The Dow Jones shot up 2,962 points, the S&P 500 gained 9.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite had its second best day on record. Billions of dollars in wealth were restored. Investors saw Wednesday’s announcement as a lifeline, while the White House fra...
Here’s the upshot of the active vs. passive debate: passive investing does better most of the time. In fact, a recent report from S&P Dow Jones Indices shows that 93 percent of U.S. active managers in large companies were unable to beat the market over a 20-year period ending Dec. ...
Anyway you slice it, it was a rough year for U.S. stocks. Even the blue-chip Dow Jones 30 index fell, although a -9% return was modest relative to most major equity indices. Exactly two-thirds of Dow components finished the year in the red. That meant there were plenty of candidates...
Since then, the two companies have traded blows, with each taking the lead at various times. Intel held a strong advantage in the early 2000s, but AMD struck back with its groundbreaking Ryzen processors in 2017, reigniting the competition and forcing Intel to innovate faster. Is AMD better...
The major indexes that we have today would be the S&P 500, the Dow Jones, and the Nasdaq 100, which tracks the top 100 tech companies. The cool thing about these index funds is that it allows ordinary people to invest and match the returns of the market. On average,the S&P 500 has ...
In its encounter with Natur,science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe.The very act of understanding is a celebration of joinin,mergin,even if on a very modest scal,with the magnificence of the Cosmos.And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science ...
Significant global efforts are underway by several major pharmaceutical companies to develop RSV fusion (F) protein inhibitors to prevent viral entry into host cells, as recently reviewed in detail elsewhere,72 which seems to suggest that the first marketed drug against RSV infections might be within...
To this end, the NEC Group actively implemented measures such as business acquisitions and forming alliances with other companies for expanding business on a global scale. As a result, we have transformed NEC into an enterprise that can generate profits to enable dividend payments even with the ...
Win Jang is his firm’ s research director, and as one of his regular duties distributes a monthly "Top 10 Buys and Sells" list drawn from companies listed in Hong Kong. One month, Jang reads an academic research paper detailing a screening algorithm (based on companies earnings, depreciatio...
relatively little intervention from fund managers after construction. Passive funds simply adjust their holdings to match the stocks or bonds of the companies listed on the index. Because these strategies require less buying and selling of the underlying securities in the fund, ...