Risk aversion is a fundamental trait shaping how individuals, firms and policymakers respond to uncertain outcomes. It encapsulates the preference for certain outcomes over gambles with equivalent ...

Aversion. By Daniela Sabin Hathorn, senior market analyst at Capital Market sentiment is swinging wildly this week, reflecting a clash of narratives that has left investors st ...

Risk aversion persists in October, but sentiment improves from September due to hopes for interest rate cuts and a better macro outlook. Central bank policy boosts confidence, with the highest ...

The stock market’s sharp rally after its April swoon has flipped one measure of animal spirits on its head. A risk-on/risk-off gauge tracking investor sentiment, created by analytics group Duality ...

Bitcoin fell to an almost seven-month low following a tech-led selloff in U.S. stocks overnight. Risk aversion intensified amid concerns about lofty valuations of AI-related stocks and ahead of key ...

Bitcoin retail activity is mimicking the BTC price run to all-time highs after months of stalemate, new data suggests. In one of its latest Quicktake blog posts on Oct. 21, onchain analytics platform ...

Risk aversion, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in recent decades, is slamming Japan’s usually staid corporate bond market as climbing yields and the yen’s plunge to a 20-year low limit debt sales ...

Human beings differ in how much risk they will accept. Thus, as an analyst I quoted in a recent column concluded, Russian President Vladimir Putin “was too risk-acceptant” in invading Ukraine and ...

The UK government said Britain’s antitrust watchdog should be “less risk averse,” as it continues to put pressure on the country’s regulators to help spur economic growth. Business Secretary Jonathan ...