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A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is pushing for a ban on active trading by members of Congress following accusations that some of their colleagues may have engaged in insider trading.
Machine learning is based on analysing huge data sets and finding patterns in them, yet isn’t used much in financial market decisions.
Investors dumped assets en masse as news of the new COVID variant spread.
A new study using music streaming data to measure national mood underlines how much stock markets are governed by emotion rather than rational calculation.
Decentralized finance makes it easier for virtually anyone to take advantage of financial markets without the need for a bank, but there are new risks as well.
Until the late 1800s, moments of widespread high-risk financial gambling weren’t considered manias but the results of individual actors, who bore responsibility for the disastrous results.
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Market prices are supposed to reflect a company’s fundamental value. When they no longer do, bad things can happen.
WallStreetBets is now reshaping financial markets: Non-professional market participants, or retail investors, are doing the work traditionally performed by financial advisers and analysts.
Some markets suggest a swift economic recovery from coronavirus. Others are less optimistic.
The contrast between the real economy and the stock market is striking. How long will it last?
Shutting down the stock market would be like closing our eyes and shooting the messenger.
Regulators, in their attempts to level the playing field for all investors, should not exclusively view high-frequency traders as market destabilizers.
With a global recession looking increasingly likely, a finance scholar offers guidance on how to ride it out.
An economist explains how a virus like COVID-19 could disrupt the US economy – and why it’s too soon to freak out just yet.
A growing number of investors, policymakers and others say the US economy may be at risk of spiraling downward. A finance professor explains how to ride it out.
Rating agencies continue to be found wanting, primarily because of their business model where the institution being rated pays. This brings about a conflict of interest which is not easy to resolve.
With the launch of the Libra cryptocurrency, Mark Zuckerberg reveals his dreams of building a new virtual country, perhaps inspired by the Roman Empire.
There is no need for Canadians to play catch-up on sustainable finance. We can lead.
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Professor of Finance and Fred T. Tattersall Excellence in Finance Research Chair, West Virginia University
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Professor in Finance, University of Stirling
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Otago
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Professor of Finance, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Otago
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Associate Professor of Economics, Skidmore College
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retired, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, (currently Vice-Chancellor at MILA University, Malaysia), University of Nottingham
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia
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Associate Professor in Property and Real Estate, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Finance, Queen Mary University of London