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.
While investors digest the latest retail quarterly earnings reports that are out this morning, their growing focus for today will be on the release of the minutes from the April Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting, looking for any hints concerning a rate hike.
The Nigerian Stock Exchange recently concluded its demutualization process, creating a new holding company and moving toward its vision of becoming Africa’s leading capital market infrastructure provider.
One of the great Bitcoin secrets has long been the amount "mined” from dirty coal. This has become an international debate when Tesla boss Elon Musk abruptly stopped accepting bitcoin as a payment for the company’s cars
Investment success may come down to what an individual puts into the process — both on a monetary level and an attention level. While various types of investment strategies exist, two methods help guide those ventures: active investing and passive investing.