Day three of the Locarno Film Festival StepIn 2020, moderated by Variety‘s Leo Barraclough and hosted by the Variety Streaming Room platform, brought professionals from various parts of the film festival and market sectors together for a panel on the Future of Film Festivals and Film Markets. Jérôme Paillard, executive […]
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Markets elsewhere in Asia were slightly less exuberant, with the Nikkei225 slipping back from three-week highs. To that end markets here in Europe have opened lower with profit-taking kicking in ahead of the peaks that we saw in June. While optimism of a v-shaped recovery still remains quite high it […]
It was one year ago that the terrifying free fall for the stock market suddenly ended, ushering in one of its greatest runs. On March 23, 2020, the S&P 500 fell 2.9%. In all, the index dropped nearly 34% in about a month, wiping out three years’ worth of gains […]
With all the attention AI Photo editing software has been getting lately, specifically Skylum’s Luminar AI, I felt compelled recently to share my own thoughts on the software and what I believe it means for the photography industry as a whole. I did so in a video on my YouTube […]
The major indices followed Monday’s raucous rally with a tamer, flatter Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.6% off its record high to 29,783, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped by a thin 0.2% to 11,899. But the relative calm belied a number of exciting developments over the past 24 hours. […]
Arena Investors specializes in investing in credit markets, scouring the globe for opportunities that meet return-versus-risk standards for its private debt funds. The firm’s approach is to “play offense,” avoiding investments that could be harmed by a 2008-style financial crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, and not investing in […]