Tag: Market
Why the global cocoa market is melting down
BARRY CALLEBAUT, the world’s largest maker of bulk chocolate, is full of beans. Its share price has jumped by 20% since April, when...
Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Hedge funds take great pains to hide their inner workings. So a recent court case in which Jane Street sued two former employees...
China’s state is eating the private property market
At an upmarket housing development in Wuhan, sales agents want to make clear that their state-owned firm has severed all its ties to...
Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?
Two years ago, pretty much everyone agreed that one of the great bubbles was bursting. An era of rock-bottom interest rates was coming...
An economist’s guide to the luxury-handbag market
It is plagued by counterfeits—and information asymmetries
Are passive funds to blame for market mania?
The year is 2034. America’s “magnificent seven” firms make up almost the entirety of the country’s stockmarket. For Jensen Huang, the boss of...
The five biggest market surprises of 2023
Financial markets will always produce surprises. After all, by the time a consensus has formed, people will have bought or sold accordingly. The...
Can the carbon-offset market be saved?
“As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs,” ran an early advertising jingle attributed to Johann Tetzel,...
