December 2024

Weathering the Market: Why Climate Data Is the Future of Commodity Trading

The world of finance is developing very rapidly today. New technologies appear, and trading has become more sophisticated. Nevertheless, though weather changes have a critical influence on practically every aspect of our lives, and especially on commodity markets, they remain highly underused. Ignoring the full potential of weather data in financial decisions can cause traders

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The Year in Museums: Political Unrest on One Side and Major Gifts on the Other

In case you were distracted, there were a number of well-regarded art exhibitions that took place at museums around the country this year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York exhibited 160 works in a show of “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” while the Museum of Modern Art displayed 110 rarely seen drawings,

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The Attention Economy: Power, Profit and Privacy in the Digital Era

What is the most valuable commodity in the world today? It’s not oil, computing power for A.I. or Bitcoin. These are inert objects, meaningless without human attention to give them value. Attention, the most potent and sought-after resource, drives everything from demand for rare minerals to international trade policies. When you capture attention with something

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