This article was co-authored by Dr Mehrzad Mahdavi and Hossein Kazemi, Phd, CFA from FDP Institute, and William J. Kelly from CAIA Association Digital transformation, with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies at its core, has created unprecedented challenges and opportunities across all industries. The financial sector will be…
Vulture funds want to change Argentina’s debt structure. We need to stop them from setting a dangerous precedent In the wake of Covid-19, there is an urgent need for sovereign debt restructuring, including debt relief. In the circumstances caused by the pandemic, many countries’ repayment obligations could have devastating social consequences if they are not adjusted. Financial markets face…
The more things change the more they remain the same, via Bloomie: Faced with the prospect of restricted access to U.S. dollars, China’s answer is to get more people to use its own currency instead. The increasing spillover of Sino-American tensions into the financial sphere has ignited a fresh push by China to promote the The post Can China internationalise the yuan? Yawn appeared first on…
Amid economic recession and uncertainty over China's National Security Law, global real estate firms are trying to get Hong Kong residents to buy abroad.
A surge in virus cases and record fatalities in several US states dampened the animal spirits at the end of last week. However, few seem emotionally or materially prepared to resist the official efforts to generate favorable financial conditions to facilitate an economic recovery. Most seem to be expecting more policy support to be forthcoming. The bearish technical case…
If we learn anything from the recent market volatility, it is that in unprecedented times like this, companies with superior governance, risk management, and accountability will have a higher chance of survival and outperformance.
In the wake of COVID-19, gold has soared in popularity as an investment asset. But what about silver? Energy and Capital editor Luke Burgess compares gold and silver to one another, a comparison many feel is akin to apples and oranges...
Two experimental coronavirus vaccines by German biotech firm BioNTech and U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 'fast track' designation, the companies said on Monday.
Are you wearing any of these brands? boohooMAN, PrettyLittleThing, Nasty Gal MissPap. Karen Millen, Oasis Warehouse. Probably not – Boohoo targets the 16-24 year old fashion market and is principally bought by young women. Happily young people have better things … Continue reading →
As coronavirus surges nationwide, the White House aims to discredit health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci. The infectious disease expert said, in January, the coronavirus was "not a major threat" and "not driven by asymptomatic carriers."
Q&A with Monument Group's Janet Brooks: PE fundraising during the pandemic
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Monument Group, one of the world’s most renowned placement agents, completed two high profile fund closures last week: Charlesbank Credit Opportunity Fund II closed at its hard cap of USD700…
One interesting thing about this episode is that we have seen the Pension Regulator’s preferred view ahead of the final legislation itself. Their usual defense of ”It’s the law that Parliament decided, and we are only implementing … Continue reading →
Scientists have been trying for years to harvest energy from the movement and impact of water droplets and other sources of mechanical energy. Researchers from the University of Twente and South China Normal University said this week that they had managed to design and test a generator of electricity using the movement of water droplets and other mechanical energy. The new approach…
Every year around this time, we check in with raw materials for our popular commodities halftime report. This year, it wasn’t even a competition. Precious metals were the big winners for the first six months of 2020. Spot gold took the first place position, rising over 17 percent, followed in second place by silver, up nearly 2 percent. Palladium rounded out the top three, essentially flat at…
US stocks slid on Monday, erasing earlier gains, as the governor of California announced closures of bars and indoor dining, spurring worries around economic reopening nationwide.
The S&P 500 jumped as much as 1.6% and briefly erased its year-to-date losses before turning negative in the afternoon.
Pfizer and BioNTech gained jumped after two of the firms' COVID…
Gold prices have climbed to their highest levels in nearly nine years, with the precious metal seen as a ‘weapon of choice’ for investors dealing with pandemic-related uncertainty in the stock market, clearing the path to a fresh record in the second half of the year.
This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Friday, 07/10/2020. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers! Testing expectations [OSM] In our last post, we analyzed the performance of our portfolio, built using the historical average method to set return expectations. We calculated return and risk contributions […] The post Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 07/…
This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Thursday, 07/09/2020. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers! March for the Fallen 2020: Sign-Up for The Virtual Version! [Alpha Architect] We are going to help make March for the Fallen a virtual event this year (September 26, 2020 […] The post Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 07/09/2020 appeared first on…
Threats to oil shipping routes are nothing new to the oil market. It has endured Iran seizing tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, and it has endured Iran's repeated threats to close this most important chokepoint in the world. But what the oil market is perhaps not prepared to shrug off are similar threats made by one of the world's largest oil consumers--India--to choke off the oil that is…