Yield farming and liquidity mining have become key components of the decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem. These strategies allow crypto holders to earn passive income by lending or staking their assets. While the potential returns are attractive, the risks involved can be significant. At Fintech Review we explore yield farming...
The Canary Wharf business district is seen in the distance behind autumnal leaves on October 09, 2024 in London, United Kingdom.Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON — Inflation in the U.K. dropped sharply to 1.7% in September, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday.Economists polled by...
Apple is back. Shares hit an all-time high Tuesday despite a chorus of recent concerns from Wall Street analysts about demand for the new artificial intelligence-enabled iPhone 16. The news A major catalyst for Tuesday's move: Data that signaled strong demand for Apple's biggest money maker, the iPhone. In...
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: UnitedHealth — Shares plunged 7.2% after the health-care giant lowered its earnings guidance due to ongoing headwinds from a cyberattack earlier in the year. UnitedHealth cut the top end of its full-year earnings forecast, which is now $27.50 to $27.75...
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesUnitedHealth Group provided a 2025 profit forecast below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, saying it expects pressure across its government-supported health insurance businesses, and its shares fell 9%.The largest U.S. health insurer forecast a profit of as much as $30 per share. That...
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Gregg Greenberg spent 14 years as a journalist at TheStreet.com where he wrote the highly popular column "The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week". His work has appeared in magazines ranging from Glamour to ESPN the Magazine, and on humor sites such as Points in Case.
So much has been written lately about the integration of Quantitative Investing and Machine Learning. Are you wondering about whether to apply ML to your investment process or feel like your team isn’t progressing fast enough? We hope that our new blog series on applying Machine Learning algorithms will...
Charles Munger at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, April 29, 2022.David A. Grogan | CNBCCharlie Munger believes there is trouble ahead for the U.S. commercial property market.The 99-year-old investor told the Financial Times that U.S. banks are packed with "bad loans" that will be vulnerable...
Siemens wind turbines operate on a wind farm in Marshalltown, Iowa, where many of Berkshire's first big renewable investments were made over the past decade as the former MidAmerican Energy under now-Berkshire Energy was well situated in one of the nation's top wind corridors.Timothy Fadek | Corbis News |...
Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway raised its stakes in five Japan stocks — a good sign for investors in Japan, according to Credit Suisse. "This, together with Berkshire Hathaway's recent issuance of JPY bonds, has put the spotlight on value and quality investment opportunities in Japan," Credit Suisse said...
Market veteran Howard Marks is sounding the alarm on commercial real estate, with an anticipated wave of mortgage defaults set to add stress to the financial system. "We're very likely to see mortgage defaults in the headlines, and at a minimum, this may spook lenders, throw sand into the...
Takeaways from the CQA Spring Conference 2023 by Peter Millington, Founder and CTO of Scientific Financial Systems (SFS)Peter Millington, founder, and CTO of SFS, recently attended the 2023 CQA Spring Conference in Las Vegas. This annual event brings together top quantitative finance professionals to discuss the latest developments and...
At Scientific Financial Systems, we have mapped a lot of vendor data into Quotient – mostly from MS SQL Server databases. With the ever-growing popularity of Snowflake, vendors are releasing versions of their data products on this highly scalable, performant, and easy-to-share database. While Quotient’s architecture allows it to...
