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Why Is the Stock Market So Strong When the Economy Is Weak?
The continuing strength of the stock market even as the coronavirus pandemic batters the U.S. economy has baffled many observers. The Dow...
Aug 31, 2020


How Firms Use Pre-IPO Confidentiality to Fend Off Lawsuits
A well-intentioned feature of U.S. law helps firms planning initial public offerings (IPOs) maintain confidentiality on their regulatory...
Aug 24, 2020


How Fixed-income Portfolios Match or Beat Stocks in the Long Run
Fixed-income portfolios have performed as well, if not better, than the U.S. stock market in the past five decades, while exhibiting...
Aug 12, 2020


Could Quantitative Finance Help Avert Future Market Crashes?
The Dow shed 37% in less than six weeks after mid-February as the severity of the coronavirus pandemic sank in. It has since recovered...
Jul 2, 2020


Oil Price Shock: What It Means for Producers and Consumers
With drastic declines in consumer demand, the coronavirus pandemic has created a difficult new world for the oil industry. On April 20,...
Apr 28, 2020


Tesla’s Stock Electrified the Market and Shorted Out…Now What?
Tesla, the electric vehicle company based in Palo Alto, Calif., has recently witnessed dramatic volatility in its stock price. The...
Feb 15, 2020


What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About VCs
Sand Hill Road is as well-known an address to business people as Rodeo Drive, Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. This arterial road in...
Aug 29, 2019


Data Analytics Is (Slowly) Transforming Private Equity
Data analytics is one of the hottest areas in business these days. Companies are increasingly adopting it to transform human resources,...
Jul 8, 2019


White Hot: How Silver Forged the World’s Economy
Silver may play second fiddle to gold, its flashier, more expensive cousin. But the white metal has commanded a leading role in shaping...
May 8, 2019


Is the World Economy Headed for a Fall?
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has once again cut its global growth forecast for 2019. In its new semi-annual World Economic...
Apr 19, 2019
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