When building an investment portfolio, one of the most important decisions is how to balance real assets and financial assets. Each plays a distinct role: Financial assets like stocks and bonds offer ...

Swap networks are central bank arrangements that enhance liquidity and manage interest rates. Learn how they work and why ...

Futures and forex markets are both popular options for investors looking to trade financial assets, but they differ in key ways. Futures involve standardized contracts to buy or sell assets at a set ...

Algorithmic trading is no longer the exclusive domain of niche quantitative firms—it has become the backbone of modern financial markets. I am already seeing the significant impact AI-driven ...

The Department of Defense and Wall Street can work together by harnessing the strength of American financial markets to rebuild defense manufacturing. The United States faces a formidable financing ...

This paper introduces the U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (USMPD), a novel, public, and regularly updated dataset of financial market data around Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy ...

As long as financial markets have existed, so has market manipulation. But what if the people engaging in market manipulation aren't people at all? The indicators, Adrian Ma and Wailin Wong uncover ...

The European Parliament has published draft report on reform to, and creation of, a Capital Markets Union (“CMU”). The European Commission has also a strategy for a savings and investments union (“SIU ...