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s a discipline, history is facing both an extraordinary opportunity and a serious challenge. We have entered an age in which a machine can search millions of pages, translate languages, recognise handwriting, arrange information, summarise books, suggest references and produce fluent prose within seconds. A student can ask a machine about the Mughal Empire, the…

History and finance go hand in hand. Over the course of 5 webinars, CEO Jan van Eck sits down with leading historians and academics to provide a crash course in market history.

This year has been a challenging one for Wall Street, but that hasn’t seemed to slow the market down.

The S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is trading near all-time highs despite a worrying list of negatives. JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon recently laid out some of his concerns, describing “geopolitical tensions and wars, sticky inflation, large global fiscal deficits and elevated asset prices” as “tectonic plates” that could collide. The CEO was…

The S&P 500 has been advancing through a bull market for more than three years, with artificial intelligence (AI) stocks leading the way. Investors got excited about the game-changing nature of this technology and piled into potential winners early to maximize gains. And this proved to be a winning bet in many cases, considering the…

The idea of building a $1 million portfolio might sound more daunting than climbing Mt. Everest. In reality, it’s more achievable than you probably think. With enough time, discipline, and the right mix of investments, the long-term power of compounding can get you to the $1 million mark and beyond!

Wall Street pays a huge amount of attention to the price movements of the S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC). If stocks are in a bull market, everyone wants to know when the next bear market will arrive. If there’s a bear market, everyone keeps an eye out for the sign that the next bull market…

The stock market is in a tricky place right now, and investors would be wise to start preparing for volatility.

As of this writing (Sept. 8), shares of Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) trade around $1,017. This represents a 19% drop from their peak back in June. A drawdown of this magnitude should not be unexpected after a stock has a vertical year of the type that Micron just experienced.

Winnie the Pooh probably isn’t the investment guru that first comes to mind when you think about Wall Street. And yet he has offered some pretty sage investing advice: “Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.” The history of investing over the past 50 years very clearly shows that this fictional, honey-loving…