Asian markets did not change much in early trading on Friday, after shares fell on Wall Street when the stalemate over a second coronavirus relief plan continued on Capitol Hill. Japanese Nikkei 225 NIK, + 0.06% was almost flay, while Hong Seng’s Hang Seng Index HSI, -0.05% 0.2% glide. The …
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Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself, but often rhymes.” Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research, applies those words to what, for most observers, should feel like a unique climate for playing the market these days. But that is not necessarily the case, according to Yardeni. …
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