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July 14, 2022

U.S. IPO Activity Drops Dramatically in the First Half of 2022

Following 2021’s record-setting pace of initial public offerings (IPOs) priced on U.S. exchanges, IPO activity dropped sharply in...

By Sara B. Potter, CFA | Companies and Markets

July 13, 2022

FactSet's Most Popular Search Terms: Q2 2022

We have compiled the most popular search themes on FactSet over the last 90 days, along with the top U.S. sectors associated with...

By FactSet Insight | Companies and Markets

July 6, 2022

MENA Reversion: The Roots of Current and Future Trends in Emerging Markets

The recent break in the years-long trend of the “everything rally” means that investors will need to look to different markets,...

By Edward McCormick | Companies and Markets

June 29, 2022

Global Fixed Income Markets: Highway to the Danger Zone?

Linking memorable quotes and moments from the original Top Gun movie to global fixed income markets in 2022.

By Pat Reilly | Companies and Markets

June 28, 2022

Stress Testing the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Here we show how stress testing a portfolio or benchmark can highlight the relative exposures to exogenous events.

By Raul Diaz de Cerio, CFA | Companies and Markets

June 27, 2022

IPOs and SPACs Come Full Circle as Liquidity Dries

Capital markets are much softer versus a year ago, as the number of IPOs and SPACs is down sharply.

By Christine Short | Companies and Markets

June 23, 2022

We used Euclidean distance to identify companies with similar geographic footprints, developing a high-performing pairs trading...

By Hiroki Miyahara | Companies and Markets

June 15, 2022

Uncovering Value in Emerging Market FX Markets

Investors can combine macroeconomic assumptions with data science techniques and economic estimates to measure EM FX over- and...

By Emil Margaritov | Companies and Markets

June 7, 2022

The Evolution of Fixed Income Attribution: A New Age

As global central banks unwind pandemic era support and move away from low or negative policy rates, fixed-income attribution has...

By Pat Reilly | Companies and Markets

June 1, 2022

Making Sense of Contrary Indicators in the Developed Credit Market

We provide a counter examination of the extended credit market to elaborate on the demand trends in that sector over the past...

By Edward McCormick | Companies and Markets

May 12, 2022

Is SOFR Superseding LIBOR as the Chosen One in the Bond Market?

While SOFR debt issues are increasing, the new issues show a different landscape from the LIBOR ones, which may imply the future...

By Yudi Bai | Companies and Markets

May 5, 2022

‘Tis the Season for Shareholder Meetings

Springtime brings about a cadence in corporate events: conferences in March, Q1 earnings season, and then shareholder meetings.

By Christine Short | Companies and Markets

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