International financial markets are always on the move. Currently, it is a bundle of threatening news that causes unrest. These include the war against Ukraine, soaring energy prices in particular, a return to inflation rates that many experts did not think possible, a readjustment of the monetary policy of leading central banks, economies weakened by […]

Wie erfolgreich soziale Medien bei der Entfesselung von Emotionen und in der Folge auch von Investitionen sein können, zeigten im Januar 2021 die Ereignisse rund um die Aktien des Videospielehändlers GameStop Corp. aus Dallas und anderer sogenannter Meme Stocks. Darunter versteht man Wertpapiere, die ihre Popularität v.a. sozialen Medien verdanken. Aber was ist der Schlüssel […]

Since its first introduction by Nakamoto (2008), Bitcoin has grown to become the lead- ing peer-to-peer blockchain-based cryptocurrency in the world by market capitalisation. With the increasing amount of capital invested in Bitcoin, the effort to predict the price of the currency increased as well (Corbet, Lucey, Urquhart, & Yarovaya, 2019). Due to the novelty […]

Most people will not hesitate to put an equation sign between Social media success and business success. After all, a big social media footprint seems to be a key requirement for the success of the business as a whole. In what follows, we challenge this notion on the basis of data sourced by Stockpulse. Informed […]