Why Investors Might Consider Commodity ETFs

Investors can effectively diversify traditional portfolios with commodities exchange traded funds. In the recent webcast, Industry Experts on Opportunities in Today’s Biggest Commodities , Helima Croft, Managing Director, Head of Global Commodity Strategy and MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets, outlined some of the current energy market dynamics, with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, or OPEC+, beginning to ease cuts.

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BrandPost: How IT leaders can empower a digital-savvy workforce

At the top of this year’s priorities, CIOs and IT leaders should support hybrid working and drive digital, cross-functional collaboration. With a workforce that’s been highly productive over the last year while working remotely, digitally-savvy employees are ready to take their engagement to an even higher level of innovation, cooperation, and effectiveness.

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Five big ideas for reinventing IT

Driven by a need to meet rapidly evolving business requirements, CIOs find themselves writing a new playbook, one focused on agility, overcoming old habits and technical debt, reskilling the workforce, and even reshaping the IT mandate.

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Amid a Hot Summer, Water ETFs Are Hydrating Investment Portfolios

California is mired in a drought, the likes of which some experts say hasn’t been seen in centuries. That’s just one example, but it underscores the potential of water equities and their related exchange traded funds. On Wednesday, both the Invesco Global Water Portfolio (NASDAQ: PIO) and the Invesco Water Resources ETF (PHO) hit all-time highs.

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サブウェイ店舗でAIが表情・視線を基にメニュー提案、OKIがAI用いた感情推定技術を活用した提案型注文システムの実証実験

OKI (沖電気工業)と 日本サブウェイ (サブウェイ)は8月2日、OKIの「AIを用いた感情推定技術」(感情AI技術)を活用した「提案型注文システム」の実証実験を開始したと発表した。場所はサブウェイ渋谷桜丘店。検証期間は2021年8月6日まで。同実証実験では、注文客の興味・関心が高そうな「オススメ」メニューを提案して注文時の迷いを軽減する機能の有効性と、店舗における接客業務の効率化、さらにウィズコロナ時代に求められる非対面・非接触操作による注文の有用性を検証する。

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