August 4, 2020
Great expectations: Why hopes for an earnings recovery look too high
Most companies have been beating analysts’ expectations. But that’s because those expectations were set extremely low. As the scale of the Covid crisis became clear, analysts slashed their profit expectations with unprecedented vigour. In some weeks, the ratio of profit downgrades to upgrades exceeded that of the 2008 financial crisis. So far, most disappointments have come from energy, consumer discretionary and financials.
July 26, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic: The cybercrime gold rush of 2020
The researchers on the Unit 42 threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks are closely tracking a plethora of COVID-19-themed cyber-attacks that have emerged around the world over the past few months. Since the beginning of this year, we’ve identified more than 40,000 newly registered websites, using a coronavirus-related name, which we’d classify as “high-risk” sites due to the scams and malware being pushed onto unsuspecting consumers.
