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Alumni Update: October 2020

 


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Registration is now open for the 11th Annual Supply Chain Forum presented by the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business. The free virtual event will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. daily on March 16-17. 


Professor Meike Eilert recently shared her insights with WalletHub regarding travelers car insurance. Read on WalletHub.com.

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Describing the many ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic affected Kentucky’s economy, the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) — the applied economic research branch of the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky — released its 49th Kentucky Annual Economic Report today.


Meike Eilert recently contributed to a feature on Allfactors.com in which marketing experts share 2021 industry predictions.


Currency trader and finance lecturer Peter Trager told the Courier-Journal that the GameStop surge was "not surprising because of the 'new guard' of technologically savvy millennial investors and the speed at which information travels." Observing how the GameStop stock traded Thursday — its close was down roughly 44 percent compared with Wednesday's — Trager said he thinks the stock is starting to "run out of steam," particularly as more short sellers are squeezed out.


On Jan. 28, David Sovich discussed his paper, "State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence From Administrative Payroll Data" on Cavuto: Coast to Coast on Fox Business. The paper is joint work with Radha Gopalan and Bart Hamilton (Washington University), and Ankit Kalda (Indiana University). 


LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — One day after buy orders were halted, trading of GameStop Corp. (GME) resumed on Jan. 29, and it was just as volatile as ever, with swings of roughly two hundred points in both directions between the opening and closing bells. The stock price went from a 52-week low of $2.80 per share back in April to a high of $438.00 achieved during trading earlier this week. So how did this happen, virtually overnight?