This Financial Education Startup Empowers Women to Achieve Financial Literacy
This financial education startup is helping women get money-smart After Britt Baker graduated from Harvard Business School in 2016, her friends back in California begged for a souvenir: the best investment advice she’d learned. Baker, 37, indulged them, starting out of her Fairfax, Calif., living room a finance club that eventually became her present-day financial […]
Is Warren Buffett Aware of Insights That Wall Street Overlooks?
Does Warren Buffett Know Something Wall Street Doesn’t? Warren Buffett is known for generally making the right investing decisions at the right moment, and that’s helped Berkshire Hathaway beat the market for nearly 60 years. The billionaire, who doesn’t follow the crowd, made a couple of standout moves in recent times, and this may prompt […]
Researchers Create Eco-Friendly Technique for Extracting Gold from Ore and Electronic Waste
Gold bar from e-waste. Image: Flinders University. An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, says it has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract and recover gold from ore and electronic waste. Published in the leading journal Nature Sustainability, the gold-extraction technique promises […]
Ford CEO Warns That Emerging Technologies Like AI Are Leaving Workers Behind, Urging Companies to Develop a Strategy
Ford CEO says new technologies like AI are leaving many workers behind, and companies need a plan For all the talk about how artificial intelligence is going to transform our daily lives, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that technological advances are leaving some people behind. It’s the factory employees, construction workers, and HVAC installers who […]
Industry Risks NGL Overexpansion Amid Slowing Growth
Industry Risks NGL Overbuild as Growth Slows US NGL infrastructure has quietly transitioned from tight to overbuilt. While production continues to grow, the pace has moderated significantly following ‘Liberation Day’ and a softer WTI price environment. Permian NGL takeaway capacity, once a constraint, now exceeds demand by a wide margin. Total pipeline capacity nears 5.5 […]
Why the Bank of Canada Is Expected to Maintain Interest Rates…
Canada’s economy slipped into reverse in April, losing its March momentum, as the rising strain of US tariffs weighed more heavily on economic activity. The economy shrank 0.1%, a touch below the FactSet consensus estimate of 0.0%, having expanded 0.2% the month before. While the latest data supports a potential interest rate cut in July, […]
China Launches Its First Offshore Gold Vault in Hong Kong
AI-generated image. (Credit: Adobe Stock) The Shanghai Gold Exchange has expanded outside mainland China for the first time, with the rollout of two new contracts and a bullion vault in Hong Kong. The launch serves a number of purposes, from broadening the Shanghai bourse’s international reach, to strengthening China’s clout in commodity and currency markets […]
15 Must-Read Finance Press Releases
15 Finance Press Releases You Need to See A roundup of the most newsworthy financial press releases from PR Newswire this week, including a new crypto-focused partnership between Chainlink and Mastercard and decreased consumer confidence scores. NEW YORK, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult […]
Live Updates on Stoxx, FTSE, DAX, and Tariff Developments
Live updates on Stoxx, FTSE, DAX, tariffs news American fund managers welcome decision to scrap Section 899 The Investment Company Institute (ICI), which represents fund houses in the U.S. and some in Europe, welcomed the powerful Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees’ decision to remove Section 899 from U.S. President Donald Trump’s spending bill. […]
CHART: The Harsh Economics of Lithium for EV Batteries
CHART: The brutal economics of EV battery lithium The recent developments in the lithium market have drawn attention as SQM, the world’s second-largest lithium miner, announced a reduction of 5% in its workforce in Chile. This decision aligns with the broader trend of a price collapse for lithium, which has seen its values plummet from […]