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Aníbal Linhares Financial Markets Beatriz Pereira Financial Markets The price of buying or renting a house has been skyrocketing in developed countries in recent decades. Between 1994 and 2019, the average price of transacted houses in Portugal rose 228.3% after inflation, whereas the real wage only rose 26.3%, with other Western countries following a similar […]

Rodrigo Neto Financial Markets  Gonçalo Moutinho Financial Markets António Tunico Financial Markets João Menezes Financial Markets In recent years, blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative force in various industries, with the financial sector at the forefront of its adoption. Blockchain, often referred to as a distributed ledger technology (DLT), is a decentralized and transparent

Eduardo Vieira Financial Markets André Silva Financial Markets Raquel Silva Financial Markets  Gonçalo Eira Financial Markets Evergrande Group was founded in 1996 by Xu Jiayin, a businessman from Hunan province in China. The company started as a small property developer in Guangzhou, but it quickly grew into one of China’s largest real estate developers. In

Eduardo Vieira Financial Markets Eduardo Vieira Financial Markets Gonçalo Silva Financial Markets  Gonçalo Eira Financial Markets The metaverse has been a hot topic ever since Facebook rebranded to Meta and announced it would become its top priority, with significant company funds being directed toward the project. Since then, several other companies have also committed to

Gonçalo Moutinho Financial Markets  Gonçalo Moutinho Financial Markets António Tunico Financial Markets António Pedro Tunico Financial Markets The emergence of the Internet and online trading platforms during the 1990s and 2000s made it easier than ever before to buy and sell securities from the convenience of a personal device. The proliferation of brokerage accounts with

Raquel Dias Financial Markets  Francisco Sá Financial Markets Raquel Dias Financial Markets  Francisco Sá Financial Markets Japan’s economy was once one of the largest and most developed economies in the world. After World War II, Japan experienced a period of rapid economic growth known as the “Japanese economic miracle,” during which its economy grew at

Luísa Maitto Financial Markets  Pedro Santos Financial Markets Luísa Maitto Financial Markets  Pedro Santos Financial Markets The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the biggest military alliance in the world, gathering a total of 30 countries. It was founded in 1949, but it still remains as relevant today as it was in the wake of

Inês Esteves Financial Markets  Miguel Melo Financial Markets Inês Esteves Financial Markets  Miguel Melo Financial Markets Globalization, along with its socioeconomic and environmental effects, began reshaping our society centuries ago; but the changes in the world’s economic system are faster and more abrupt than we have ever seen before. Combining consumers’ high demand, scarcity of

“The Bird is Freed”   João Victor BousfieldExternal Relations João Victor BousfieldExternal Relations “The bird is freed”. That’s how Twitter dawned on October 28, 2022 with the news that billionaire, Elon Musk had acquired the social network through his subsidiary “X Holdings”…I am sure that we all remember when this happened? After months of legal

Diogo Monteiro Financial Markets Diogo Monteiro Financial Markets Starting by the fall in stock prices and culminating with the stock market crash in October 1929, “The Great Depression”, was the worst economic period in US and world history characterised by high unemployment rates, deflation, a breakdown of international trade, wholesale prices and industrial production. Some