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Historically, tech stocks have dominated global stock markets. Despite the pandemic, many continue to grow at remarkable rate.
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1955.
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Market prices are supposed to reflect a company’s fundamental value. When they no longer do, bad things can happen.
A street sign is displayed at the New York Stock Exchange in New York.
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WallStreetBets is now reshaping financial markets: Non-professional market participants, or retail investors, are doing the work traditionally performed by financial advisers and analysts.
We’re not going away.
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Now that Gen Z has got a taste for financial trading, the whole game has changed.
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A small band of Reddit users have driven GameStop shares to incredible highs at the expense of multi-billion-dollar hedge funds.
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With a rising stock market and a booming economy in some industries, not all Americans have been negatively impacted by Covid-19. Which parts of the population have come out on top?
An Otis escalator in Norrköping, Sweden. The company was spun off by its former parent, United Technologies, in 2020.
New research published in Long Range Planning provides insights on how a spin-off’s status and attachment to its former parent influence its risk-taking.
Attendees at an event for Donald Trump on August 17, 2020.
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Six months into the Covid-19 crisis, the president is boasting that the US economy is back on its feet. While the figures show that some job losses have been cut, there is little room for optimism.
Worth shouting about?
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There isn’t much political capital in celebrating stock market gains if the real economy is still hurting.
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In times of trouble people still turn to gold. What makes it a safe haven? Largely perceptions, based on its historical mystique.
One month after the beginning of the crisis, the CAC40 lost 39% of its value.
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Financial theory shows that the dividend is economically neutral, although it helps to reassure the shareholder psychologically.
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Apple is now worth more than the entire FTSE 100. It says as much about the UK’s premier stock index as it does about American tech.
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The real story of the South Sea Bubble and what happened when it burst 300 years ago.
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Chief executives have moved on from buying while spreading bad news. They’re buying while spreading uncertainty.
Normally stock markets tell us a lot about the economy. In 2020 that’s no longer the case.
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While institutional investors are selling stocks, retail investors are buying. They may not understand the risks.
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The rush of ‘amateur’ investors into the stock market has regulators worried. Maybe they shouldn’t.
Throwing cash at the problem seems to help – investors at least.
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US stocks have nearly erased much of their coronavirus losses even as many Americans continue to suffer from the pandemic’s impact.
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Research into life on the trading floor reveals the importance of being in the room for things to run smoothly.
It’s a bull market – for now.
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The contrast between the real economy and the stock market is striking. How long will it last?