Investing
How To Benchmark Your ETF Investments

Exchange-traded funds package hundreds or thousands of securities into a single share. Each fund publishes a prospectus that names the index it intends to replicate or outperform. The stated index becomes the yardstick against which every quarterly report, fee along with deviation is judged. A fund that claims the S&P 500 as its reference must […]

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Investing
Top Ten Holdings of Five Prominent Money Managers

Quarterly 13F filings reveal the exact positions of the most closely watched portfolios. The ten largest line items in each report attract particular attention because they absorb the greatest share of research hours, internal debate along with capital. Investor dollars serve as the only scoreboard that matters. The five vehicles below manage assets measured in […]

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Financial Markets
Top Stock Movers Now - Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Moderna, Tesla along with More

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq reached new intraday peaks as traders priced in additional bilateral trade accords. Hewlett Packard Enterprise cleared the final regulatory hurdle for its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. A Senate budget draft trimmed or removed green energy tax subsidies - depressing AES, NextEra Energy in addition to Tesla. Hewlett Packard […]

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Cryptocurrency
Ethereum's Difficulty Bomb Explained

Ethereum's “difficulty bomb” denotes a hard coded exponential rise in the proof-of-work puzzle complexity on the mainnet. Each block height triggers a step function that lengthens the time between successive blocks. The chain therefore loses throughput at an accelerating rate. Miners confront shrinking rewards measured in ether per unit of electricity. The network enters a […]

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Cryptocurrency Exchanges
What Was FTX? An Overview of the Exchange

FTX Exchange operated as a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that listed spot markets, derivatives, options, volatility contracts along with leveraged products. Sam Bankman-Fried, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate and former Jane Street Capital exchange traded fund trader, founded the company in 2018. The group maintained two trading arms. FTX International, domiciled in the Bahamas, served […]

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