The finance community has invested much effort to identify new factors that may indicate a security’s forward-looking performance or a portfolio’s risk attributes. While this research can help us better understand asset pricing and offer the possibility of better performance, too often it presumes continuous markets, free trading, and boundless liquidity. Far less research has focused on the practitioner’s dilemma: implementation shortfalls caused by frictions like trading costs and discontinuous trading. These real-life frictions can erode the performance of smart beta and factor strategies. Along with asset management fees, they are the main sources of the sometimes-vast gap between live…
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Die September-Euphorie am Krypto-Markt ist verflogen, die Währungen zeigen sich wieder schwächer. Dabei sprechen niedrigere Zinsen, die Etablierung der Anlageklasse und die Saisonalität für die Coins, wie viele meinen.10. Oktober 2024. FRANKFURT (Börse Frankfurt). Nach dem kräftigen Anstieg von Bitcoin & Co. im September hat der Oktober für etwas Ernüchterung in der Krypto-Szene gesorgt. „Aufgrund der Eskalation der geopolitischen Spannungen im Nahen Osten kam es zu einem vorläufigen Ende des Aufschwungs“, berichtet André Dragosch von der ETC Group. Dazu kommen Spekulationen, dass die US-Regierung knapp 70.000 Bitcoins verkaufen könnte, die beim Betreiber des Darkweb-Marktplatzes Silk Road beschlagnahmt wurden. Der Verkauf von…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike DolanWith U.S. stocks at new records and devastating Hurricane Milton now weakening as it passes over Florida, the shifting U.S. interest rate horizon is back in focus with September’s key inflation update due on Thursday.Despite the stormy weather and Middle East anxiety, U.S. economic soundings remain robust and Federal Reserve easing expectations continue to be dialled back – sending the dollar to near two month highs in the process.With the U.S. economy estimated to be still expanding at more than 3%, markets now seeing little more than…
Image source: Getty Images The performance of the S&P 500 in the last five years has been nothing short of stunning. If I’d put every penny of £10,000 in a tracker fund back in 2019, I’d now have somewhere around £19,500. Throwing the same amount at the FTSE 100 would have left me with about £11,350. Even though I’m not taking into account dividends or fees here, that’s still an almighty difference. But since we know what goes up can always come down, would it be madness for me to be stay bullish on the US index today? Is the…
In the vicinity of Manila, a coal-fired power plant hopes to become a model for developing countries striving to abandon this polluting fossil fuel. An alliance led by the Rockefeller Foundation, a philanthropic group, plans to help close this plant ten years earlier than scheduled, avoiding millions of tons of emissions by monetizing them as carbon credits. “The idea is ‘pretty simple’,” explains Joseph Curtin, general director of Rockefeller’s energy and climate team, to AFP. “What if, instead of selling this high-carbon energy to the electrical grid, the coal owner could sell the avoided carbon emissions?” Essentially, carbon credits allow…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With U.S. stocks at new records and devastating Hurricane Milton now weakening as it passes over Florida, the shifting U.S. interest rate horizon is back in focus with September’s key inflation update due on Thursday. Despite the stormy weather and Middle East anxiety, U.S. economic soundings remain robust and Federal Reserve easing expectations continue to be dialled back – sending the dollar to near two month highs in the process. With the U.S. economy estimated to be still expanding at more than 3%, markets now seeing…
(This is CNBC Pro’s live coverage of Thursday’s analyst calls and Wall Street chatter. Please refresh every 20-30 minutes to view the latest posts.) A pharmacy operator and an industrial stock were among the stocks being talked by analysts on Thursday. Barclays upgraded CVS to overweight from equal weight, calling for 24% upside. Meanwhile, JPMorgan lowered its rating on Honeywell International to neutral from overweight. Check out the latest calls and chatter below. All times ET. 5:50 a.m.: Barclays upgrades CVS, sees 24% upside Barclays sees significant upside ahead for shares of CVS . The bank upgraded the pharmaceutical stock…
Image source: Getty Images The GSK (LSE: GSK) share price is back in play jumping 6.63% at time of writing after shrugging off a huge shadow that’s been hanging over its prospects for months. This is great news for me because I bought shares in the FTSE 100 pharmaceutical giant in April. I thought of it as a long-term defensive buy-and-hold, only to find myself nursing a double-digit loss triggered by legal issues. Its blockbuster heartburn drug Zantac was pulled from sale in the US in 2019, following claims that it contained “unacceptable levels” of probable cancer-causing ingredients. GSK has…
By Anne Kauranen and Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Nordic utility Fortum faces cyberattacks on a daily basis in Finland and Sweden and has sometimes spotted drones and suspicious individuals near its sites, its CEO told Reuters, adding the company had asked the authorities to investigate. Security services in Finland and Sweden declined to comment on specific incidents, but both have alleged a pick up in malicious activities by Russia in recent years. Russia’s foreign ministry or embassy in Helsinki did not immediately reply to a written request for comment. Finland and Sweden angered eastern neighbour Russia by joining the Western…
(Bloomberg) — China’s central bank has set up a swap facility to provide liquidity to institutional investors to buy stocks, part of a broad stimulus package announced earlier that ignited a rally in equities.Most Read from BloombergThe People’s Bank of China will accept applications from eligible securities firms, funds and insurers starting Thursday to obtain highly liquid assets such as government bonds and central bank bills if they provide certain collateral. The size of the tool is 500 billion yuan ($70.6 billion) and can be expanded in the future, the monetary authority said in a statement.PBOC Governor Pan Gongsheng unveiled…