Equities

Jan 26, 2024 | equities.com | Jeff Kagan

Discover: Most indexes of U.S. stocks are capitalization weighted, meaning the biggest companies have the most outsize effect on the indexes. But there are alternative investments methods that you can take advantage of to mitigate the risk that one or more of the big companies will default: Equal weighting, factor-based weighting or geographical-based exposure. Inspire: The goal of net zero carbon by 2050 is ambitious.

Jan 19, 2024 | equities.com | Galina Hale

Discover: The free market, in theory, may punish companies that discriminate. Still, the market is powerless when consumers are the ones who value discrimination. During the years of lunch-counter sit-ins, business owners worried that serving Black customers would alienate racist white customers, and that the losses from white consumers could outweigh the gains from serving Black customers.

Jan 17, 2024 | equities.com | Chuck Jaffe

Jan 12, 2024 | equities.com | Chuck Jaffe

Jan 12, 2024 | equities.com | Jeff Kagan

As more Americans embrace electric vehicles, automakers and the federal government are racing to secure the materials needed to build EV batteries, including by pouring billions of dollars into battery recycling. Today, recyclers are focused on recovering valuable metals like nickel and cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries.