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In giving Dodd-Frank the Botox treatment, Congress misses the point of what’s wrong with financial regulation: It’s an old mess.
A recent study suggests that divesting in fossil fuels not only allows investors to address their climate change concerns, it also reduces financial risks and increases financial returns.
The stock market is littered with metaphors made by and for men, so it’s no wonder women don’t feel as comfortable in investing.
While many market observers blame the growing threat of inflation for the stock market crash, the real culprit may be concerns that the economy is about to slow.
Markets follow a mix of economic reasoning, human emotion and out-of-control algorithms.
The Dow Jones is on a rollercoaster. But don’t panic.
An economist explains why the Dow Jones industrial average’s biggest-ever one-day drop shouldn’t bother you too much.
Volatility indexes show that investors have been complacent about the risk of a share market correction.
The record level of the price-to-earnings ratio for equities is increasingly worrying. But how do we determine whether the price of a stock – or an exchange – is valued at its fair price or overvalued?
New research reveals a happy work force is likely to increase a business’s profitability.
While every other social media platform seeks to tie users in through content-rich profiles, the transient nature of Snaps means the company needs to find a new hook.
The finance industry has developed a powerful set of tools over the years, which could be used to improve well-being and solve our environmental problems.
New research suggests mini-crashes, in which the price of a single stock or commodity temporarily goes haywire, may be unstoppable.
It hasn’t been a good round of earnings for Silicon Valley’s big names.
We all miss out when corporates keep themselves to themselves.
Together, three asset managers now control shares in 40% of all publicly listed firms in the United States.
Instead, we need to burn the entire system of financial regulation to the ground and replace it with something that supports investing the way it’s done today.
A new way of encouraging people to seek out unused information could improve collective decision making.
The soaring cost of housing has helped make capital ownership more profitable than work.
As the New York Stock Exchange marks 200 years since its official formation, investors are wondering whether the surging stock market is a ‘Trump bump’ or more like a lemon.


















