Tag: Financial markets
What is insider trading? Two finance experts explain why it matters...
Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College
Insider trading is the term used to describe the...
How bonds work and why everyone is talking about them right...
The Bank of England is buying bonds again. Just as it was about to start selling the debt it had accumulated as...
Five things that economists know, but sound wrong to most other...
Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University
Economists have shaped the modern world in many ways. Governments make policy choices in response...
What’s insider trading and why it’s a big problem
Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College
There’s a growing bipartisan push to prohibit members of...
Mood, music and money: what our Spotify playlists reveal about the...
Ivan Indriawan, Auckland University of Technology; Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Auckland University of Technology; Alexandre Garel, Audencia, and Alex Edmans, London Business School
Why April was Wall Street’s best month in decades – despite...
Kim Kaivanto, Lancaster University
At times the contrast between the real economy and the stock market is striking. For US stocks, April was their best...
How to invest if you’re worried a recession is coming
Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University
Although the U.S. economy continues to grow and add jobs, talk of a recession is increasingly in the air due...
What’s an index fund?
Jordan Schoenfeld, Georgetown University
The creation of the index fund in 1975 revolutionized investing, lowering costs for millions of ordinary investors.
Their inventor John Bogle died...