A massive data-journalism project at The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed that more than 2,600 top federal officials traded stocks in companies they helped oversee,
The prospect of a company going public can be exhilarating, for journalists as well as company founders. Businesses are able to raise capital for expansion
At the start of 2021, the Gamestop/Reddit saga dominated the headlines. Reddit users on r/WallStreetBets managed to drastically inflate the stock prices of several struggling
If you think you know how stocks are doing, better check again in five minutes. The year’s been unpredictable. One of the questions I have
The much ballyhooed trading app Robinhood, a startup with an $8.3 billion valuation, has had runaway success, leapfrogging over major market players Charles Schwab, TD
The stock market is up! Oh, sorry, down! Ah, wait, up after all! Trying to follow and explain what stocks are doing can be a
What is Passive Investing? The first step in understanding passive investing, is to understand active investing. Active investing is the standard, and what most people
As reported on businessjournalism in mid-February, the coronavirus outbreak in China has begun to affect retail markets in the United States. The downward dip is
That rumble you hear on the horizon isn’t just the weather changing in October—there are things bumping in the economic dark that are scaring more
The nation’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, raised its benchmark interest rate at its December 19th meeting for the fifth consecutive quarter in 2018, to
Explosion of indexes In a previous post about indexes, I identified the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard and Poor’s 500 as the two
Initial public offerings are big for investors—and big news for business journalists. Because of SEC regulations, once a company says that it is IPO bound,
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