Tag: Stock

  • One of the Most Turbulent Summers in Recent Financial History

    One of the Most Turbulent Summers in Recent Financial History

    The summer of 2024 will be remembered as one of the most turbulent in financial history. A series of unsettling events began in July when doubts about the AI hype and sector rotations started to shake the markets. This instability continued through August, culminating in significant disruptions across global financial markets.

  • Global Market Discrepancies: Navigating the Impact on Credit Ratings Amidst Political and Economic Uncertainty

    Global Market Discrepancies: Navigating the Impact on Credit Ratings Amidst Political and Economic Uncertainty

    The recent divergences in global stock markets, as highlighted by Dr. Eduard Baitinger in his “FERI Markets Update June 2024”, offer a nuanced perspective that can deeply influence credit ratings. The discrepancy between the European and American markets is particularly significant, with Europe currently struggling due to political uncertainties, such as the anticipated gains of…

  • Rating Forest Investments

    Rating Forest Investments

    Understanding the importance of sustainability has popularized an asset class that used to be reserved for the state, churches and nobles. Forest – to be precise its wood – has always served people as fuel, product and building material. Forest has now become the epitome of sustainable investments. The idea of sustainability emerged in a…

  • When Stocks Are Too Good to Sell – Crossings Can Be Dangerous

    When Stocks Are Too Good to Sell – Crossings Can Be Dangerous

    Private investor crossings are independent transactions in which an investor enters a buy and a sell order for one and the same security in a timely manner and thus buys the security himself. Such crossings are bogus and prohibited, warns the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA). Crossings are a form of market manipulation. Many private…

  • Well on Track with Around 50% Growth

    Well on Track with Around 50% Growth

    The business development of artec technologies AG (ISIN DE0005209589) in 2020 was positive overall, despite challenges related to the corona pandemic, reports the company from Diepholz / Bremen. After annual sales that increased by around 50% to EUR 3.15 million, the Management Board expects – as forecast, subject to the review – a significantly improved…

  • Rock Tech Rocking the Market

    Rock Tech Rocking the Market

    What made the stock price of Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (Rock Tech) double within just two months? The answer might be here: Apeiron Investment Group, the family office of serial entrepreneur and investor Christian Angermayer is committed to the success of Rock Tech. Christian Angermayer sees a huge opportunity and the perfect timing for his…

  • DEFAMA’s Gemstones Among German Commercial Real Estate

    DEFAMA’s Gemstones Among German Commercial Real Estate

    The Berlin-based Deutsche Fachmarkt AG (DEFAMA) invests specifically in small retail properties in small and medium-sized cities, predominantly in northern and eastern Germany. The most important purchase criteria are two or more chain stores with good credit ratings as anchor tenants, if possible no more than 10 tenants and an annual net rent of at…

  • CoStar: A Star Rising Higher

    CoStar: A Star Rising Higher

    The Washington based CoStar Group (WKN: 922134 / ISIN: US22160N1090, Symbol: CSGP), with a staff of over 4,300 worldwide, is a company to watch in the rating industry, since CoStar is a leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces. In addition to its importance to the rating industry, it is also…

  • A Case of Rating Repair for a Small Publicly Traded Company

    A Case of Rating Repair for a Small Publicly Traded Company

    A small publicly listed company is a company whose shares are bought and sold on a particular stock market even though turnover or total assets are small in comparison to other listed companies. Every big story starts small. Therefore, among small companies there are often also stock corporations with exceptionally high potential for a good…

  • Equity Rating Repair

    Equity Rating Repair

    Stock instruments issued or to be issued and / or traded on certain stock markets may be the subject of ratings. Stock ratings reflect the risks associated with the creditworthiness of the issuer and the stock market liquidity of an instrument. However, they do not address the risk of loss associated with price changes and…