Matteo Colombo | DigitalVision | Getty Images For most investors these days, it’s literally a “PIPE dream.” PIPEs, or private investments in public equity, are mechanisms for companies to raise capital from a select group of investors outside the market. But as PIPEs are increasingly being deployed in conjunction with a surge in SPAC mergers,
A visitor in front of the Wall Street Bull, a bronze sculpture in the Financial District of Manhattan New York, May 19, 2020. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Speculative trading in some high momentum stocks and options could be signaling a near-term top, but the bull market is likely to run on
In 1958, Cuba was an investment powerhouse. Their workers were paid the eighth highest wages in the world, and the country’s per-capita income exceeded that of Austria and Japan. It was such a hot expat destination that more Americans lived there than Cubans in America. The golden days passed, however, when Fidel seized power, and
I’m about as big of a cryptocurrency bull as you’ll find. I have been for years. One might think that in turn would make me bullish on Marathon Patent (NASDAQ:MARA) stock. After all, Marathon Patent has positioned itself to be the stock for crypto bulls. It has put in ever-more aggressive orders for Bitcoin mining
With the fourth-quarter earnings announcement for chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) slated for Jan. 26, there’s intense debate about whether AMD stock will fly or fall. Source: Joseph GTK / Shutterstock.com It’s a pivotal time for the AMD stock trading community as the share price has gone sideways for a while. But don’t get me wrong,
There are many places a dividend investor can look to find their next high-quality dividend stock. While many investors tend to focus on those stocks with the longest dividend increase streaks, there are high-quality tech stocks that are emerging in terms of their own dividend increase streaks. Many tech stocks have been added to the
Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) stock is down 3.8% in one month. That’s not surprising. Bulls are booking profits after a massive year for the biotech company. Shares are still up 94.5% in the last three months, though. Hence, the fall in Moderna stock has more to do with technical selling pressure than its outlook. Source: Ascannio /
People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in lower Manhattan on October 02, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Parts of the market are in bubbles, but they are unlikely to take the overall market down with them when they pop, according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street firm
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: GameStop (GME) – GameStop shares surged 40% in premarket trading, continuing its meteoric recent rise. The video game retailer’s stock is worth about 3-1/2 times more than it was when 2021 began, amid a battle between GameStop enthusiasts and short sellers. GameStop is
How Do You Use Enterprise Value to Compare Companies? Enterprise value (EV) is an indicator of how the market attributes value to a firm as a whole. Enterprise value is a term coined by analysts to discuss the aggregate value of a company as an enterprise rather than just focusing on its current market capitalization
Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. IV (NYSE:IPOD) is a blank check company with no merger deal but trades a huge premium. IPOD stock trades like a special purpose acquisition company that already has a merger deal. Source: Pasuwan/ShutterStock.com The problem is it doesn’t. But the stock, now at $17.50, trades at a 75.5% premium to
XL Fleet (NYSE:XL) is one of the companies that went public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in 2020. XL stock is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. After climbing to more than $32 per share in December 2020, the stock has been steadily declining. Source: Pasuwan/ShutterStock.com That’s not unusual for newly public
Remember the 2014 Tom Cruise film Edge of Tomorrow? Source: Warner Bros. Great flick. If you haven’t seen it and are into science fiction movies, I highly recommend giving it a watch. In any event, the movie centers around Cruise playing a solider who uses a supercharged, futuristic military exoskeleton to help fight off an
Kacper Pempel | REUTERS Cryptocurrency-related crime fell last year to a small fraction of overall trading volume. But some targeted hacks boomed as criminals exploited people working from home during the pandemic. Last year, illicit activity made up 0.34% of all cryptocurrency transaction volume, according to a report from blockchain data firm Chainalysis. That was
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Morgan Stanley (MS) – Morgan Stanley earnings and revenue beat estimates for the fourth quarter. Results were helped in part by strong growth in investment banking and trading revenues. The company’s shares rose 2.5% in premarket trading as of 7:40 a.m. ET. UnitedHealth
Actually, both the President and Congress do. In the United States, fiscal policy is directed by both the executive and legislative branches. In the executive branch, the two most influential offices in this regard belong to the President and the Secretary of the Treasury, although contemporary presidents often rely on a council of economic advisers
Over the past month, we have seen unprecedented political events, such as the permanent ban of former President Donald Trump from both Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Twitter (NYSE:TWTR). That’s called into question the role of social media in modern democracy. But the markets do not exist in a vacuum. So, these developments should also have investors
China’s electric vehicle market is getting more competitive by the day. Favorable Chinese government policies have given the industry a strong push in the country. As a part of this increasingly hot movement, Xpeng (NYSE:XPEV) is evolving into a notable name in the EV space with a strong foothold in the space. This boost in
If 2020 was the year that all things e-commerce leaped to the fore, then you have to wonder whether someone forgot to tell the folks at China’s Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA). For while shares of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) killed it, spiking some 74%, those who held BABA stock saw share prices rise very modestly. The S&P 500
A woman is reflected in a puddle as she passes a Bank of America branch in New York’s Times Square. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The Democrats officially control the Presidency, Senate and House, yet Wall Street appears to be largely unphased. According to data from LPL Financial, the S&P 500 delivered its highest Inauguration Day