Essay Draft: How COVID-19 and Interest Rates affect Insurance Companies

Topic: How COVID-19 and Interest Rates affect Insurance Companies: The pandemic has caused much damage to not only the medical world, but the financial world as well. Economies across the world have faced several challenges since the start of the pandemic and many are only beginning to recover now. Insurance companies have changed so much in such a short period of time in that they have slashed the amounts they are willing to cover. Each student will prepare an argumentative financial markets research paper, developed with appropriate evidence drawn from primary and secondary source material that demonstrates understanding and fluency in key course topics. The research paper topic must explore a problem, question or issue bearing on U.S. financial markets and institutions that is historically significant or currently important. Primary business sources must be used. Here is a recommended list of trade publications that are acceptable (this is not an inclusive list). Bloomberg (Links to an external site.) CNN (Links to an external site.) New York Times (Links to an external site.) CNBC (Links to an external site.) BBC (Links to an external site.) Market Watch (Links to an external site.) Reuters (Links to an external site.) The Guardian (Links to an external site.) Economist (Links to an external site.) Wall Street Journal (Links to an external site.) Financial Times (Links to an external site.)