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As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the energy products and services industry, including Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) and its peers.

The European Central Bank is ready to preserve financial stability in case of further market turmoil but the sector, including hedge funds, appears well prepared for the recent rout, ECB policymakers said on Wednesday. Since U.S. President Donald Trump announced a raft of tariffs last week, stocks have fallen sharply, the dollar has weakened and U.S. Treasuries sold off overnight, raising fears of escalating market turmoil that could drag the world into a financial crisis. "The Bank of France and the European Central Bank are fully mobilised to ensure the (euro zone) economy is well financed and (ensure) financial stability," French Central Bank chief Francois Villeroy de Galhau said.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is often grouped together with risk assets like growth stocks in the minds of careful investors. Under that logic, if there's a bear market for stocks, and the sentiment causes major players to flip to being risk-off from risk-on, Bitcoin is more likely to tumble than hold steady, just like other assets that are purchased for their upside potential rather than for their sturdiness. As you can see, Bitcoin lost a lot of its value throughout 2022, and then slowly started to grind up again in the following year.

Low supply concentration in this range may lead to heightened volatility.

Before getting into how Bitcoin could be a useful investment in the context of new tariffs in the U.S., it's necessary to learn a little bit about how tariffs tend to affect the economy. This means that the fiat currency held by consumers, like dollars, have less purchasing power as a result of tariffs. Unless consumers can mitigate the decline in their purchasing power by holding an asset that retains its purchasing power in fiat currency, that is.

(Bloomberg) -- Chinese stocks climbed for a second day, bucking a worldwide selloff, amid growing speculation that authorities will roll out stimulus to shield the economy from Donald Trump‘s tariffs.A closely watched gauge of Chinese stocks in Hong Kong ended 1.4% higher after sliding more than 4% earlier. The onshore CSI 300 Index closed up 1%.The moves came as investors shifted their attention to the likely response of Chinese authorities after US tariffs as high as 104% took effect Wednesday

(Bloomberg) -- The S&P 500 stock index has dropped to a level where long-term investors are starting to buy the dip, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner John Flood.The US stock index is flirting with bear market levels after plunging nearly 19% since its February peak. The benchmark closed below the 5,000 level for the first time in nearly a year on Tuesday after the US administration implemented reciprocal tariffs on trading partners, boosting recession risk. “From my conversations wi

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Toymaker Lego has opened a new factory in southern Vietnam, it said on Wednesday, as the company aims for long-term growth in the Asia Pacific region and to move production closer to its consumers. Lego has invested $1 billion in the project, part of its decade-old strategy of placing production facilities close to key markets which has previously helped rein in costs and shield it from external factors and supply chain disruptions. The Danish family-owned company said it would also open a regional distribution centre in Vietnam later this year, its second in Asia, to increase flexibility and agility in its supply chain network.

Kalshi's fight with Nevada is a question of federalism, and the language of the Commodities Exchange Act (CEA) is clearly in its favor says crypto attorney Aaron Brogan.

JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI (Reuters) -International debt issued by small emerging economies generally viewed as riskier by investors suffered another sharp drop on Wednesday, raising concerns about the countries' ability to borrow in future as a growing trade war blasted U.S. markets. U.S. Treasuries, the bedrock of the global financial system and benchmark for emerging market bonds, were hit by fresh selling as President Donald Trump's eye-watering 104% tariffs on China took effect, and Beijing retaliated with 84% duties. Across emerging markets, longer-dated bonds issued by so-called frontier economies suffered some of the heftiest falls, with Pakistan's longer-dated dollar-denominated bonds dropping around 5 cents to be bid around the 70-cent threshold where debt is seen as distressed, Tradeweb data showed.