If you’ve ever wondered why the numbers behind market indices sometimes don’t quite match up with what you’d expect from just adding up all the companies’ values, it’s often because of something called float adjustment, which basically means that not all shares are counted equally—especially when some are locked up by governments or insiders—so it’s…
I’ve been looking at how passive investing has changed the way smaller companies in the S&P 500 trade, and it seems like it’s making it harder for people to buy and sell these stocks easily or figure out what they’re really worth, especially when you look at how the gap between what buyers want to…
Let’s take a look at what’s happening in the markets today, since there’s a lot going on—from the way tensions between countries are shaping investor moods, to how money is moving in and out of tech stocks, and even how global stock markets are starting to move in their own directions while Bitcoin’s liquidity keeps…
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