESG.
👉If not, it's an acronym that refers to how companies across industries approach business.

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What is Leverage? 🤔

👉Basically, leverage trading means that the investor can have a trading position that is worth much more than the amount of money they put into the investment.

👉The flipside of leverage is that the risk is also increased - in case the investment doesn’t turn out as planned, you could incur losses higher than the amount you invested, i.e. your debt increases.

How to diversify your investments: think sectors! 🤔

👉Investors can gain exposure to vast investment opportunities through stock market sectors.
The only question is what form their investment will take.

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What is CFD? 🤔

👉A CFD (Contract for Difference) is a contract between two parties who agree to pay the difference between the opening price and the closing price of a particular market or asset. It is therefore a way to speculate on price movements without the investor owning the actual asset.

👉The performance of a CFD reflects the underlying asset. Profit and loss is determined when the value of the underlying asset moves in relation to the opening price position. When trading a CFD you do not own the asset being traded. You are only speculating on the price movement up or down.

Exchange-traded funds💸
What is all the rage?🤔

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What is liquidity? 👨‍💼💸

👉Liquidity determines how easily an asset or security can be sold or bought without affecting its price. Cash is generally considered to be the most liquid, while specialized equipment that will be difficult to sell is considered the least liquid.

👉Market liquidity then determines the chance that you will receive the current price when you fill your order. Liquid markets include oil, for example, and less liquid ones include platinum, where we find a significant spread between bid and ask.

Eli Lilly #2 👀👨‍💼

💊The American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly was founded in 1876. It became famous, for example, as the first serial producer of the polio vaccine or insulin.

🚀Today, Eli Lilly is the largest producer of psychiatric drugs such as Prozac, Dolophine or Zyprexa. In connection with the coronavirus, Eli Lilly came to public attention thanks to the drug Bamlanivimab, which is used as an experimental treatment for covid-19.

👉The end of the covid pandemic did not have a negative impact on Eli Lilly's finances, the company has higher sales and net profit than before the pandemic. Only the first quarter of this year shows that they must expect a decrease in sales and profit.

Long term outlook: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LLY/

Amazon is crushing it 🚀

👉You have probably noticed that e-commerce business is growing day by day. Maybe even yourself started to order more things online. It everything started with the Covid pandemic, when shops were closed, so to only way to get things were online.

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