Elevated market risk: topping semiconductors, oil-driven inflation, stretched S&P 500 valuations, and a pivotal Fed ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In our recently published 2025 Diversification Landscape report, Christine Benz, Karen Zaya, Jason Kephart, and I took a deep dive into how different asset classes performed in the past couple of ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She holds a Bachelor ...

The foreign exchange (forex) and stock markets are completely different financial markets. Despite that, they may still display correlated movements, although that may not be readily apparent to the ...

In our previous report, we discussed how practitioners typically measure investment risk. We also noted how there are ways to reduce risks in a portfolio, such as ‘diversification,’ which can help ...

There is some evidence that Alzheimer’s disease may increase napping, and that this, in turn, may worsen the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. This finding comes from a study of 1,401 older adults. It found ...

Hoffman’s sign or reflex is a test that doctors use to examine the reflexes of the upper extremities. The sign takes its name from a German neurologist called Johann Hoffman. Other names for the sign ...

Self-esteem supports emotional health in big ways. “Self-esteem refers to a person’s overall subjective evaluation of their worth or value, abilities, qualities, and characteristics,” explains Sanam ...

Crypto assets such as Bitcoin have matured from an obscure asset class with few users to an integral part of the digital asset revolution, raising financial stability concerns. Crypto assets are no ...