CEOs and founders at Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Walmart (WMT), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Meta (FB) have all sold billions of dollars’ worth of stock recently. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily, and here's why.
Facebook's name change to Meta certainly caused a stir when it was announced in October, but in light of an inflation-driven tech stock sell-off on Wall Street, it seems that the move has already helped to protect the company’s market cap.
With the largest IPO in the U.S. by proceeds raised, the largest direct listing in Nasdaq history and the largest global ex-U.S. combination in history, Nasdaq had a record-breaking year, with a record 743 initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2021, raising a total of $180 billion.
As we prepare to enter one of the seasonally slowest times of the year, investors continue to grapple with the evolving omicron landscape and renewed efforts to contain it.
One thing seems certain: There is potential for more uncertainty in 2022. That, in turn, could mean periods of volatility in bond and stock markets, which has historically been good for traders and liquidity.
Developing new cancer drugs is a difficult prospect. According to the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, less than 8% of cancer drugs that enter phase 1 clinical trials for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval actually make it to market.
This time of year, many of us are pulling out our wallets more frequently, but increasingly that wallet is digital. Here, we are going to look at the rapid pace of innovation in payments as new technologies are making payments faster, cheaper, less intrusive, and safer.
One might think that a market that has been handed so much cash for so long would react badly to the idea of ending the liquidity infusions, but early indications are that the opposite is true.
More than 300,000 people are currently classified as “personal financial advisors” in the US, and that number will likely surpass 400,000 within a couple years. It can be hard to stand out in such a large (and rapidly growing) crowd.
Once again, Fed Chair Powell and the Fed delivered as expected yesterday, exiting the latest monetary policy by announcing it would accelerate the pace of its bond tapering program and increased the likelihood of three interest rate hikes in 2022.
Now is the time to act. Crypto and its underpinning blockchain systems are no longer a peripheral technology but the foundations of a new, decentralized future.
Metaverse is the next big thing to disrupt our daily lives because it allows individuals to imagine a future in which our physical presence will no longer be required
As investors increasingly focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG), Nasdaq’s Ahad Minhas organized and moderated an internal fireside chat to discuss trending topics in ESG investing with ESG strategists at Sustainable Market Strategies.