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Penny stocks come with high risks and the potential for above-average returns, and investing in them requires care and caution. Because of their inherent risks, few full-service brokerages even offer penny stocks to their clients. Many are shares in companies that are headed for bankruptcy, small or new companies with little or no following, or businesses

Five-starred red flags line the Nanjing Road pedestrian street in Shanghai, China, on June 22, 2021. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images China is at a crucial moment in its political and economic evolution. The political growl that is trying to become

The peer-to-peer short-term rental services like Airbnb are becoming an alternative to many travelers. Some travelers are looking for the feel of home away from home. Others are looking for accommodations that will cover large groups in one place. Many also look to short-term peer-to-peer rentals as a less costly option than the standard hotel

Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images Company: Vonage Holdings Corp. (VG) Business: Vonage is a collection of three main businesses: (i) the legacy consumer VOIP business; (ii) Application Programing Interface (API) business, which helps companies communicate to their customers through text messaging and (iii) Cloud-based Enterprise Communication as a Service business (CaaS). Stock Market Value:

The Walt Disney Company is a global entertainment company that operates a broad range of businesses, including theme parks, resorts, a cruise line, broadcast TV networks, and related products. Disney also produces live entertainment events and produces and streams a wide range of film and TV entertainment content through its relatively new digital streaming services. The Walt

In this article RKLB An Electron rocket gets ready to launch. Rocket Lab Rocket Lab signed a five-launch contract with European satellite data company Kinéis, in a deal that adds to the space company’s backlog. Kinéis is building an Internet of Things connectivity constellation with 25 satellites, all of which will be launched to orbit

Credit Reports vs. Investigative Consumer Reports: An Overview Investigative consumer reports receive a lot less notoriety than consumer credit reports, probably because you are far more likely to have your credit report pulled than to have a full-blown investigative consumer report performed about you. There are some major similarities between these two types of reports;

Brian Moynihan, chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America Corp, speaks in New York City, September 25, 2019. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan announced the most sweeping management overhaul of his 12-year tenure atop the giant financial institution. In a memo distributed to employees on Friday, Moynihan named

Investors often hear about the importance of diversifying and how much money they should put into each stock or sector. These are all questions that can be applied to a money management system such as the Kelly Criterion, one of the many allocation techniques that can be used to manage money effectively. This system is

In this article MA The MasterCard logo on a smartphone arranged in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mastercard has agreed to acquire blockchain analytics start-up CipherTrace, in the latest sign of how major companies are warming to cryptocurrencies. The payments giant said Thursday it entered into an agreement to

Nearly one-third of all American students now have to go into debt to get through college, and the average student loan debt reached a record high of $38,792 in 2020. Collectively, they owe nearly $1.6 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As any recent college student—or parent of a student—knows, obtaining

Varo Money’s mobile banking application. Varo Bank has more than tripled its valuation after gaining a national banking charter last year, CNBC has learned. The company is set to announce Thursday that it raised $510 million in a Series E round led by hedge fund Lone Pine Capital and including dozens of new and existing

While Americans continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s also time to take care of the 2020 tax year filing season, including the impact of existing and recent legislation on how you will file in 2021. Several changes were brought on by coronavirus-related legislation, and others were set to happen anyway. These include new

Health conscious American millennials have found their drink of choice: alcoholic carbonated water that is lower in calories and carbs than beer and wine. A hard seltzer craze is sweeping the United States as Generation Y and Generation Z pursue healthier lifestyles, influenced by viral trends on Instagram and YouTube. TIMOTHY A. CLARY | AFP

Mortgage rates have been ticking up for almost a week, but with minimal increases of just a point per day, they still sit just slightly higher than the 3% threshold. They are now approaching four weeks of hovering within an eighth of a point above 3%. National Averages of Lenders’ Best Rates Loan Type Purchase

In this article CG (Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Kewsong Lee is closing out one trip around the sun as sole CEO of The Carlyle Group. It was a unique year for the private equity firm — which oversees more than $270 billion in private assets — with the multitude of challenges

401(k) vs. Pension Plan: An Overview A 401(k) plan and pension are both employer-sponsored retirement plans. The biggest difference between the two is that a 401(k) is a defined-contribution plan and a pension is a defined-benefit plan. A defined-contribution plan allows employees and employers (if they choose) to contribute and invest funds to save for

The CEO of the investment firm running the world’s biggest bitcoin fund sounded off on comments made by Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler about the likely approval path for the first U.S. bitcoin ETF. Michael Sonnenshein, CEO of Grayscale Investments, warned on Tuesday that the SEC would be making a mistake if it

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Investors who want to own stocks in the technology sector may decide to buy exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the Nasdaq. When investors refer to the Nasdaq, they typically refer to the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, which is composed of more than 2,500 companies. Companies in this group vary widely in size and quality, including struggling