High-tech stocks have become the most popular investment destination after a month's hiatus. In four weeks, international investors poured almost $20bn in funds focused on this segment of the stock market. According to a report by Bank of America (incorporating data from Emerging Portfolio Fund Research), international investors invested $5.1 billion in funds related to high-tech stocks during...

China has unveiled new online lending rules that are tightening conditions for fintech companies. The changes will affect Jack Ma's Ant Group business and seriously affect the company's market valuation, experts say. The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission has announced new rules for the online lending market. From 2022, Chinese online platforms that partner with banks to lend to...

Saudi Arabia plans to increase oil production in the coming months as oil prices are rising, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing sources. In early January, Saudi Arabia announced a decision to cut oil production in February and March by 1 million barrels per day. According to the WSJ, it is set to announce the changes at the next OPEC + meeting in March. At the same time, it is not about a...

According to the FT calculations, since the beginning of the year the average daily turnover of shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) was about $25 billion, four times that of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) over the same period. Analysts explain it with the fact that trading volume in Hong Kong increased markedly at the start of the year due to the ongoing recovery of business activity...

"The JPMorgan Barometer", which assesses stock market dynamics, showed the highest level of investor carelessness since the dot-com crash. As long as investors are driven by greed rather than fear, the bank's strategists do not expect a significant pullback in the rally. JPMorgan's investor complacency index, which is based on valuations, position sizes and stock market price momentum, is near...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange Nikkei 225 index, which reflects the dynamics of stock prices of Japan's leading companies, climbed above 30,000 points for the first time in more than 30 years. The exchange index TOPIX, which is calculated as weighted average capitalization of 538 Japanese companies, reached 1943.12 points (+0.48%). The largest company outside the banking sector in 1990 was an energy...

The global freelancing market will nearly double to $13.8 trillion by 2025, according to a PwC report. This forecast is based on both the company's own data and information collected by various organizations. Currently, the global market is worth $6.54 trillion, of which the majority ($3.76 trillion) accounts for freelancers, $1.13 trillion -  for seasonal workers and $ 705 billion – for...

Buffett's favourite indicator, which predicted the collapse of the dot-com bubble, has surpassed its peak in the early 2000s and set a new high. The indicator recently surpassed 200 per cent, the point at which investors are, in Buffett's words, already "playing with fire". The so-called Buffett indicator, which the founder of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett called the best indicator to measure...

The post-pandemic beauty industry will experience the same boom that it did after the Spanish flu in the 1920s, says L'Oréal, a major cosmetics manufacturer. The French company bases its faith in the industry's recovery on its year-end sales, which showed better-than-expected growth. The world's largest cosmetics manufacturer L'Oréal expects the beauty market to boom after the pandemic, as it did...