Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar sells $513k in company stock

Some say traders who gravitate toward these products see big swings in the underlying stocks as a feature, not a bug.

The MoneyWeek ETF portfolio saw its annual rebalancing at the beginning of April, as the Middle East crisis raged. We cut a bond position that was stale and superfluous, and held the cash to reinvest once the outlook was clearer. This week, I set out to write that promised update – only to see the…

Key insight: The debts of a wealthy art collector and real estate mogul have opened an opportunity for Oklahoma’s Bank7 to acquire Century Bank of New Mexico. Supporting data: Bank7 has offered to pay $68 million for a 71% stake in the Santa Fe lender. Expert quote: “I think it’s a very compelling opportunity for…

Wealth growth ran strongest in Europe, the Middle East and Africa at 17.5 percent, helped by a weaker dollar, CTV News reported, followed by the Americas at 8.5 percent and Asia-Pacific at 5.9 percent.   North America led all regions at roughly US$660,000 per adult, BNN Bloomberg reported, ahead of Australia and New Zealand at US$590,000 and Western…

Exposure to the artificial-intelligence boom has become virtually impossible for investors to avoid. The theme hasn’t just cornered the stock market. It has systematically swallowed up corporate credit and venture capital, too.

The government on Wednesday rolled out the upgraded Centralised IT Enabled Services (CITES 2.01) platform for the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), migrating about 340 million member accounts from over 120 decentralised databases to a unified national system.   The upgraded platform is expected to significantly improve claim processing, service delivery and member…