July 2026 will be remembered as a turbulent month for IBM shareholders. But IBM's record post-earnings selloff overshadowed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, that strengthens its long-term quantum computing strategy.
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If you pay attention to financial media, you’re likely to hear quite a bit about September being the worst month for investors. While this is indeed borne out by the data, seasonality is a fickle guide.
The foreign exchange (FX) market trades around the world, around the clock and without a central trading venue. Yet FX liquidity tends to aggregate at a particular time in a single place—the end of the London trading day.
The term 'Smart Beta' stems from a combination of traditional passive indexing (Beta) with active, rule-based stock selection strategies (Smart) - with a goal to beat standard market performance.
Like today’s advanced garage with a complete set of diagnostic tools that analyze a car’s function, investors need an extremely comprehensive approach when considering where to put money.
Eagle eyed currency observers will have noticed something peculiar in the Japanese Yen (JPY) on the July 30, 2026 with a circa. Japan and the US engaged in a co-ordinated intervention in the currency markets causing a 5-standard deviation move in Dollar-Yen.
A remarkable sporting spectacle has finally come to an end. The diversity of play and players on display reminded the world that investing in the right things does pay off.
Stocks are no longer moving together to the same degree, while the gap between winners and losers has widened sharply. For active investors, that combination matters.
Just as most people would prefer to live in a beautiful home in a good neighborhood, an investor wants the top company relative to the competition. One where the management takes great care in building its worth.
The June 2026 reconstitution arrives at an interesting moment. While the continued rise of mega-cap companies such as Nvidia and Alphabet has reshaped the top of the market-cap spectrum, preliminary reconstitution data also points to improving breadth beneath the surface.
With inflation still above target, the money and bond markets have clearly shifted monetary policy expectations for Fed rate hikes later this year.
The Russell US Indexes are reconstituted on a semi-annual basis to reflect changes in the investable US equity market. While much of the attention surrounding reconstitution focuses on companies moving between large- and small-cap indexes, the process also updates another important dimension of index membership: style.