Category: Global Finance

After years of rumors of an imminent IPO, Instacart has finally filed for a public offering of it’s shares, aspiring to raise about $600 million...

It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting businesses.  The strike by screen actors and writers...

I have always loved sports, playing tennis and cricket when I was growing up, before transitioning to fan status, cheering for my favored teams from...

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which...

    If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at...

I have looked at country risk, in all its dimensions, towards the middle of each year, for the last decade, for many reasons. One is...

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate...

I will start this post with a couple of confessions. The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market...

In March 2023, the fall of Silicon Valley Bank shocked investors not only because it was unforeseen, but also because of the speed with which...