In the second week of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), Nasdaq’s Bjorn Sibbern, President of European Markets, offered key insights on the financial sector’s role in the fight against climate change.
Weighing on equities is the resurgence in Covid-19 as Austria became the first country in Europe to reimpose a full coronavirus lockdown, stepping up its restrictive actions for only unvaccinated citizens.
Trading in U.S. stocks has increased over the past two years, with volumes now consistently above 10 billion shares a day. Data shows that retail has become a more significant participant in the market (especially for some stocks).
As the race to launch and popularize various forms of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) accelerates, the investment firm VanEck has now successfully launched the third such product and it has already begun to see promising results.
In a move to help ease global energy prices (and by extension, inflation pressures), the Biden administration has reportedly reached out to various countries including China, India, South Korea, and Japan to release some part of their strategic reserves.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created major supply chain disruptions across the world, mainly impacting semiconductor companies and industries that are reliant on microchips, such as automobile and consumer electronics.
Over the last 18 months, investor relations (IR) professionals have had to dramatically rethink their approach to investor engagement. While the goals have stayed the same, the methods have had to adapt to the virtual environment we all now operate in.
Lee Atwater, a controversial Republican political strategist who died young in 1991 and had a habit of saying out loud what others would prefer to keep quiet, once said that "perception is reality."
As the markets digest the strong consumer spending numbers announced yesterday, there is a dawning realization that these numbers are boosted slightly by inflation.