The current high growth & adoption of financial applications can be traced back to the arrival of cloud storage in 2006. The big idea was the creation of a simple, scalable, service that could easily plug into existing software. The world of DeFi will mirror this trajectory.
Scott Shechtman, head of New Markets at Nasdaq, shares his views on how well-functioning markets contribute to the greater good, how the cloud makes it easier to turn a good idea into a functioning market, and how Nasdaq’s technology brings new markets to life.
We are on the cusp of technology breakthroughs that will make the advances in this area go asymptotic, and with that, the opportunities will also be unprecedented. Investors will want to keep a close eye on this area.
It is what we have come to expect from the market these days. We are living in a bizarro world, where up is down, where good news is bad, and where pricing and reality are completely unrelated. Or are they?
The boardroom shakeup at Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) and the stock market frenzy around AMC Entertainment Holdings’ (AMC) don’t seem related, but there is a common thread tying them together.
Following the week’s economic data that included May Manufacturing and Services PMI data, investors will once again be looking for clues as to what the Fed may be thinking
Right now, the market is much more concerned about inflation data than any political arguments about the nature of unemployment, and therefore are looking at productivity and cost numbers rather than the notoriously fickle weekly claims.
For the first time in its history, Nasdaq was named to the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest companies by revenue, joining an esteemed list of public and private companies whose combined revenue represented two-thirds of the U.S. economy in 2020.
We take a quick look at how large, small and microcap companies contribute to the total market cap and liquidity that makes the U.S. markets the envy of the world.