STE's Stocks Investing Journey

Market has been in a much more volatile situation in 2018 as compare to 2017 and the latest political & economic issues face by Italy is making the market looks riskier. Italy has been a problematic state among EU countries for many years. It ranks among the countries with the largest debt—around 2.3 trillion euros—and has been facing a double-digit unemployment rate since 2012. Italy could be the next Greece — only much worse from CNBC.com Growing tension in the Korean Peninsula and the potential trade war between US-China and US – Europe, no doubt has contributed to recent market volatility.

image credit to fatpitchfinancials.com What is a 'Special Situation' Investing? You may or may not hear about this before but below shall give you some clue or a clearer definition : Time to explain : From Wikipedia : A special situation   in finance is an event turning business to go not as usual and materially impact a company's value. The notion covers   restructuring   of a company and corporate transactions such as   spin-offs ,   share repurchases ,   security   issuance/ repurchase , asset sales, or other catalyst-oriented situations. A conflict of shareholders is also considered a special situation. To take advantage of special situations, a hedge fund manager must identify an upcoming event that will increase or decrease the value of the company's equity and equity-related instruments.