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...
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”...
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 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...
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 […]
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...
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 […]
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...
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...
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...