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Social Leverage SPAC To Unlock Market Access To New Wave Technology Innovations
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 8:28am | 396Social Leverage Acquisition I, a blank check company, filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise nearly $300 million in an initial public offering. What Happened: Social Leverage is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage software, consumer, and fintech investments...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For August 8, 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020 - 8:12pm | 973Why The Rocket IPO Marks A Paradigm Shift In Finance What Is Happening? Rocket Companies, home to Quicken Loans, the nation's largest retail mortgage lender, priced its 100-million share IPO offering at $18 per share, valuing the company at about $36 billion. What Does It Mean? The IPO is just...
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eBay Stock Surge As Report Says NYSE Owner Offered Takeover Deal
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 11:06pm | 333The shares of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) surged on Tuesday as the Wall Street Journal reported that the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) had offered a takeover deal to the e-commerce company. What Happened The New York Stock Exchange owner ICE approached eBay with a takeover offer for the...
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Intercontinental Exchange Adopts New Volatility Indices
Friday, August 9, 2019 - 11:06am | 144The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), an exchange operator, will acquire a family of fixed income volatility indices, including Merrill Lynch’s Option Volatility Estimate (MOVE) to improve client risk management. “The MOVE Index has a long history of providing strong signals about bond...
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Stacey Cunningham Takes The Reins At NYSE
Friday, May 25, 2018 - 11:48am | 769Today, Stacey Cunningham becomes the first female president of the New York Stock Exchange and the second woman, just behind Nasdaq’s Adena Friedman, to head a major U.S. exchange. The industry, the media and even Intercontinental Exchange call Cunningham’s ascension a feat for women...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Intercontinental Exchange, Visteon And More
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 7:49am | 594Featured stories this weekend in Barron's ponder the prospects for a financial-exchange operator, an automotive electronics maker and a consumer products company. This issue also offers ETF picks from a panel of pros and picks from the Sohn Conference. Other articles discuss the significance of...
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Intercontinental Exchange Announces Acquisition Of Securities Evaluations, Credit Market Analysis
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 7:58am | 283Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE: ICE) announced after Tuesday's market close it has completed two separate acquisitions. Intercontinental Exchange said that it has reached an agreement to acquire Standard & Poor's Securities Evaluations, Inc., a provider of fixed income evaluated pricing....
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Exactly What Happened With NYSE's ETF Quotes?
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 11:59am | 341Tuesday's market open was met with with technical problems coming from the ICE-controlled NYSE Arca's Pacific Exchange. S&P Sector ETFs were all halted and worry began to circulate on trading desks regarding what had happened. NYSE confirmed that the error wasn't from a rogue...
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Citigroup 'Cools' On Intercontinental Exchange
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 8:57am | 170Neil Stratton of Citigroup downgraded shares of Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE: ICE) on Friday to Neutral from Buy despite raising his price target to $240 from a previous $226. Stratton notes that shares of Intercontinental Exchange appreciated approximately 17 percent quarter-to-date,...
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Deutsche Bank: Owning Nasdaq OMX Group, Inc. Could Reward Investors In The Long-Term
Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 12:17pm | 256On Thursday, Brian Bedell of Deutsche Bank released a year-end strategy report on Brokers, Asset Managers and Exchanges. The analyst favors owning shares of Nasdaq OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) along with InterContinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). The two exchanges offer investors...
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Memories Of March Return As Momentum Stocks Hit Hard
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 3:49pm | 1900U.S. stocks sold off hard with momentum stocks seeing larger losses with names like Twitter, Facebook, FireEye and others under-performed major indices significantly. The Fed's richmond President Jeffrey Lacker commented that U.S. inflation has bottomed and is moving towards its target...
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Market Wrap For June 5: Markets Positive Before Friday's Employment Report
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 3:35pm | 2244U.S. stocks were positive after the European Central Bank implemented steps to fight disinflation, including negative interest rates. On the home-front, initial jobless claims rose last week but that didn't stand in the way of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices trading at historical all-...
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Two NYSE Executives to Leave at the End of 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 2:57pm | 276The New York Stock Exchange and Larry Leibowitz are set to part ways, according to The New York Post. Chief operating officer Larry Leibowitz, brother of Daily Show host Jon Stewart, will be leaving the exchange at the end of 2013. The New York Stock Exchange is owned by its parent company, NYSE...
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JP Morgan Resumes ICE At Overweight, Raises PT To $144
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 5:52am | 31JP Morgan has resumed coverage on The Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) with an Overweight rating and has raised the price target from $142 to $144.
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UPDATE: Jefferies Upgrades Intercontinental Exchange to Buy
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 6:29am | 116Jefferies is out with its report today on Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), upgrading ICE from Hold to Buy. In a note to clients, Jefferies writes, "The combination of a compelling valuation and good fundamentals has created an attractive entry point for ICE shares in our view. ICE's trend of...