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Fintech Focus For January 27, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 7:57pm | 2806Read More...Quote To Start The Day: October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. Source: Mark Twain One Big Thing In Fintech: Greenwood Financial, a new challenger bank...
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'Making Progress': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 7:12am | 1049Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Despite a volatile week, U.S. index futures managed to establish new all-time highs. Remember This: “In the longer term, the good news is that vaccines are now rolling out increasingly quickly,” said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at...
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Fintech Focus For December 17, 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 5:26pm | 2091Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Pricing an IPO is more of an art than a science. Source: Ran Ben-Tzur One Big Thing In Fintech: A massive delta exists between public and private assets. That’s according to Solomon Tesfaye, the vice president of business development and capital markets at tZero Group...
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Fintech Focus For December 14, 2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 7:23pm | 1738Read More...Quote To Start The Day: We’re really trying to encourage progress, not to force it. Source: Adena Friedman One Big Thing In Fintech: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. is jumping into the institutional bitcoin game with a $100 million investment in bitcoin and a $5 million equity stake...
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'Liquidity Jumping': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 5:35pm | 1495Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: After auctioning to new all-time highs, U.S. index futures moved back into balance. Remember This: “With Global Liquidity jumping by some US $20 trillion in 2020, or some 25% of World GDP, there is a lot to spend... Consider that following the 1930s...
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'The Third Wave': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, December 6, 2020 - 6:15pm | 1183Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: In light of hopes for a sustained economic rebound, U.S. broad market indices pushed to new all-time highs. Remember This: “[T]he third wave is now hitting the economy harder than we thought and that the damage is likely to keep adding up in coming...
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Week Ahead In Biotech: FDA To Decide On Emergency Use Of Pfizer's COVID Vaccine, Hematology Conference Presentations Pick Up Pace
Sunday, December 6, 2020 - 8:41am | 2647Read More...Biotech stocks headed higher in the week ended Dec. 5 as broader market optimism pervaded into the sector. The sector also continued to get support from vaccine-related positive news flow. The biggest headline of the week was the first-ever emergency-use authorization of a coronavirus vaccine...
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Fintech Focus For December 4, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 7:49pm | 2010Read More...Quote To Start The Day: One can look at a SPAC as the reverse of a traditional IPO. A SPAC goes public first—usually with a highly regarded executive team able to raise money from large institutional investors—with the intent to acquire a private company to put in its shell within...
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Fintech Focus For November 24, 2020
Monday, November 23, 2020 - 6:34pm | 1900Read More...Quote To Start The Day: If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient. Source: Gurbaksh Chahal One Big Thing In Fintech: Super Bowl LV, taking place in Tampa Bay in February, will offer 100% digital payment acceptance for fans throughout the stadium on...
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How One Contractor Is Trying To Help Detroit Recover From The Pandemic
Monday, November 23, 2020 - 4:34pm | 805Read More...The construction business has boomed during the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to Seth Helfman, the president at City Contracting Services, one of the biggest contractors in Michigan. Over almost 20 years, Helfman has witnessed countless economic cycles and their impact on...
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'Litmus Test': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, November 22, 2020 - 7:16pm | 1303Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: After the abrupt rotation into value and small-cap stocks on the procurement COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines and news of further lockdowns, broad-market indices ended flat-to-down. Remember This: “Historically the overall retail investor sentiment or...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Emerging Markets, Kandi, Simon Property, Plug Power And More
Saturday, November 21, 2020 - 3:47pm | 1040Read More...The cover story from this weekend's Barron's discusses why now is the time for investors to start shopping abroad. Other featured articles examine emerging market value stocks worth a look, alternative ways to invest in stocks with lofty share prices and the post-vaccine sweet spot for...
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Fintech Focus For November 19, 2020
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 6:42pm | 2481Read More...Quote Of The Day: The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee Fintech Movers: Big investors are backing online banks more than ever, betting that these upstarts' low overhead and nimble technology stacks will let them keep grabbing customers from traditional...
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'Upside Surprise': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, November 15, 2020 - 6:26pm | 1155Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Last week ended positively on news that a Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing the virus in participants without evidence of prior infection. Remember This: “We believe the...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For November 14, 2020
Saturday, November 14, 2020 - 9:52am | 2780Read More...Meet Sharesies, The Investment App For Millennials The Nitty-Gritty: Founded in 2016, Sharesies is a fintech specializing in democratized stock market investing. The company is one of many other brokers that have popped up around the world, helping unlock low-cost access to listed companies and...
