BIG WINNERS IN AI. Written by: Angela Akers Besides the Fed’s 25-basis point rate hike, tech’s earnings highs and lows, and a blockbuster January Jobs report, everybody’s also talking about Artificial Intelligence, AI, this week. At the end of November, the user base of a private company called OpenAI, exploded after it released the [...]
Written by: Angela Akers The market began the New Year with a bang. In the first two trading weeks, the Dow added 3.5%, the S&P500 rose 4.2%, the Nasdaq climbed 5.9% and the Price of the VectorVest Composite (VVC) increased 5.6% through January 13, 2023. However, the mood soured a bit this week as [...]
Written by: Angela Akers The Federal Reserve had its final meeting of 2022 last week and raised interest rates by 50 basis points, from 4.25% to 4.50%. Fed Chair Jerome Powell set expectations that the Fed funds rate will increase to between 5.00% and 5.25% by early next year and remain at that level [...]
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ESG & TECH SHOW – BLOCKCHAIN – A DISRUPTOR During the latest episode of the ESG & Tech Show, I focused on the blockchain. It’s a topic that is gaining more and more traction all the time. It has the potential to disrupt many business models and is often mired in confusion. Therefore, it merited [...]
Three Ways to Handle Inflation in the Stock Market Today In the latest ESG & Tech show, I delved right into the theme as it is the conversation of the day, the week, and the year! First, it’s important to understand what drives inflation. Three causes of inflation “Demand-pull” inflation refers to when there is [...]
Passion Meets Profits – Fantastic Female Fridays with Heidi Browning, CMO, National Hockey League I first met Heidi Browning when kindly invited to interview her on stage for the Sports Technology conference in Dublin. She was a highly accomplished woman, at the pinnacle of her marketing career and invested immense effort and passion into [...]
Traders and investors are always searching for the Perfect Indicator. You know, the Holy Grail that never loses. How do I know? Well, I am one of those people. Sorry, but it doesn't exist. All I will say is there are technical indicators that can give you a "Trader's Edge." They are mostly trend-following indicators [...]
Financial Nakedness – Part 1 In the latest episode of Fantastic Female Fridays, I interviewed Carol Glynn of Conscious Finance Coaching. It’s a company based in Dubai that Carol spearheads intending to help her clients (who are primarily women) overcome challenges to achieve their financial dreams. She calls the work that she does “financial nakedness” [...]
The Fastest Growing ESG ETFs in the World Younger investors think Exchange Traded Funds have always been here. However, we know that’s not the case. In fact, the first American ETF was born in 1993 and it’s one of the most traded equity instruments today; namely SPY (the S&P 500 ETF). The first European ETFs [...]
