09-27-2015, 03:11 AM
Volkswagen’s very survival may now be on the line. That’s because the huge legal fines the automobile giant faces because of its emissions cheating scandal could be just the tip of the iceberg. One academic study of the average company involved in fraud, for example, found that the financial punishment imposed by the market was 7.5 times greater than its legal penalties.
Volkswagen scandal may put car maker’s survival on the line - MarketWatch
The scandal surrounding Volkswagen's emissions data has raised fears that damage may not be limited to the automaker. There could be another casualty: Germany's hard-won reputation for reliability, efficiency and trustworthiness is at stake.
VW scandal: Germany’s reputation on the line
America doesn’t run on Dunkin', it runs on drugs. Just look at the best-performing exchange-traded funds of the past decade. Topping them all, in any sector, industry, or country, is the PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals Portfolio (PJP), up 420 percent over the past 10 years. A pair of biotech ETFs are a distant second and third. Here are the leading ETFs, their 10-year returns, and their total assets in millions of dollars.
This Is the Best ETF of the Past 10 Years - Bloomberg Business
With PCI-Express 3.0 x4 and NVMe support, the 950 Pro SSD outperforms traditional SATA SSD drives by almost 400% in some applications. The 512GB version delivers read/write speeds of up to 2,500MB/sec and 1,500MB/sec, with random read performance hitting up to 300,000 IOPS and write speeds of 110,000 IOPS. Samsung has put security and longevity at the forefront of the 950 Pro SSD, with AES 256-bit Full Disk Encryption to protect data and Dynamic Thermal Guard incorporated to protect the drive at temperatures ranging from 0 to 70 degrees Celsius.
Samsung launches NVMe M.2 950 PRO SSD for the masses
But as we have noted previously with the S&P 500 having lost 80% of its value relative to Treasuries over the last 15 years (and even more so for the DAX and the Nikkei relative to their domestic bond markets) there is an argument that we are approaching the end, not the beginning of a dark period for stocks relative to bonds, and that we should be wary of reinventing the deflationary ghosts of the past decade.