February 15, 2023 10:44 am
2022 has been detrimental for global equity markets. A plethora of factors ranging from inflation reaching a multi-decade high and rapidly-rising interest rates to the war in Ukraine triggered a sizable sell-off across stock markets, wiping trillions of dollars of value. The MSCI All-Country World Equity Index, which reflects the performance of Equities across 23 […]
Read moreFebruary 7, 2023 1:46 pm
Super Bowl, the final playoff in the National Football League, is one of the most long-awaited and watched events in the United States. Data shows that the event had 99.18 million viewers in 2022. Due to the astonishing number of viewers this sporting event attracts, many companies use the opportunity to advertise their products. During […]
Read moreFebruary 2, 2023 10:57 am
Supply chain shortages have been one of the biggest issues for the US industry over the past few years. The pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the over-reliance on China, all rightfully blamed for the lack of raw materials, semiconductor chips, and car parts actually shed some light on a domestic problem that has been […]
Read moreJanuary 17, 2023 9:28 am
Some of the world’s largest companies announced massive layoffs this year, with hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs. This wave of workforce cuts was particularly evident in the U.S. tech sector where software, consumer technologies and social media giants laid off a total of 154,336 employees. One of the notable reasons behind this […]
Read moreNovember 24, 2022 9:53 am
Since Qatar won the bid in 2010 to host the FIFA 2022 World Cup, the country has been busy preparing for the prestigious event that is set to kick off on November 20. The World Cup, which will see 32 national teams compete, starting with a match between Qatar and Ecuador, will attract some 1.5 […]
Read moreNovember 10, 2022 12:36 pm
US house prices, on average, have been rising at a rapid pace, with growth being about 30% during the period 2020-2022 alone. Considering the inflation and recession fears already in place, the rising housing prices just add to the discontent of the US citizens. Yet, after the Federal Reserve began to raise the target range […]
Read moreSeptember 26, 2022 2:21 pm
Driven by falling fuel prices and the tightening policies, introduced recently by the Federal Reserve, inflation is finally slowing down in the U.S. However, grocery prices in the U.S. remain sky-high – data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed food-at-home soared 13.5% in August, the largest annual increase since March 1979. Despite the […]
Read moreJuly 14, 2022 9:55 am
Market uncertainty, rising inflation, and lower crypto prices are among the hottest topics in 2022. Some analysts believe the worst is yet to come, while others strongly believe bulls will finally make the global economy take off. In these tense times, the editorial team at TradingPedia decided to have a deeper look at how the […]
Read moreJune 22, 2022 8:34 am
The first quarter of 2022 saw Xbox Series X/S unit sales surpass those of PlayStation 5 by a significant margin for the first time since the release of both consoles in November, 2020. In Q1 2022 Microsoft sold about 200,000 more consoles than Sony, which is a gap of over 10%. However, both manufacturers’ sales […]
Read moreJune 9, 2022 9:38 am
The number of startups, qualifying as Unicorns (valued at over $1 bln USD) has grown significantly in the last year and a half. The exact percentage of Unicorn growth in numbers since 01/01/2021 comes to 162% with 707 new unicorns emerging in that period. Up until the end of 2020, the total headcount of the […]
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