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Explain the HSI - why do markets sometimes appear in sync and other times not?
Can someone please explain this to me: in 2006, HSI moved almost identical like indexes on the New York Stock Exchange. However, the crisis period (2007-2011) shows the deviation from the others.
My ...
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Is it safe to put pin of debit card in worldpay?
I am buying from proxybonanza.com that accept worldpay.
Then I go to this screen:
Looks like they managed to figure out that the bank is USbank without me having to tell them. In fact, they know ...
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Are bank account numbers unique?
If somebody sends me money and I write the swift code wrong, will the money go somewhere else?
I know bank account numbers are unique within a bank, but will are they unique globally?
Update: I ...
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Is there such a thing as “over diversification”?
I went to an investment advisor today, and asked him his opinion about splitting my foreign (non NIS/Israei) investments between VTI and VEU.
He said that he thinks it's "too diversified", and ...
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Is an open-sourced World Stock Index a pipe-dream?
I have noticed that many things in finance are closed or proprietary like MSCI Barra World (an index that tracks stocks globally). I sense that there may be a huge amount of work to do with such index ...
