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Student Loan Stocks Drop Ahead of Restart of Payments
Consumer Finance // October 05, 2023

Stocks of companies related to student loans have experienced a drop in value ahead of the restart of student loan payments after a three-year pause and amid the Biden administration’s efforts to cancel some of that debt. The four stocks most closely linked to student...

First-Quarter Earnings Calls Show Shift From Growth to Efficiency
Earnings // May 01, 2023

A shift from growth to efficiency is showing up in earnings calls across industries. With half of the S&P 500 having held calls for last quarter thus far, the number of mentions made during the calls of terms like “personnel costs” and “spending on hiring”...

What Macro Challenges? S&P 500 Firms Trounce First Quarter Estimates
Earnings // April 17, 2023

Big banks are kicking off earning season in style. This despite a first quarter 2023 that was anything but sedate, with the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank spurring fears of greater bank runs, and the Federal Reserve continuing to hike interest...

Analysts Expect 6.8% Decline in First-Quarter Earnings
Earnings // April 10, 2023

Analysts expect S&P 500 companies to report a year-over-year 6.8% decline in first-quarter earnings. If those expectations turn out to be correct, that would be the biggest drop since the second quarter of 2020, when pandemic shutdowns began to be put in place, the Financial...

Interviews & Exclusives
What We’ve Learned Tracking the 100 Connected Economy Leaders Since 2022

July 15, 2024
The Connected Economy (CE) 100 Stock Index was launched in February 2022. It was introduced as an equity index of 100 publicly traded companies across 11 categories, aiming to track the digital transformation and the growth of the connected economy. At the time, though we were emerging from the pandemic, and that the CE had some […]

S&P Dow Jones Strips Russian Stocks From Indexes

March 06, 2022
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Friday (March 4) that it will remove stocks listed or domiciled in Russia from its benchmarks because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. This will...

Quick Reads
Student Loan Stocks Drop Ahead of Restart of Payments

October 05, 2023
Stocks of companies related to student loans have experienced a drop in value ahead of the restart of student loan payments after a three-year pause and amid the Biden administration’s efforts to cancel some of that debt. The four stocks most closely linked to student loans include SoFi Technologies, which specializes in refinancing student loans, as […]

First-Quarter Earnings Calls Show Shift From Growth to Efficiency

May 01, 2023
A shift from growth to efficiency is showing up in earnings calls across industries. With half of the S&P 500 having held calls for last quarter thus far, the number...

What Macro Challenges? S&P 500 Firms Trounce First Quarter Estimates

April 17, 2023
Big banks are kicking off earning season in style. This despite a first quarter 2023 that was anything but sedate, with the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature...

Analysts Expect 6.8% Decline in First-Quarter Earnings

April 10, 2023
Analysts expect S&P 500 companies to report a year-over-year 6.8% decline in first-quarter earnings. If those expectations turn out to be correct, that would be the biggest drop since the...