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Investing in microcap stocks, also called penny stocks, demands a higher degree of risk tolerance than investing in small-cap stocks because risk increases with lower market capitalization. One reason for this higher risk is the thin trading volume for microcap stocks, which can make it difficult to sell shares at the desired price within a

Brexit minister Lord David Frost has quit the UK government in the latest blow to Boris Johnson’s authority. The cabinet minister’s departure from government during such an intense period of negotiations with Brussels is likely to increase Eurosceptic fears that Johnson is capitulating on post-Brexit trade arrangements in Northern Ireland. It is understood Johnson is

The Netherlands has become the first EU country to re-enter a strict nationwide lockdown, in a response to the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant that will shutter swaths of the economy until at least mid-January. Tough new restrictions to close all bars, restaurants, non-essential shops, cinemas, and gyms will kick in from Sunday morning

Workers contribute to the Social Security fund through payroll taxes over a lifetime of work, so you might as well make the most of your benefits. This article contains nine ways you may be able to boost your Social Security benefits. Key Takeaways Retirees can boost their Social Security with a few key strategies. Wait

HTSI editor, Jo Ellison © Marili Andre ’Tis the week before Christmas, and in this, our last issue of the year, we take an opportunity to look back at some of the highlights of 2021 as well as capturing the energy to take us into 2022. A year that has found us in many different situations ends on a

Government science advisers have warned ministers that tighter Covid restrictions need to be implemented swiftly in England to stem the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant and avert a wave of hospitalisations similar in scale to last winter. The warning came as London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, declared a “major incident” in the city. Khan said

They have been available on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) only since 2016 but owing to their fixed all-or-nothing payout, binary options (also called digital options) are becoming popular among traders and are gaining some interest from individual investors, particularly as a tool for hedging their positions in stocks. Compared to the traditional plain

That a competent generation of English footballers was “golden”. That a CD album by Linkin Park or Green Day should retail for upwards of $20. That, with sage government, the vicissitudes of the business cycle were as eradicable as rubella. There was so much hubris around in the early years of the millennium that it

Alan Garner, 87, devised a new genre of myth-based fantasy with his first novel for children, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, published in 1960. His novels for adults include Strandloper, Thursbitch and Boneland. He was appointed OBE in 2001 for services to literature. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? At the age of four I

We see beer at sporting events, parties, and backyard barbecues, but how many of us have ever thought about what goes into that can or bottle? Not the ingredients—the economics. The brewing industry is quite complex, and it takes more than just a brewing technique to get your favorite beer into your local store or

Ghislaine Maxwell declined to testify on Friday as her lawyers wrapped up her defence on criminal sex trafficking charges after two days. “Your honour, the government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt, and so there is no need for me to testify,” Maxwell, 59, said on Friday afternoon, after Judge Alison Nathan

At the inaugural home game of the National Hockey League’s Seattle Kraken this October, team co-owner and private equity billionaire David Bonderman looked on as a tribute video showed footage of his undergraduate days at the University of Washington in the 1960s. The Krakens lost the match, but it was nevertheless the culmination of years

For more than a week, mortgage rates have inched up, then down, then back again, keeping the 30-year fixed-rate average wavering within one point’s distance of 3.30%. Though the Fed made a major rate announcement Wednesday afternoon, it has so far not impacted mortgage rates. National Averages of Lenders’ Best Rates Loan Type Purchase Refinance

In this article JPM Scott Mlyn | CNBC JPMorgan Chase is paying a $125 million fine to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that its Wall Street division allowed employees to use WhatsApp and other platforms to circumvent federal record-keeping laws. The SEC said Friday in a statement that JPMorgan Securities admitted to “widespread” record-keeping

This was the week that central banks around the world changed gears and got serious about inflation. Gone was talk from the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank or Bank of England that rapidly rising prices were temporary, transitory or transient. Instead, they began to worry about high inflation being “persistent”. The ECB and Fed sharply

Lavish monetary stimulus has pushed up US stocks since the pandemic hit. Few would argue against that. So what happened when the Federal Reserve said this week it would start pulling back? The stock market jumped of course. In a news cycle dominated by surging meme stocks and unproven companies with valuations in the billions

Human capital is a concept that deviates slightly from other forms of standard capital. It is not necessarily like debt or equity capital that is more easily accounted for on the balance sheet. Rather, it falls more in the realm of intellectual property and intellectual capital, which is generally hard to quantify. That is because

The HSBC Holdings Plc headquarters building in Hong Kong, China. Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Investors should brace for a “pay-back period” in 2022 following a year of strong gains, as macroeconomic risks mount, according to HSBC Asset Management. In its 2022 investment outlook, the bank said the bumper returns investors

A burst of early Christmas shopping boosted UK retailers in November, as consumers heeded warnings to buy gifts early to avoid being caught by stock shortages due to supply chain problems. Retail sales volumes rose by 1.4 per cent from the previous month, faster than analysts had expected, and were 7.2 per cent above their

HSBC has been hit with a £64m fine and sharply criticised by UK regulators for “serious weaknesses” in its anti money laundering controls over an eight-year period. The Financial Conduct Authority said that, between March 2010 and March 2018, HSBC had a string of AML failures. They included not properly considering the scenarios it was

Social media site Reddit revealed on Dec. 15, 2021 that it has made a confidential filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in preparation for an initial public offering (IPO). Reddit reportedly is aiming for a valuation of $15 billion when its IPO comes to market. Message boards on Reddit, most notably WallStreetBets,

(Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Engine No. 1 was founded a year ago this month, and since then, has made a splash in the investing world. Most notably, the ESG-oriented investment firm took on Exxon Mobil in a proxy battle and won. It also launched an ETF and published a white paper,

Repeats comprise almost a third of output on the BBC’s flagship television channel as a funding squeeze forces deeper cuts to programming budgets and exacerbates pandemic-induced disruption, the public spending watchdog has found. The proportion of reruns on BBC One’s schedule has risen more than a fifth over four years and BBC Two is even

Eric Platt and Kate Duguid in New York and George Steer and Tommy Stubbington in London US stocks fell on Thursday as shares of some of the largest publicly traded technology companies slid in value after policy decisions from the European Central Bank, Bank of England and Federal Reserve. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite declined 2.5

The spot forex market traded over $6.6 trillion a day as of April 2019, including currency options and futures contracts. With this enormous amount of money floating around in an unregulated spot market that trades instantly, over the counter, with no accountability, forex scams offer unscrupulous operators the lure of earning fortunes in limited amounts of time.

Jim Cramer Scott Mlyn | CNBC CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that early strength in the broader market indexes after the Federal Reserve‘s faster, but still gradual tightening plans does not reflect the reality that many companies are starting to struggle. “If you’re in companies losing money, you should sell them,” Cramer said on “Squawk

The Bank of Mexico is expected to raise interest rates for the fifth consecutive time on Thursday as it tries to smooth over a rocky leadership transition while the country faces its highest inflation in two decades. Analysts believe that the five-member board will increase the key rate by 25 basis points to 5.25 per

The Brazilian government is kicking out the IMF’s representative office in the country after complaints over the institution’s economic forecasts. “It has been years since they were needed here. They stayed because they like feijoada [black bean and meat stew], football, good conversation and, from time to time, to criticise and make wrong predictions,” said

A series of tax bills in recent years, culminating in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, has given investors a tremendous opportunity for savings on long-term capital gains and dividends. But the way to take full advantage of these changes is to use tax lots in managing your investment purchases and sales,

European supermarket chains J Sainsbury, Carrefour and Ahold Delhaize will stop selling several Brazilian meat products after an investigation found they contributed to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Pressure to halt deforestation has ratcheted up since last month’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. It resulted in more than 100 countries pledging to end by