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Insider Trading: Navigating the Gray Areas and Legal Boundaries
Insider trading comes in two main forms: arguably legal and clearly illegal. But, as with drugs in sport, it’s hard to tell when arguably legal ends and clear
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The South Sea Bubble: Unpacking the 1720 Financial Crisis
Coronavirus has caused a great deal of stock market turbulence and, somewhat inevitably, comparisons have been made to the volatility caused by t
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FTSE 100 Performance: A Closer Look at Long-Term Returns
Apple has become the first company worth US$2 trillion (£1.7 trillion), meaning that it is now more valuable than all the companies in the FTSE 100 (they add up
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Dividends & Wealth: Understanding How Shareholders Actually Benefit
On March 24, France’s minister of the economy and finance, Bruno Le Maire, urged the country’s firms to exercise the utmost restraint in paying d
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Gold as a Safe Haven: Understanding Its Enduring Appeal During Crises
“Gold” said famed investor Warren Buffett in 1998, “gets dug out of the ground in Africa or someplace, then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and
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Beyond the Market: Why Presidential Campaigns Shouldn't Focus on Stock Performance
While Donald Trump’s positive test for COVID-19 provoked volatility on US stock markets, they remain only a few percentage points down from the a
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Pandemic Wealth Disparity: Did Some Americans Thrive During COVID-19?
Last December, the New York Times published an op-ed titled “The People Who Actually Had a Pretty Great Year”, discussing the Americans who haven
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GameStop Short Squeeze: How Retail Investors Challenged Hedge Funds & What's Next
How does a small retail company that sells video games, worth less than US$400 million in the middle of 2020, become a US$10 billion company in less than six mo
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WallStreetBets Insider: Why the Retail Trading Revolution is Just Beginning
I joined the WallStreetBets forum on Reddit almost two years ago. But I was far from the image of the typical “bored, young Reddit trader” that h
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WallStreetBets: How Reddit is Reshaping Financial Markets
If the financial world follows the pattern seen a decade or so ago in other markets, such as fashion and music, Reddit’s WallStreetBets (r/wallstreetbets) pheno
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GameStop Crash: Why Market Corrections Are Vital for Economic Stability
Shares of GameStop and other companies or assets that shot up in value in recent weeks are now dropping like stones. While I feel sorry for the many investors w
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Ethical Tech Investing: 5 Tips for Socially Responsible Stock Choices
These days people trading on the stock market want more than just a strong financial return. They’re increasingly opting for investments that will also have a p
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Understanding IPOs: What Bumble's Offering Means for Investors
Bumble raised US$2.15 billion in an initial public offering, or IPO, late on Feb. 10, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Investors swooned over the women-go-firs
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The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Stock Trading Performance: New Research
Do financial traders make better returns in the stock market when they are well rested? You would intuitively assume that a trader’s level of sle
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Global Bond Market Crisis: Understanding the Impact on Inequality
The global market in government bonds has been bleeding red lately. “Bond market screams for help but no one answers”, says Bloomberg. It is “the
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Understanding Derivatives: Swaps, Options & Their Role in Modern Finance
One of the biggest trends in economics over the past 40 years has been so-called “financialisation” – whereby an increasing proportion of GDP in advanced econom
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Financial Manias: A History of Speculation from Tulips to Memes
In the late 1990s, America experienced a dot-com mania. In the 2000s, the housing market went wild. Today, there are manias in everything from bitcoin and non
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The Decline of IPOs: Why Fewer Companies Are Going Public and What It Means for the Economy
Stock markets in Canada and the United States are booming right now. So why do so few companies want to join them? With the exception of a couple of bad years
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ASIC's Crackdown on Activist Short Selling: Implications for Investors
The Australian Securities & Investment Commission issued an information sheet this week regarding so-called “activist short selling”. The document outline
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Emotional Investing: How Music & Mood Influence Financial Markets
We like to think our purchase decisions are based on rational calculations and facts, but we know they are often driven by emotions, too. When we splurge on nic
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Understanding Shadow Banking: Origins, Impact & Role in the EconomyThe term “shadow banking” often has connotations of dodgy lending and borrowing practices, out of reach of regulators. And while its use may cont...
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LIFO Reserve Explained: Understanding Inventory ValuationA LIFO reserve acts as a contra account, meaning it’s a ledger account used for inventoryInventoryInventory is a current asset account found on the balance sheet, consisting of all raw mate...
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Excel Inventory Management: 7 Essential Tips & Free Template_______________________________________________________________________ Inventory management is t2e operational backbone of any business with a product to sell. If you are just starting out with a sm...