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Russia-Ukraine Crisis

26/05/2022 SFB

METAVERSE, what else?

13/04/2022 SFB

The metaverse is a virtual social sphere whereby it allows users to create their own avatars, personalize them, and perform activities that they do in real life. Facebook is transforming itself into Meta because they are ready to create a virtual social sphere focusing entirely on digital interactions. Apart from Facebook, there are also companies such as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Epic Games that are preparing technologies and apps to promote Virtual Reality. Metaverse can be thought as a future iteration of the internet as it will allow users to meet, work, play game, and socialize together in these 3D spaces.

Emerging market report

30/11/2021 SFB

Since their introduction in the early 2000s, emerging markets have remained a popular investment area. As a result, a number of new funds and tools for investing in emerging markets have been introduced. Emerging markets are a unique investment opportunity because they offer equal parts of risk and reward. While there are huge gains awaiting investors that can identify the right emerging market investment at the right time, the risks involved are sometimes not well understood.

Investment report Q3 2021

30/09/2021 SFB

The last few days of the third quarter had a substantial impact on quarterly index returns. For the majority of the third quarter, the Nasdaq had solidly outperformed both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average as investors continued a trend from the second quarter by moving to less economically sensitive large-cap tech shares. However, during the last week of the quarter, as global bond yields rose, there was heavy selling in tech shares as investors rotated into other market sectors.

THE IMPACTS OF COVID-19 ON THE ECONOMY AND INFLATION FOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

11/08/2021 SFB

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a severe global recession with differential impacts within and across countries.

Où va l’Espagne ?

28/09/2020 P. Ferro

Ce pays de l'Europe du Sud avec ses 47 millions d'habitants et ses 17 régions autonomes est frappé de plein fouet par la pandémie du Covid-19, avec plus de 640'000 cas dont plus de 30'000 décès.