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Why ESG Investors Are Happy to Settle for Lower Returns

If money talks, then investors could surely prod corporations to espouse environmental, social and governance or ESG aspects in how they...

How to Beat Analysts and the Stock Market with Machine Learning

Analyst expectations of firms’ earnings are on average biased upwards, and that bias varies over time and stocks, according to new...

Why Higher Income Taxes Incentivize Insider Trading

Profits from insider trading are a means for executives at publicly held U.S. companies to offset changes in income taxes at the cost of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...