To put it plainly, food waste is an ecological and economic disaster. It wreaks havoc on grocery business profits and burps some 3.3 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year.
Later this morning, investors will be poring over the U.S. Flash PMI manufacturing and services data for May. Depending on what we see, inflation concerns could once again become the driver of the market’s performance as we close out the week.
While economic measures such as GDP or GDP per capita do not directly depict quality of life or the wellness of the people, they are an important measure to gauge broader trends, and apply in deeper analysis when making investing decisions.
With 9,000+ cryptocurrencies on the market, appropriate diversification and subsequent asset management can be an extremely time-consuming undertaking, particularly with the rise of the DeFi sector.
There is the persistent narrative that the Securities Information Processor (SIP) is a dysfunctional public road, costing investors much more than the proprietary autobahns fast traders get to use. For most investors, that’s not true.
Financial advisors have long had a love-hate relationship with annuities. Some advisors love them and use them regularly with clients, while others hate them and cringe when they are suggested.
If extreme volatility was limited to bitcoin, none of it would matter to regular investors who hold stocks and bonds, and whose idea of an “alternative” investment is a REIT. However, it wasn’t.
Following the revelations contained in yesterday’s latest FOMC meeting minutes, we expect today’s weekly jobless claims report and tomorrow’s Flash May PMI data will be of keen interest to investors and dictate how equities finish the week.
The global reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, a partner to Nasdaq and user of the Nasdaq Risk Modelling for Catastrophes service, continuously develops new catastrophe risk models. Mark Weatherhead, head of Model Development, talks about their approach to risk modelling.
As the economy of the Central European nation of Hungary has been buffeted by the coronavirus pandemic, it is attempting to entice economic investment by means of a major tax cut on bitcoin.
The past 14 months disrupted markets in a way that has not been seen since the 2008 financial crisis. In the fallout, energy firms were faced with high volatility – and in some cases complete disruption – testing their technology stacks and their risk controls at their core
Both showed a big beat of analysts’ expectations on both earnings and revenue. And yet, in pre-market trading, one stock is around three percent higher than yesterday’s close, while the other is three percent lower. Why is that?
Vikas Shah, managing director of FinTech Investment Banking, and Dushyant “D” Shahrawat, director of FinTech Investment Banking, both at Rosenblatt Securities, discuss how a wave of untraditional marketplaces is ushering in new investment opportunities.