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23 August 2022 : ESG ratings and the Tesla case
Tesla, Inc. is a multinational company founded by renowned entrepreneur Elon Musk and specializing in the production of electric vehicles. Its mission is ‘to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy' and, therefore, the reduction of [...]
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16 August 2022 : ESG and sustainable finance. What do these initials mean?
ESG. If you search Google for this acronym, you will get a whopping 201 million results (!): everybody talks about it, but maybe not everybody knows what it is really about. Literally, ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. Environmental, [...]
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11 February 2022 : Stock market, stormy weather on the way from overseas? This is a good time to remember a few basic rules for prudent investing
A big chill hit the American stock markets in January. The S&P 500, the index of the largest American companies, closed out the month down by 5.3 per cent, its worst performance since March 2020. The NASDAQ Composite Index, representative of the tech [...]
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31 December 2021 : Year 2022 is here. Happy birthday, Euro!
On 1 January 2002 we began to carry in our pockets a brand new currency. Do you remember? We got into the habit of converting the prices newly expressed in euros into their lira equivalents; some of us did it by rounding ('a euro is more or less 2,000 [...]
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13 February 2024 : Financial literacy: what does the gender gap stem from?
In 2023, the Bank of Italy conducted a survey on the level of financial culture of the Italian population, as part of an international initiative promoted by the OECD. Like the previous initiatives of 2017 and 2020, the survey assesses financial literacy [...]
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30 March 2023 : Interest rates rise again in March (as announced by the ECB)
The European Central Bank (ECB) had already announced that it would raise its key interest rates by an additional 0.50 per cent in its meeting on 16 March. And so it did, in line with its determination to ensure the timely return of inflation to the 2 [...]
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17 March 2023 : Deposit protection in five questions
An essential component of the safety net that has been set in place for the stability of the Italian financial system are the two bank deposit guarantee schemes, the Interbank Deposit Protection Fund (FITD) and the Deposit Guarantee Fund. These schemes [...]
