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Substantial presence Rev. Proc. is a reminder of the need for change-in-circumstance processes. How can it be used to help determine the tax status of a non-resident alien (NRA) who has remained in the U.S. because of circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?

Crises such as COVID-19 can create significant levels of market volatility. Combined with the often-breakneck speed and volume of incoming information, this volatility can create challenges in wealth management. However, understanding the way markets react to events and sentiment can keep wealth managers a step ahead and help to generate new ideas for their clients.

It goes without saying that the modern landscape of business is one that has evolved to become more hinged on technological influence than ever. This much is certain. Of course, this is to be expected, considering the fact that the world around us grows more digitally inclined every day. We have built and driven and encouraged this modern era into existence, and so now that it is finally here, it becomes less of a question about how we got to this point, and more a proclamation of the necessary steps to take it to the next level. Today, more than ever, good business is about efficiency. And at the core of this modern iteration of the professional landscape is the ever-evolving shift of technological influence and how that influence is powering forward the modern notion of what it means to be successful today.

Central banks and governments have flooded the markets with liquidity to counteract the economic turmoil of COVID-19, but what has been the impact on the gold price? After initially falling, the gold price recovered. However, this surge in demand was observed mainly in the U.S. and Europe. The prospects for gold remain unclear. On the one hand, the worst effects of COVID-19 may blow over and the gold price could lower. However, on the other, should the global economy deteriorate, investors may turn increasingly towards gold in the search for yield.

Roger Hirst and Luiz Braga, Refinitiv’s Director of Sales in Latin America, talk about how investors are adapting to the volatility in the Brazilian markets. Are new young investors the light at the end of the tunnel for the Brazilian economy?   

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It is well established that machine learning models perform better with well-curated large scale data. However, collecting and curating is one of the biggest challenges right now. There are billion-dollar companies like Scale.ai who set up their shop with the sole purpose to annotate data. The whole data collection process is so tedious that it has become profitable for few. But, we are still talking about what happens before data arrives at an ML pipeline. Noise can creep into high-quality datasets too.

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Access a cloud-hosted development environment for Python scripting, enabling you to leverage the Refinitiv Data Platform APIs to rapidly build and deploy models, apps and analytics that fit your workflow needs.

By now, most of us are very familiar with seeing COVID-19 spread maps on TV and the internet. The maps identify hot spots throughout the world and report the state of the virus state by state in the US. 

A Refinitiv FX survey asked more than 1,000 clients from 50 countries about the impact of COVID-19 on forex trading, including their biggest challenges, favored execution methods, and their experiences working in a virtual office environment.

Business fundamentals drive investment cases, but deal making depends on softer factors: People, connections, collaboration, sentiment and confidence. All of these factors have been altered by COVID-19 and the lockdown. In such an environment, how can you keep the competitive edge?

Python is becoming a more popular programming language across the financial services industry because it is relatively easy to code. However, it is slow compared with other languages. In this guest blog, Saeed Amen, a quant and co-author of The Book of Alternative Data, explores approaches that you can adopt to speed up your Python code.