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Fintech Focus For March 4, 2021
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 7:59pm | 2442Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “In a multi-asset portfolio, investors can likely add up to 1% of their allocation to cryptocurrencies in order to achieve any efficiency gain in the overall risk-adjusted returns of the portfolio.” Source: JPMorgan One Big Thing In Fintech: In recent months,...
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Fintech Focus For March 2, 2021
Monday, March 1, 2021 - 6:50pm | 2244Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “A focus on global reach and neutrality could see bitcoin become an international trade currency. This would take advantage of bitcoin’s decentralized and borderless design, its lack of foreign exchange exposure, its speed and cost advantage in moving money, the...
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Fintech Focus For February 22, 2021
Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 3:15pm | 2088Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “I think we’ve positioned ourselves as the finance super app because I don’t think people want to go to four, five, and six different solutions to manage their money,” M1 Finance marketing vice president Bob Armour said. “We’re a place...
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Barron's Latest Picks And Pans: Bank Stocks, BDCs, Blackstone, Fluor, Oracle And More
Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 8:13am | 1202Read More...This weekend's Barron's cover story explores one enterprise software company's transformation into a cloud giant. Other featured articles discuss who dominates the public cloud, who stands to benefit as Texas rebuilds and how to tell when tech companies are overvalued. Also, the...
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Fintech Focus For February 18, 2021
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - 6:45pm | 1754Read More...Quote To Start The Day: I think the volume of SPACs is going to certainly outweigh the number of IPOs, but the IPOs are going to be bigger deals. Source: Patrick Healey One Big Thing In Fintech: Titan, an asset manager for retail investors, announced Tuesday it raised a $12.5 million Series A...
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How Edtech Multiverse Is Helping Young, Diverse Talent Win Apprenticeships
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - 8:36am | 1048Read More...Multiverse, a U.K.-based ed-tech company, on Jan. 19 formally announced the closure of a $44 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Google Ventures, Audacious Ventures, Latitude, SemperVirens, Index Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. As part of the...
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Fintech Focus For February 9, 2021
Monday, February 8, 2021 - 8:32pm | 2129Read More...Quote To Start The Day: If you can change your mind, you can change your life. Source: William James One Big Thing In Fintech: Tesla has disclosed in an SEC filing published Monday that it has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin. "In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide...
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Barron's Latest Picks And Pans: Roundtable Picks, Quantumscape, Commodities And More
Sunday, January 31, 2021 - 6:24am | 1164Read More...This weekend's Barron's cover story explains why the online renegades that took the investing world by storm are just getting started. Other featured articles offer Barron's Roundtable stock picks for 2021, examine how retail has changed over the past century and ponder what's...
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Investors Eye Vaccine Results From JNJ, Novavax Amid Broader Market Uncertainty
Friday, January 29, 2021 - 11:12am | 1610Read More...The last day of a volatile and heavily traded stock market week opens this morning with investors apparently feeling uneasy given the state of certain speculative trades that have been in the spotlight for days. At the moment it seems like there is a little bit of turnover in the market, with...
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The Tech Earnings Barrage: Earnings Beats By Apple, Facebook; More Big Tech Companies Report Next Week
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 12:46pm | 1940Read More...It seems like investors have plenty to mull over this morning, given the crazy action around apparent short squeezes, sobering comments about the economic recovery from the Federal Reserve, lofty stock valuations, and mixed economic news. The government’s first estimate of fourth-quarter...
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Earnings Triple Crown After Close As Facebook, Apple, Tesla Prepare To Report
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 11:11am | 2390Read More...This afternoon investors can sit back and enjoy an earnings season triple crown. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), and Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) all deliver quarterly results after the close. Before that, we’ll barely have time to digest a Fed...
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Revenue And Regulatory Risk: Facebook Prepares To Open The Books On Q4
Monday, January 25, 2021 - 2:20pm | 1433Read More...Despite an ad boycott, Congressional hearings, and a swirl of controversies, Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shares hit record highs last year as people hunkered down during the pandemic and used social media to keep in touch. The question is, can the social behemoth keep the momentum...
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Are You Ready For The 'FANGMAN'? — What To Know About The New Acronym On The Block
Sunday, January 24, 2021 - 4:12pm | 829Read More...After the FANGs, FAANGs and MAGAs, another acronym taking the investment world by storm is FANGMAN. This acronym is used by traders to refer to stocks of seven of the biggest tech companies in the world. The combined market capitalization of these stocks is about $7.9 trillion, which is roughly 25...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Roundtable Picks, GameStop, LKQ, Netflix, Roblox And More
Sunday, January 24, 2021 - 11:42am | 1108Read More...This weekend's Barron's cover story offers a slew of stock and bond picks from the latest Barron's Roundtable. Other featured articles examine how last year's Barron's stock picks fared, what to focus on when investing in China and the latest signs of a speculative frenzy. Also...
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Facebook Logged Out iPhone Users, Blames 'Configuration Change'
Saturday, January 23, 2021 - 10:53am | 293Read More...IPhone users were suddenly logged out of their Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) accounts on Friday night. What Happened: Many iPhone users took to Twitter to complain about being logged out of Facebook. So Facebook logged everybody out? Thought it was just me pic.twitter.com/6wl69gFGoD...
