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Fintech Spotlight: OVTLYR Launches Behavioral Analytics Tool For Retail Investors
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 7:00pm | 593OVTLYR, an AI-driven behavioral analytics tool for retail investors, formally announced its web-based platform launched for free, as a pilot. As part of the development, Benzinga chatted with co-founders Mark Gorzycki, as well as Mahesh Kashyap. What Happened: Gorzycki and Kashyap are financial...
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Cramer Slams Sundial As Cannabis Company Raises Over $89M Via Warrant Exchange
Friday, February 19, 2021 - 11:52am | 642Sundial Growers Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL) reported Friday that it has raised $89.1 million via a warrant exchange. The company noted that holders of 98.33 million warrants to buy shares of the company will exercise for cash their warrants at prices of 80 cents and $1.10 for gross proceeds to the company...
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Benzinga's Weekly Bulls And Bears: GameStop, Intel, Lyft, Tilray, Twitter And More
Saturday, February 13, 2021 - 12:48pm | 1341Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. The week's bullish calls included a social media leader, a ride-sharing play and an unloved apparel stock. A semiconductor giant, a struggling retailer and a pot stock were among the bearish calls seen...
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Fintech Spotlight: Unpacking Finny's Quiz-Based Take On Financial Literacy
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - 9:21am | 1531In the last two years, the commission-free revolution and gamification of online trading platforms increased engagement in markets. Now more than ever before are people interested in learning about finance and unique ways to put their money to use. In light of this, Benzinga spoke with Milan...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For February 6, 2021
Friday, February 5, 2021 - 4:37pm | 1508'This Is Not The Market Participant's Problem': Volatility Arbitrage Trader Talks GameStop, Market Microstructure, Regulation The dynamics that transpired in GameStop can be traced back to factors like Federal Reserve stabilization efforts and low rates, which incentivize risk taking...
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Fintech Focus For February 4, 2021
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 6:32pm | 1893Quote To Start The Day: We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Source: Helen Keller One Big Thing In Fintech: Seedrs and Crowdcube were created as forward-thinking Fintechs leveraging technology to match investors with private firms in a sector traditionally dominated by...
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Fintech Focus For February 3, 2021
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - 7:18pm | 2693Quote To Start The Day: To better align our incentives with those of our members, we will stop participating in the practice of Payment for Order Flow. Source: Public.com One Big Thing In Fintech: An “anonymously” led startup called Millions has raised a $3 million seed round...
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10 Most Heavily-Shorted Stocks On The Russell 3000
Monday, February 1, 2021 - 5:05pm | 612Last week, members of the Reddit forum WallStreetBets were able to pull off a short squeeze for the history books by banding together to take on hedge funds betting against GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME). Targeting GameStop worked well for the Reddit community because GameStop had very...
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Fintech Focus For February 1, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021 - 11:56pm | 1721Quote To Start The Day: The value of the cold email is so underrated. Source: Michael Gruen One Big Thing In Fintech: When Robinhood, a startup that promises to make finance accessible for all, temporarily limited trading on GameStop, AMC, and other memestocks, many retail investors were pissed...
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Barron's Latest Picks And Pans: Roundtable Picks, Quantumscape, Commodities And More
Sunday, January 31, 2021 - 5:24am | 1164This 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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Fintech Focus Roundup For January 30, 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021 - 7:12pm | 1497A Short Seller Joins Benzinga's 'Power Hour' To Talk GameStop. The Rest Is History. On Jan. 21, Citron Research's Andrew Left went live with Benzinga’s Luke Jacobi and Jason Raznick on the daily "Power Hour" show to discuss his opinion on GameStop Corporation. After...
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Fintech Focus For January 29, 2021
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 5:44pm | 1312Quote To Start The Day: Knowledge should be rewarded. Source: John Vitti One Big Thing In Fintech: The biggest challenge facing consumers in finance is a lack of trust; it’s tough to discern whether financial institutions are acting in the interest of customers and sharing their values. That...
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Fintech Focus For January 28, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 6:11pm | 2075Quote To Start The Day: I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Source: Bruce Lee One Big Thing In Fintech: StockCharts, the web's leading technical analysis and financial charting platform for online retail investors, today announced that they have eclipsed 1.6 million users...
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How GameStop's Stock Became A Populist Rallying Cry
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 10:24am | 1333If I told you a story about a group of everyday people bound together by a common, albeit fundamentally flawed belief, who pushed one another to extremes in a self-reinforcing internet echo chamber, risking everything to overthrow the powers that be, you might think I was offering a...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Roundtable Picks, GameStop, LKQ, Netflix, Roblox And More
Sunday, January 24, 2021 - 10:42am | 1108This 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...