Markets & FinanceIt sounds almost too outlandish to be true, a punchline rather than a serious market observation: Pokémon cards are currently outperforming nearly every traditional asset class, delivering eye-popping...
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · September 10, 2025
Markets & FinanceIt seems Robinhood, the brokerage that famously democratized trading for a new generation and became synonymous with the "meme stock" phenomenon, is leaning even further into its digital-native DNA. T...
By Theo Bodden · 3 min read · September 10, 2025
Markets & FinanceThe financial markets wrapped up the day on a decidedly high note, with all three major U.S. stock indexes — the Dow industrials, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq Composite — notching fresh record closes. ...
By Sarah Chen · 2 min read · September 9, 2025
Markets & FinanceWell, this is certainly the kind of headline that makes you do a double-take over your morning coffee. Reports are surfacing that a will drafted by Jeffrey Epstein in January 2019 named Kathryn Ruemml...
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · September 9, 2025
Markets & FinanceFor a while now, it felt like Nvidia (NVDA) could do no wrong. The chipmaker became the undisputed king of the generative AI boom, consistently delivering earnings reports that didn't just meet Wall S...
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 4 min read · September 9, 2025
Markets & FinanceAs the trading day dawns, Dow futures are showing a modest uptick, a subtle move that belies the underlying tension ahead of a crucial data release. Investors, still digesting a mixed bag of corporate...
By Lina Brennan · 2 min read · September 9, 2025
Markets & FinanceIn an investment landscape often dominated by the flash and dash of equities, bonds can sometimes feel like the quiet, predictable cousin. But overlooking their nuances, especially in today's dynamic ...
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 4 min read · September 5, 2025
Markets & FinanceIt’s easy to feel invincible when the market is on a tear. With major indices hitting new highs and portfolios swelling, there’s a pervasive sense that perhaps, just perhaps, all those years of dilige...
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · September 5, 2025
Markets & FinanceU.S. cannabis companies are making a high-stakes wager, hoping the federal government will, for lack of a better phrase, chill out on a staggering tax bill. We're talking about more than $2 billion in...
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · September 5, 2025
Markets & FinanceIn a welcome piece of news for consumers and policymakers alike, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced that global food prices held broadly steady in August. The FAO fo...
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · September 5, 2025
Markets & FinanceAs Friday dawns, all eyes are firmly fixed on the Labor Department's impending Nonfarm Payrolls report, a release that consistently acts as a gravitational pull for global financial markets. Ahead of ...
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · September 5, 2025
Markets & FinanceThe market just did it again. Wall Street closed out the week with a palpable sense of exuberance, as the S&P 500 surged to a new all-time record high, capping off a robust performance driven by growi...
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 2 min read · September 4, 2025
Markets & FinanceIn a strategic maneuver that sent T. Rowe Price's stock soaring, Goldman Sachs has agreed to invest a significant $1 billion into the Baltimore-based asset manager, simultaneously forging a partnershi...
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · September 4, 2025
Markets & FinanceIt looks like Nasdaq is drawing a line in the sand. In a move that's been anticipated by many on Wall Street, the exchange is reportedly tightening its listing rules, particularly for smaller China-ba...
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · September 4, 2025
Markets & FinanceYou know, it’s a tricky game Governor Gavin Newsom is playing in California, trying to balance the existential threat of wildfires with the financial stability of the state’s crucial utilities. His ad...
By Theo Bodden · 3 min read · September 4, 2025
Markets & FinanceIt feels like we're having a lot of these conversations lately, doesn't it? That familiar hum around the water cooler isn't about the latest tech IPO or a splashy private equity buyout. No, the real b...
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · September 4, 2025
Markets & FinanceThe momentum that had propelled Chinese and Hong Kong equities through a "red-hot" rally over the past weeks appears to be losing steam, as markets experienced a notable pullback. Equities in both reg...
By Theo Bodden · 2 min read · September 4, 2025
Markets & FinanceThe equity markets certainly had a spring in their step today, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both pushing notably higher, largely on the back of renewed enthusiasm for technology and growth st...
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 3 min read · September 3, 2025