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12 terms every investor should know

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Are you dreaming of an investment portfolio that would be the envy of the financial hot-shots on Wall Street, but don't know where to start?

Granted, no one should discourage your investment dreams – but you can't settle for mere daydreams, either. The power to launch financial fortunes begins with knowledge, and for every acronym and bit of jargon, there's an easy explanation to boost your confidence.

Here are 12 terms from the world of finance and investing explained in simple, clear language.

Apple named 2015 world's most valuable brand

Apple has overthrown Google to reclaim its title as the world’s most valuable brand for the year 2015. The company had a great surge in 2015 thanks to the huge success of its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s, beating Google with a growth of over $70 billion. Microsoft came 3rd in th

China's stocks got smashed again

China's stock market sell-off accelerated in late trading on Friday as news that the regulator's investigation into securities firms shook traders' confidence. The composite index in Shanghai is down 5.48% to 3,436.3.

Earlier in the day stocks were already under pressure after the release of Chinese industrial profits, which fell 4.6% over the past 12 months, a sharp acceleration in the decline after last month's 0.1% fall.

Selling really accelerated in post-lunch trade after both Reuters and Bloomberg reported the regulator was investigating numerous securities firms.

Buhari's policies annoying and sending away investors- Bloomberg

International Business magazine, Bloomberg.com today published an article title "Buhari Bounce Becomes Bust as Nigeria Policies Irk Investors". The article states that President Buhari's policies since assuming office has continued to chase investors away and has dashed the hopes of many who believed in him when he assumed office. Read the full text of the article below

How Chinese investors are taking over the New York real estate market

For more than two decades, China’s most populated city, Shanghai, has experienced a building frenzy unlike any other: Developers have built office buildings in the city of 24 million as far as the eye can see, including skyscrapers like the under-construction Shanghai Tower, one of the tallest in the world.

But increasingly, Chinese developers and investors are looking elsewhere to build. And a fast-growing number are setting their eyes on New York.

Chinese investors pumped more than $3 billion into the New York real estate market last year. That was nearly 43 percent more than they invested in 2013. And it appears to just be the tip of the iceberg.

Chinese insurers are expected to pour $73 billion into buying properties all over the world

Chinese insurers are expected to spend US$73 billion in acquiring overseas properties over the next five years as they speed up diversification, according to a research report published on Wednesday by real estate services firm DTZ/Cushman & Wakefield.

The report says the recent volatility in equity markets worldwide would prompt mainland Chinese insurers to accelerate their real estate investment strategy, diversifying away from domestic holdings.

A sign that the world's richest are about to hit a rough patch

Quietly, over the last three months, Sotheby's auction house has seen its stock lose one-quarter of its value.

This is, in large part, due to its high-end clients. Something is about to happen to them.

The polite way to say it is that — as Sotheby's CEO Tad Smith put it earlier this month — they are about to get more "discerning."

The frank way to say it is that they're about to get walloped by this year's choppy markets. 

Sotheby's stock price is warning of this. Yes, we're seeing record-breaking sales for some items, like a Modigliani painting sold by rival Christie's for $170 million earlier this month, but if you look below that tier the picture isn't so great. 

These are the 21 richest American entrepreneurs under 40 — and they all made their fortunes in tech

Forbes has released its first-ever list of the richest American entrepreneurs under 40 years old, and it's completely dominated by the tech industry in California. 

Of the 40 entrepreneurs they looked at, a full 34 made their money in tech, with 33 living in California. They included those who were either born in the US or who built their companies here.

When we narrowed the focus to only those who had made over $1 billion, the list dropped to 21, and every single one had made their fortune in tech.

These mostly self-made billionaires include founders of some of the most iconic tech companies of the past few years, like Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter, and Uber. 

Stocks are little changed

Stocks were slightly lower in early trading on Thursday morning, following strong gains in the previous session.

Near 9:39 a.m. ET, the Dow was down 36 points, the S&P 500 was down 2 points, and the Nasdaq was down 4 points.

The S&P 500 climbed back above its 200-day moving average, a signal to some traders that stocks have resumed an upward trend. Stocks surged to the highs of the day yesterday after minutes of the Federal Reserve's October meeting showed again the Fed was gearing up for a rate hike next month. 

Digital-payments company Square makes its public-trading debut today. Yesterday evening, the company priced its IPO at $11, below the initially indicated range of $11 to $13. 

Martin Shkreli bought more than 50% of a pharmaceutical company that said it was shutting down, and now the stock is up 480%

Martin Shkreli is at it again.

Late Thursday night, the pharmaceutical company KaloBios disclosed that an investor group involving Shkreli acquired more than half of the company's outstanding stock and was in discussions to keep the company in operation.

As a result, shares of KaloBios were up more than 600% in premarket trade on Thursday.

Shortly after the market open, the stock was up about 480%. 

The US economy is turning into a nightmare for recruiters

The US economy is turning into a nightmare for recruiters: They just can't find enough qualified people to fill jobs.

In a recent note to clients, Macquarie Research analyst David Doyle cited a survey of HR executives conducted by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) suggesting that firms are having an increasingly difficult time recruiting workers and filling positions.

Both the manufacturing and the services sectors are having a harder time recruiting people today than they did during the credit bubble in the mid-2000s. HR folks are particularly struggling in the services sector, which follows the larger trend of the US services sector outperforming US manufacturing as of late.

Apple is reportedly talking to banks about creating its own competitor to PayPal's Venmo

Apple is in talks with banks in the US about creating its own mobile-to-mobile payments service that sounds a lot like PayPal's Venmo app, according to The Wall Street Journal's Robin Sidel.

PayPal stock was down 1.5% in wake of the news.

The app would reportedly let people send payments to each other directly from their phones, and automatically take them out of their checking accounts on the back end.

While Apple already has its own payments system thanks to Apple Pay, the service so far has been mobile-to-merchant, and the mobile-to-mobile space has largely been dominated by PayPal's Venmo app, which allows for quick and easy payments.

Reviews of the iPad Pro may be lukewarm, but it's still the future of computing

The Apple iPad Pro reviews are in, and they're pretty much all over the place. The general consensus seems to be that it's a fantastic iPad, but a terrible laptop replacement.

That's bad news for the Apple marketing machine, given thatCEO Tim Cook proclaimed earlier this week that the iPad Pro can replace your laptop.

It's probably good news for the Microsoft Surface line of tablet/laptop hybrids.

The fact that the Surface runs a full version of Windows 10 probably makes it the better bet for users looking for a productivity-focused tablet, especially going in to the holiday shopping season.

A BILLION DOLLARS IN EIGHT MINUTES: These insane stats show how crazy China goes for the world's biggest shopping day

Transactions on Alibaba have passed $9 billion (£5.9 billion) in the first 12 hours of Singles Day,passing the mark from last year with half the day still to go.

More than $1 billion (£659 million) was bought within the first eight minutes, and the site saw $3.9 billion (£2.5 billion) in sales in the first hour.

Sales on Singles day in 2014 were $9 billion last year, up from $5.8 billion (£3.8 billion) the day before.

Alibaba alone is expecting to ship 20 million parcels from this years’ sales.

Singles Day is an annual event held on November 11 as a response to Valentines Day. It is billed as a time for a celebration of single life.

China is about to unleash the same policy that blew up the stock market earlier in the year

Yesterday, as has been the case for much of the past few months, Chinese stocks staged another amazing rally.

Led by brokerage firms, the benchmark Shanghai Composite put close to 2%, extending the indice’s recovery from this year’s low to 28%.

The catalyst for the rally was news over the weekend that China’s stock market regulator, the CRSC, will allow the resumption of IPO listings following a ban put in place amidst the stock market rout in mid-June.

10 things you need to know in markets today

Here are the 10 things you need to know in markets you need to know on Monday.

Volkswagen says its staff flagged up the latest emissions faults. The findings, which the Wolfsburg, Germany-based company made public on November 3, were disclosed by employees during an internal investigation, Volkswagen said in a statement on Sunday.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron will warn the EU that he may back a Brexit if Brussels doesn't re-negotiate a new deal with him. Cameron is due to outline British demands for renegotiation of its European Union membership terms in a letter to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk.

Banks Make It Hard for Investors to Deal with Them

 
 Banks have found it difficult to coordinate their product development across product-silos. This led to the creation of a multitude of client interfaces. The significant number of active counterparties that any Buyside firm maintains makes the challenge even more acute (see Figure 3). As many as 75% of the Buyside firms claim that they suffer from ‘data overload’ – they know that all the market information they could need is available, but finding the relevant piece of data for any given task is too taxing to make it worth the effort.
 e-Commerce Priorities of the Buyside Pre-Trade Execution STP Post-Trade Hedge Funds and Alternative Investors 2012 2015 Pre-Trade Execution STP Post-Trade Real Money and Asset Managers 2012 2015 Pre-Trade Execution STP Post-Trade Private Banking and Wealth Management 2012 2015

World's biggest shipping company: Global economic growth is even worse than it looks

The CEO of the biggest shipping company on earth is pretty much as exposed to global growth as anyone gets, and he's got a worrying message for the world.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Moeller-Maersk CEO Nils Smedegaard Andersen suggested that consensus forecasts for global growth are still too strong, despite already being trimmed from more optimistic levels earlier this year.

Just days ago the company announced that it was slashing 4,000 jobs, reporting a major profit slump.

Facebook hits an all-time high after earnings beat

Facebook stock hit an all-time high after-hours after the company reported its Q3 earnings, beating analyst expectations on the top and bottom line.

Here are the most important numbers:

• Revenue: $4.5 billion vs. analyst expectations of $4.37 billion, up 41% year-over-year.
• Adjusted EPS: $0.57 vs. analyst expectations of $0.52.
• MAUs: 1.55 billion monthly active users vs. 1.52 billion expected.

The after-hours stock was up nearly 5% initially, dipped down to +2%, and settled around 4% after the earnings call. At about 107.7, Facebook's stock is at a new all-time high and shares are up roughly 25% since mid-August.

None of the numbers reported in the release were hugely surprising. Its expenses were up 68% year-over-year, but the company had previously said that it plans to invest heavily this year. Also as expected, Facebook saw an increase in the percentage of its revenue coming from mobile.

How to get richer in a year

Bryan Bedder / Stringer / Getty ImagesYou can make progress on your wealth every year.

If you do a lot of reading about building wealth, you'll find a common thread: It takes time. But you can be richer than you are today in as little as a year.

Depending on how you define wealth, being richer a year from today could mean having more time to spend with your family, finding more joy in your day, or having a job that you find financially rewarding and emotionally fulfilling.

But for our purposes, we'll go ahead and define "richer" as "having more money than you have now."

We're not promising Maseratis or second homes in Vail, Colorado, but give these strategies a shot if you want to see your net worth increase in the next 365 days.

WHAT MTN INVESTORS SHOULD BE DOING?

Africa's biggest mobile network MTN was recently fined US$5.2 billion in Nigeria for failing to disconnect unregistered subscribers, CNBC Africa is joined by Philip Short, Investment Analyst, Old Mutual Equities for more.

One of the world's biggest banks still doesn't know where it should be based

When a bank the size of HSBC, which has a $2.6 trillion (£1.7 trillion) balance sheet, looks at moving its headquarters, it creates waves.

The bank said on Monday that its review into where its headquarters should be based was taking longer than it expected,and it probably won't make a decision this year.

Here's what HSBC said (emphasis ours):

Whilst there is a considerable amount of work still to do, a significant amount of work has been carried out, supported by a number of external advisers. In addition, as the review has progressed, further information has been requested by the Board. Whilst the target for completion of the review was initially set as by the end of 2015, this is a self-imposed deadline that can be moved should the Board require further work to be performed.

MTN Agrees To Pay N1.04trn NCC Fine

While pleading for staggered payment model, MTN has finally bowed to pressure as it has accepted to pay the N1.04 trillion fine slammed on it last week by the telecoms regulatory authority, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

Accordingly, the telecoms operator was fine for violating its directive on SIM deactivation.

This follows series of meeting held between MTN management team from South Africa and Nigeria with the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

DISTRESSED INVESTOR: 'We're getting closer'

There's a growing sense on Wall Street that markets are close to the top. 

That's bad news for some investors, but for a certain breed of investor — those that look to make money from assets that are in distress — these are exciting times. 

"What you saw in the third quarter of this year could well have been a harbinger of things to come over the next year or two," Bruce Karsh, CIO and cochairman of Oaktree Capital Group said October 29 after the company reported earnings.