New research shows the robots are coming for jobs—but stealthily
Jan 16th 2021THE YEAR is 2021, and honestly there ought to be more robots. It was a decade ago that two scholars of technology,…
Shares in emerging markets have hit a record peak
IN HIS BOOK “The Emerging Markets Century”, published in 2007, Antoine van Agtmael marvelled at the progress of emerging markets…
Why everyone is now an options trader
Jan 16th 2021IN THE BUCKET shops of early 20th-century America, ordinary punters could bet on the direction of share prices with…
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First-time investors are flooding Brazil’s stockmarket
“MY PARENTS NEVER talked about investing,” says Arthur Lira, a university student from Olinda, a city in Brazil’s poor north-east….
What is the economic impact of the latest round of lockdowns?
The rich world has become better at mitigating their economic costJan 13th 2021THE LOCKDOWNS of the spring, which at their peak…
What the Big Mac index tells you about currency wars
Could burger prices inform the Biden administration’s thinking on currencies?Jan 12th 2021WASHINGTON, DCDESPITE A RECENT bout…
Commodity prices are surging
Is a new supercycle beginning?THE BIGGEST commodity story of 2020 was one of decline. As the coronavirus pandemic halted travel,…
S&P pays $44bn for IHS Markit as financial-data providers race for scale
Like their consumer-tech counterparts, market-information providers want to lock clients into self-contained ecosystemsNov 30th…
Meet the data firms cashing in on the quant-investing boom
TRADERS AND their Bloomberg terminals are seldom parted. Some 330,000 people fork out around $25,000 annually to access Bloomberg’s…