Stocks gained ground on Wall Street following several upbeat economic updates and a steady flow of quarterly reports from U.S. companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Non-traditional indexes can provide investors with an expanded set of investment opportunities -- but they can also create additional complexities and risks. Funds that track market indexes have ...

NEW YORK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - MSCI said on Thursday it will add 42 securities and delete 56 from its widely followed ACWI equity index (.MIWD00000PUS), opens new tab. All changes will be made as of the ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MSCI Inc. announced the results of the August 2025 Index Review for the MSCI Equity Indexes. All changes will be implemented as of the close of August 26, 2025. MSCI Global ...

While SQL was a serious top 10 player when the index began in 2001, it was taken from the list after someone noted in 2004 that SQL was not a programming language. In 2018, it was pointed out that SQL ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Cryptographic hash functions secure data by providing a unique fixed-length output for each input. These functions are essential in blockchain for data integrity and secure transactions. Understanding ...

Suppose you wanted to construct a new index to track the US stock market. What would you use as a model? The Dow Jones Industrial Average might be an option, but it’s hardly representative of the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.