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September Milwaukee events preview: Night Market, reggae and more

September Milwaukee events preview: Night Market, reggae and more

September 21 will be the final Milwaukee Night Market of 2022.

“We have seen tremendous crowds this summer, estimating 30,000 people attending each night during the 5-hour event,” said Megan Kujaw, Westown Association Marketing & Events Director. 

Kujaw said the goal of the event “is to create a unique, fun and safe place for individuals of all ages and backgrounds to experience Milwaukee, as well as promote and support small businesses and local entrepreneurs.” She added that her favorite part of the event is “the positive energy and diversity of the event. From the vendors and food, to the performances and the attendees, it really is a place for people of all ages, places and backgrounds to come and celebrate our city. I also really love seeing everyone dancing at the main intersection throughout the night. One minute the whole crowd is learning how to do the Cupid Shuffle and the next you have young kids in the middle of a dance circle just having the best time with everyone cheering them on.”

The event, held once a month from June through September, features nearly 100 vendors of food, beverage, apparel, art, jewelry and more, as well as entertainment. The event runs from 5 to 10 pm Wednesday, September 21 on West Wisconsin Avenue between Second Street and Vel R. Phillips Avenue.

The final event of 2022 is also College Night, with special activities for new and prospective students at Milwaukee’s colleges and universities.

The Night Market  was first created in 2014 by NEWaukee, a marketing agency that specializes in community engagement.  The Westown Association took over the event in 2021.

September Milwaukee events

The Great Riverwest Fall Rummage Sale & Flea Market | 9 am – 5 pm, Saturday, September 10 | 722 E. Burleigh St Milwaukee WI 53212

Comedian Coca Brown | Saturday, September 10 |  The Northern Lights Theater- Milwaukee

King Solomon’s Reggae Reunion show at TosaFest | 8:30 pm, Saturday, September 10 |7617 W State Street, Wauwatosa

Milwaukee Night Market | 5-10 pm, Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | 275 W. Wisconsin Ave. 

YOGA by a Black man for Black men | 6-7 pm, various dates in August through November | Everyday Studio MKE, 2625 S. Greeley St., Unit 335

 

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Today’s Stock Market News & Events: 8/26/2022 – Schaeffer’s Investment Research

Stock Price Tickers, Stock Trading, Stock Market, Stocks to BUy
Stock Price Tickers, Stock Trading, Stock Market, Stocks to BUy

Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak at Jackson Hole today

Today the monthly and year-over-year PCE price index and core PCE price index are on tap. Traders also will be sifting through real disposable incomes, real consumer spending, nominal personal incomes, and nominal consumer spending data, as well as advance trade in goods. Lastly, the University of Michigan (UM) will release its final consumer sentiment index, and five-year inflation expectations.

The following public company is slated to release corporate earnings today, August 26:

JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE:JKS — $58.65) engages in the design, development, production, and marketing of photovoltaic products. JinkoSolar will report its Q2 earnings of 2022 before the bell today.

Looking ahead to next week, a handful of Federal Reserve officials will be offering remarks on the state of the economy. There will also be no shortage of economic indicators to unpack, as investors kick off September with a huge batch of manufacturing data.

Next week’s earnings docket includes reports from Baidu (BIDU), Best Buy (BBY), Big Lots (BIG), Broadcom (AVGO), C3.ai (AI), Campbell Soup (CPB), Chewy (CHWY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), HP (HPQ), lululemon athletica (LULU), Ollie’s Bargain Outlets (OLLI), Signet Jewelers (SIG), and Weibo (WB)

All economic dates listed here are tentative and subject to change.

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Why insurance for ‘black-swan’ events isn’t paying off in this bear market

Why insurance for 'black-swan' events isn't paying off in this bear market

The bear market on Wall Street is not a “black swan.” This is important is for semantic clarity, if nothing else. The term “black swan” has been thrown around with such abandon in recent months that it’s in danger of losing all meaning.

There’s a more important reason not call this bear market a black swan: it creates unrealistic expectations about what can be achieved with black-swan protection strategies. Those strategies hedge against certain rare events, but not everything bad that can happen in the stock market.

The black swan theory has a long history in philosophy and mathematics, but its use in the investment arena traces to the work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor of risk engineering at New York University. Taleb wrote a book in 2007 entitled “Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” in which he defines a black swan as an extremely rare and sudden event that has very severe consequences.

A key aspect of black-swan events, Taleb argued, is that they are unpredictable. This unpredictability means that, in order to protect yourself, you must always hedge your portfolio against the worst. That hedge will detract from your return in most years, but pay off in a big way in the event of a black swan.

A good analogy is to fire insurance on your house. House fires are extremely rare, but you still buy insurance against the possibility and are more than willing to pay your insurance premium.

Black-swan insurance in the investment arena pursues two general approaches. The first is to be as conservative as possible with almost all of your portfolio and extremely aggressive with the small remainder. The second is to couple your normal equity portfolio with an aggressive hedge — such as with deep out-of-the-money puts.

Neither of these strategies has offered complete protection against the current bear market, as you can see in the chart below. The three strategies listed in the chart are:

  • Swan Hedged Equity U.S. Large Cap ETF
    HEGD,
    -0.18%    ,
    which invests more than 90% of its portfolio in large-cap stocks and hedges with put options.

  • Amplify BlackSwan Growth &Treasury Core ETF
    SWAN,
    -0.44%    ,
    which invests 90% in U.S. Treasurys and 10% in S&P long-dated call options.

  • S&P 500
    SPX,
    -0.34%
    fund (96.67%) plus long-dated out-of-the money puts (3.33%). This specific strategy was derived by Michael Edesess, an adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in an attempt to replicate the reported returns of a hedge fund (whose strategy is proprietary) with which Taleb is associated.

Clearly, all three approaches’ year-to-date losses are in the double-digits, with the Amplify BlackSwan ETF actually losing more than the S&P 500 itself.

These otherwise disappointing returns are not necessarily a criticism. If this year’s bear market is not a black swan event, then it doesn’t seem fair to criticize these offerings for failing to protect investors. For example, during the waterfall decline that accompanied the economic lockdowns at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is more appropriately classified as a black swan event, a portfolio that allocated 96.67% to the S&P 500 and 3.33% to deep out-of-the-money puts would have held its own or posted a small gain.

Hedging against more than black swans

Your comeback might be to suggest constructing portfolio hedges that insure against more than just black swan-like losses. But the cost of such hedges would be much greater than the insurance premium for protecting against a black swan. That cost could be so high, in fact, that you might decide it’s not worth it.

Consider fixed income annuities (FIAs), which allow you to participate in the stock market’s upside while guaranteeing that you never lose money. The “premium” you must pay for this insurance is that your participation rate — the share of the price-only gains that you earn — is often well-below 100%. Currently, for example, according to Adam Hyers of Hyers and Associates, a retirement-planning firm, an FIA benchmarked to the S&P 500 has a 30% participation rate — in effect setting its insurance premium to be 70% of the index’s gains in those years in which the stock market rises. 

Would you be willing to forfeit 70% of the S&P 500’s price-only gains in years the stock market rises, along with all dividend income, in order to avoid losses in those years in which the market falls? There’s no right or wrong answer. But you need to be aware of the magnitude of the insurance premium.

The chart above plots the calendar-year price-only returns of the S&P 500 since 1928. The red line shows what your return would have been since then — 3.7% annualized — if you were flat in years in which the index fell, and earned 30% of the index’s increase when it rose. That 3.7% annualized return is a lot less than the 10.0% annualized total return the stock market has produced over the past nine-plus decades.

I’m not suggesting that FIAs are never appropriate in certain circumstances. In an interview, Hyers told me that there are many different FIAs to choose, and some that are benchmarked to indexes other than the S&P 500 have higher participation rates than 30%. Indeed, he added in an email, “many of the [FIAs benchmarked to] proprietary indexes have… participation rates above 100%, so those are where larger gains are locked in.”

My point in discussing FIAs is instead to remind you that there is no free lunch. The more you want to insure against losses, the more upside potential you forfeit in the process. While it is possible to insure against a black swan event, such insurance won’t protect you from all losses.

Mark Hulbert is a regular contributor to MarketWatch. His Hulbert Ratings tracks invest/ment newsletters that pay a flat fee to be audited. He can be reached at mark@hulbertratings.com

More: Don’t fear the bear. It gives you chances to pick winning stocks and beat the market.

Also read:  ‘The stock market is not going to zero’: How this individual investor with 70 years of experience is trading the bear market

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Downtown Night Market in Great Falls will feature new active events

Downtown Night Market in Great Falls will feature new active events

GREAT FALLS — The Downtown Night Market is coming back to Central Avenue on Friday, July 15, 2022 – but with a special addition that is being tested by Get Fit Great Falls.

The event will run from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. along the 300 and 400 blocks of Central Avenue, and feature craft vendors, art demonstrations, food vendors, live music by Clint Reimann, and more.

For this month’s edition of the night market, Davidson Plaza – the space on Central Avenue with the Charlie Russell statue – is being converted into a space where people can come and enjoy and participate.

It is being done by Get Fit Great Galls and the Building Active Communities Initiative. They are partnering with the market to bring what they call an “active space” to the community.

Davidson Plaza in downtown Great Falls

(MTN) Davidson Plaza in downtown Great Falls

Kim Skornogoski is head of the initiative and says it’s a one-time event to test out and see how it is received.

She said it will include things such as a ping pong table, giant checkers, and even miniature ponies.

They want people to be able to have a connected space and another opportunity to be active and healthy.

“Starting around noon, we’ll have this space set up to be an active space for people to come use,” Skornogoski said. “If you look at it now or any other day, it’s a beautiful space, but not many people use it except if they’re walking somewhere else. It’s not one that people really come to. So the idea is to transform this space into something that that people will use and ideally use in an active way. We hope this idea can plant a seed.”

For more information about the event, click here or contact Pierce at kellie@downtowngreatfalls.net.

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Agricola Holiday Market – GlobalNews Events

Agricola Holiday Market - GlobalNews Events

Bring out your Holiday Cheer for the Agricola Street North by Night Market “Holiday” Edition! #NXNMRKT

Live Music, Beer Garden & warm Mulled Wine, Food Trucks, Local Artisans, Family Activities…and all around good time!

2022 Date: November 12, 2022

Where: Agricola St, Halifax

Make the market part of your holiday fun and check out the Agricola Streets great restaurants, bars and shops before heading over to the Market.

While you shop and enjoy the atmosphere of Halifax’s North End, make sure take plenty of pics and to hashtag #NXNMRKT!

For more information contact events@gonorthhalifax.com

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Event Management Platform Market Worth $60Bn by 2028 at 11.5% CAGR Led by Cloud-based Deployment (74.6% Market Share in 2021), Global Analysis (18+ Countries, 5 Key Regions, 50+ Companies) by The Insight Partners

Event Management Platform Market Worth $60Bn by 2028 at 11.5% CAGR Led by Cloud-based Deployment (74.6% Market Share in 2021), Global Analysis (18+ Countries, 5 Key Regions, 50+ Companies) by The Insight Partners

New York, July 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Insight Partners published latest research study on “Event Management Platform Market Forecast to 2028 – COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By Component [Hardware (Physical and Hybrid Check-in), Software, and Services (Professional Services, Managed Services)], Deployment (On Premise and Cloud-based), Application (Event Planning, Event Registration and Ticketing, Event Marketing, Content Management, Networking Management, Analytics and Reporting, Audience Management and Communication, Visitor Management, Venue Management, Virtual Lobby Management, and Others  ), End User (Trade Show Organizers, Event Management Agencies, Corporates, Academics, Organizations, Associations/Non-profitable Trusts/Government Bodies, and Others)”, based on component, the market is segmented into hardware, software, and services. The software segment led the market with the largest market share in 2021.

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Report Coverage Details
Market Size Value in US$ 31.23 Billion in 2022
Market Size Value by US$ 60.01 Billion by 2028
Growth rate CAGR of 11.5% from 2022 to 2028
Forecast Period 2022-2028
Base Year 2022
No. of Pages 174
No. Tables 153
No. of Charts & Figures 104
Historical data available Yes
Segments covered Component, Deployment, Application, and End User
Regional scope North America; Europe; Asia Pacific; Latin America; MEA
Country scope US, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Argentina
Report coverage Revenue forecast, company ranking, competitive landscape, growth factors, and trends

Event Management Platform Market: Competitive Landscape and Key Developments
ACTIVE Network, LLC; BigMarker; Aventri, Inc.; Bizzabo; Swapcard; Goldcast; WebEx Events; PheedLoop Inc.; Zuddl; and Airmeet are among the key players profiled during the study of the global event management platform market. In addition, several other essential market players were studied and analyzed to get a holistic view of the event management platform market and its ecosystem.

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In May 2022, ACTIVE Network and accesso entered into a strategic partnership to extend the reach of the company’s solutions to the ski industry. This partnership would allow ACTIVE Network to access the e-commerce ticketing suite of accesso, and the clients of accesso would get an option for real-time transport protocol (RTP).

In January 2022, Aventri merged with MeetingPlay, an innovative solution provider for in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. The new event software powerhouse would combine the strengths of both companies to offer a complete full-service solution for meetings and events.

The major stakeholders in the global event management platform market ecosystem include event management platform hardware/software/service providers, system integrators, and end users. With the rising demand for event management platform solutions for event planning, event registration and ticketing, event marketing, content management, networking management, analytics and reporting, audience engagement and communication, visitor management, venue management, virtual lobby management across the globe, the event management platform providers are also experiencing sustainable growth opportunities.

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The major end users of the event management platform market include trade show organizers, event management agencies, corporates, academic, organizations, associations/non-profitable trusts/government bodies, and others. Among end users, the event management agencies segment to have the highest share. Event management agencies help organizations develop and plan events for their clients. The events include creating effective invitations, managing registrations, organizing housing and travel preferences, collecting online payments, and viewing reports in actual time.

Event Management Platform Market: Application Segment Overview
Based on application, the market is segmented into event planning, event registration and ticketing, event marketing, content management, networking management, analytics and reporting, audience engagement and communication, visitor management, venue management, virtual lobby management, and others. The event planning segment led the event management platform market with the largest market share in 2021.

Companies are incorporating videos to create more digital experiences as audiences’ preference for on-demand viewing is growing. Virtually every marketer considers webinars a crucial component of their strategy and the most effective medium for generating quality sales leads. With webinars, companies from all industries are fast turning to digital-first interaction. According to the ON24 Webinar Benchmarks Report 2021, companies are rapidly transitioning to digital-first engagement with webinars. The findings are based on over ~2,000 businesses providing over ~100,000 digital experiences with ~100 participants utilizing ON24 in one of the most comprehensive data investigations of digital events in 2020.

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As per the data, the use of webinars climbed 162%, with attendance nearly quadrupling to over ~60 million people. Over ~61 million hours of material were consumed by audiences, representing ~300% growth. As the shift to digital platforms rises, webinars are becoming increasingly necessary in marketing and sales. In a follow-up poll to the benchmarks report, 99% of marketers think webinars are essential to their strategies, with 72% stating they directly influence pipeline and revenue. The benefits of webinars, such as audience analytics, engagement data, and buying signals, allow marketers to claim that 66% of sales teams prioritize webinar leads, making webinars the top digital channel for generating qualified leads and sales leads for 89% of respondents.

Using modern technologies, such as webinars, in the healthcare industry helps to continuously optimize the execution of care and streamline processes that support and enable efficient care delivery. Webinars can also help break down collaborative boundaries, allowing faster clinical discovery. Similarly, educational webinars and web conferencing technologies have recently received more attention. Students do not need to spend money on transportation or lodging to receive an education. Similarly, the educational institution does not need to make significant space or class size investments to accommodate new pupils. Thus, the growing use of webinars is driving the event management platform market growth.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on North America Event Management Platform Market:
The dramatic shift to virtual events created new challenges for event planners, such as rethinking plans and designs, managing remote speakers to deal with new technologies, and finding interesting ways of keeping people engaged. Moreover, the declining gross domestic product (GDP) of the region hampered the event management platform market growth. The COVID-19 crisis has drastically forced event planners to switch from in-person meetings to virtual meetings.

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The COVID-19 outbreak has slightly affected the event platform providers for conducting virtual events. However, the event management platform market is expected to foresee significant growth opportunities in the coming years owing to the rising demand for digital content and live streaming. Thus, the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the North American event management platform market is moderate.

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Event Management Software Market to 2027 – Global Analysis and Forecasts by Solution Type (Software, and Services); Application (Event Planning, Event Marketing, Venue and Ticket Management, Analytics and Reporting, and Others); End-User (Corporate, Government, Education, Media and Entertainment, and Others)

Virtual Event Software Market Forecast to 2028 – COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By Solution (Software and Services), Enterprise Size (SMEs, Large Enterprises), and End User (Trade Show Organizers, Event Management Agencies, Corporates, Academic Organizations, Others)

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SIEM Software Market Forecast to 2028 – COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By Deployment Type (Cloud, On-Premise); Solution Type (Log and Event Management, Patch Management, Firewall Security Management, Others); Vertical (BFSI, IT and Telecommunication, Hospitality, Educational Institutes, Government Offices, Energy and Utility, Retail, Others) and Geography

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Audience Intelligence Platform Market Forecast to 2028 – COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis by Deployment Type (On-Premises, Cloud); Application (Government, Retail and eCommerce, Healthcare and Life Sciences, BFSI, Transportation and Logistics, Telecom and IT, Manufacturing, Other) and Geography

Audience Analytics Market Forecast to 2028 – Covid-19 Impact and Global Analysis – Component (Solutions and Services); Application (Sales & Marketing, Customer Experience, and Competitive Analysis); End-user (BFSI, IT & Telecommunication, Retail, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Hospitality, and Government) and Geography

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Thursday Nite Market – GlobalNews Events

Thursday Nite Market - GlobalNews Events

The Thursday Nite Market is a carefully curated Artisan Market at Sparkles n’ Sawdust Studio: 5239 Blowers St. in Downtown Halifax.​ Enjoy shopping local every Thursday night beginning July 7th 2022! This event is free for the public to attend and is family-friendly! What can you expect? – 14 Vendors (no overlap in products) – In-studio boutique shopping – Friendly atmosphere – Food, Art, Crafts & More The Thursday Nite Market runs year round, with the exception of a brief winter closure (Dec 15th 2022 – March 15th 2023). For more information or to apply as a vendor, please visit our website: http://www.sparklesnsawdust.com Also, find us on Instagram @sparklesnsawdustmarkets

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Hog Market Update

Hog Market Update

Forward hog contract prices have been stable as of late.

Tyler Fulton is director of risk management with Hams Marketing Services.

“We’ve seen a fair amount of volatility day to day, but they haven’t been trending one direction or the other,” he said. “Whatever they seem to lose one day, they’ll regain the next day and it’s coming not just from a volatile pork complex but also the Canadian dollar is highly volatile as well and that has a direct influence on what forward prices are.”

Fulton says we’ve seen a lot of activity from producers hedging October all the way through the winter and it’s motivated by the fact that they’re exceptionally good forward prices as compared to normal cash market trends over that timeframe. He adds it’s also important to note that we’re looking at exceptionally high feed prices, noting margins aren’t great, but they’re still positive and have some room for a little bit of profitability. 

“It’s a big threat to the operation if you’re only looking at one side or the other in terms of feed versus the price of your output, which is hogs,” added Fulton.

Fulton says that the U.S. cash markets are seeing a lot of influence recently from stronger pork prices. In the last four weeks or so, we’ve seen a rising trend in pork prices with a little bit of variability across different cuts. He says this is a more typical trend that you would see at this time of year.

“Typically we’ve got hog numbers that are starting to moderate and we also start to see some stronger demand from grilling and so seeing some support in cash pork prices is pretty typical. Given that we have so much influence when producers actually get paid for their hogs, most contracts are referencing wholesale pork prices now. When you see those firmer wholesale pork prices happen it does move into the price for the hogs reflecting that right away.”

Earlier this spring we saw a counter-seasonal move of weakness. That seems to be behind us now and with a little bit tighter hog numbers and some good demand, Fulton is generally optimistic that the remainder of June and July should be okay.