Even among other Big Tech darlings, shares in PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) have performed very well in the past few months. PayPal stock is up more than 37% since November. To some extent, this is due to its exposure to the cryptocurrency megatrend. This may be a reason for concern, with bitcoin (CCC:BTC) and other major cryptos
Investing in vaccine makers for the novel coronavirus has not been easy, but it’s been rewarding. Take Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) for instance. NVAX stock is up nearly 2000% from its 2020 low to its current price of roughly $130. Source: Ascannio/Shutterstock.com While most people would look at that and say the run is over — or
Every day it seems like market averages are hitting new highs. That’s certainly comforting in one sense. But it can also be disquieting. The Dow Jones Industrials keeps powering on alongside the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, but how long can it continue? There’s talk of a reckoning. But any drop will be temporary. The
Many politicians, government officials, and members of the media are misleading you about the COVID-19 vaccines. Source: Shutterstock They’re not stretching the truth about the effectiveness of the vaccines, however. Just the opposite, in fact. They’re downplaying the effectiveness of the vaccines — and emphasizing what they might not do. While virtually every vaccine out there
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