Commodities are primary resources found in nature that makeup goods. Commodities are interchangeable with other similar interests of the same type. While they may slightly vary, companies produce them uniformly. Commodity Grade Uniformity An exchange sets the minimum standard, also known as a “basis grade.” The term basis grade refers to the minimum…

How to navigate market noise: Active Asset Allocation & Evidence Based investing is a webinar organized by Swissquote in collaboration with Harver Capital Managing Director Glenn Coxon. He has been in investment management since 1997 and specializes in managing private client and family office wealth. The webinar aims to educate…

Know what’s driving markets with Swissquote’s Market Talk videos. Watch the Market Talk every morning and a weekly Crypto Market Talk. Start your day right and tune in to fun and hard-hitting news and analysis of the financial markets with Swissquote’s Ipek Ozkardeskaya. Every weekday morning at 10am the Market…

Total worldwide energy usage is expected to grow by nearly 50% by 2050, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Demand for renewable energy sources from most market segments is exploding… …and is predicted to accelerate in 2022. To meet the growing global demand without falling back on fossil fuels…

The pandemic accelerated two trends in the world of digital payments: cash-to-noncash conversion and e-commerce adoption. These were hardly new concepts, but with restrictions, lockdowns and the impossibility of moving around freely (especially across borders), these trends became the main drivers for growth and further adoption of digital payments. Global…

The fifth-generation (5G) wireless market plumped the pockets of investors in 2021 despite pandemic-related delays to infrastructure buildouts and associated service deployments. Mobile network operators remained committed to the technology — as did savvy investors. There were 290 million subscriptions to 5G in the first quarter of 2021, and a…

China´s already huge internet sector continues to grow at lightning speed. Chinese authorities reported that the market has now almost 1 billion users, which is more than three times the population of the USA. Out of that billion users, 31% are from rural areas. The number of people online shopping…

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The Covid-19 crisis hit the business world in unthinkable ways. The hasty switch to workfrom-home caused, among other things, a renewed need for firms to update their cybersecurity departments. This increased the flow of internet traffic, and created a huge opportunity for hackers to expand their business. IBM has estimated…