Most of those losses, well above the 10-year annual average of $79 billion, came from natural disasters.
Private equity technology acquisitions have already blown through a quarterly record in 2021.
Carrick Lane will pursue put-writing strategies to take advantage of the volatility-risk premium.
Only two companies with at least $50 million of liabilities sought protection from creditors in the U.S. last week.
They added 1% to the aggregate stock market valuation in the second quarter of 2020 and 20% to the value of small cap shares.
Equities in developed markets have rallied after last year's slump, fueled by expectations of a rapid economic recovery.
Whether value's rise is sustainable is one of the biggest questions in global stock investing.
Some of the optimism is probably stimulus driven.
Bill Hwang and Archegos Capital Management are at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time.
It's possible that old valuation metrics no longer hold true when a pandemic has harmed markets.
The CDC's alarm comes as nearly 150 million vaccination shots have been given to Americans.
As Washington debates a massive infrastructure spending bill, bonds have hit a lull.
The former Treasury secretary warned that inflation can increase quickly.
The gauge for global consumer discretionary shares is expected to return 17% over the next 12 months, according to Bloomberg.
Money managers are betting that vaccine rollouts in the U.K. and U.S. will allow a return to normal life by the summer.
While Asian hubs like Hong Kong had fewer infections, they've also had fewer vaccine injections.
Visa is using USD Coin to settle transactions over Ethereum, with the help of Crypto.com and a digital-asset bank.
Justice Democrats want $2 trillion in climate change initiatives alone.
So far, the wave of defaults expected from the Covid-19 outbreak has not occurred.
Americans earned an additional $1.1 trillion last year thanks to stimulus checks and government aid.