Black Swan

Don't let short-term market trends interfere with a sound investing strategy. As Americans have spent weeks staying put at home to slow the spread of COVID-19, the stock market has gone on a wild ride, first crashing and then rallying even as unemployment reached record highs.  With so much volatility…

Sales and marketing both play vital roles in business growth and brand image. With the rise of the next black swan events, businesses are striving to adapt in the face of changing circumstances and need to rethink their strategy for getting all parts of the organization aligned. In theory, sales…

In the midst of a true crisis in the food business (dumped milk, broken eggs, ploughed back crops, meat factory shutdowns) it is hard to find examples of food suppliers whose entire focus is not on survival. Restaurants worldwide are questioning if they will have a business when we emerge…

We may benefit from sharing data, but we don’t want to lose control of it. We may benefit by ... collaborating, but we want to protect our interests. Pioneers are turning to blockchains to advance our capability to simultaneously share and protect. Margarida CSilva, Unsplash In our jet age, a…

For years, I have been warning that during the age of permanent stimulus (which began in earnest with the Federal Reserve’s reaction to the dotcom crash of 2000), each successive economic contraction would have to be met with ever larger, increasingly ineffective, doses of monetary and fiscal stimulus to keep…

WILTON, CT - MARCH 21: Protesters stand in front of the Financial Products Headquarters of American ... International Group Inc. (A.I.G.) following a bus tour to the homes of some of the executives who were recipients of a bonus from A.I.G. on March 21, 2009 in Wilton, Connecticut. A bus…

May 26, 2020 11:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig, a global data analytics and advisory firm, that delivers actionable analytics solutions to resolve complex business problems announces the completion of its free resource that examines the importance of supply chain visibility in ensuring business continuity. What’s in it for…

As the leader of a publicly traded corporation with 135,000 employees, Verizon Communications CEO Hans Vestberg has a unique perspective on the state of the world. When he appears today on Extra Crunch Live, our virtual speaker series for Extra Crunch members, we’ll ask him about this extraordinary moment in…

This successful biotech has two big things going for it. The answer is yes. There's no need to build any suspense. Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) is definitely a great stock to buy right now, in my view. I've owned the biotech stock for a couple of years. I bought more shares recently…

Markets have bounced back sharply from their March lows. Here's what to do if you missed the bottom. 2020 has been a crazy year for investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all started the year strong, with the three major U.S. indexes trading at all-time highs…