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Warren Buffett just made $800M in one day. What have you done lately?
Some say Warren Buffett is out of touch, but his flagship holding company Berkshire Hathaway just made nearly $1 billion ...
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Remembering Raven Thorogood III: The chimp that smoked Wall Street
At the peak of the dot-com bubble, this chimp picked a portfolio of tech stocks that outperformed every single US fund that ...
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Tesla crashed and bounced harder than any other tech stock this week
It's been a wild week for stocks, but none have bounced harder than electric car incumbent Tesla, now up nearly 20% since ...
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Tesla dumped $5B worth of its stock in just 4 days — and traders hate it
While falling 32% in a week is rough, Tesla is still up 22% since its stock split reveal, and many times more since this ...
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These tech stocks still have a price above $1K — will they split?
Stock splits seem all the rage nowadays. While the ‘generous’ idea behind them is to make ‘too expensive’ stocks ...
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How to find free-to-use images with Google Search
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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Apple is worth $2T: Here's how rich you'd be if you bought its stock instead of its products
Last year, we investigated how rich a person would be if he or she hadn't bought any first iteration of an Apple product, ...
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Gates Foundation sold $1B worth of Berkshire stock last quarter — it's still up $500M
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made just one stock market play last quarter: selling off $1 billion worth of shares ...
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Wirecard ominously pumps 140% during an irrational month for bankruptcy stocks
Shares in fallen fintech giant Wirecard jumped 140%, in what appears to be the latest irrational market pump for stock that ...
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This artist turns boring stock market data into gorgeous minimalist art
Stoxart is a new project that transforms typically boring stock market data into beautiful compelling minimalist art, and ...
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Beijing arrested a pro-democracy media tycoon in Hong Kong — then his stock quadrupled
Hong Kong activists became stock traders on Monday in support of local media tycoon Jimmy Lai, whom authorities arrested ...
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Bezos just took his first post-COVID (stock) dump — and it’s worth $3.1B
World's richest person Jeff Bezos just sold his first company shares in six months, all while Amazon stock inches to new ...
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TransferWise just let insiders dump $319M in company stock — and Draper Esprit cashed in big
Draper Esprit says its TransferWise investment generated it $42.8 million in cash, having first acquired a stake in the fintech ...
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Kodak, now a pharma company, expects drugs to make up 30-40% of its future business
The last time Kodak stock rallied like this was in 2018, when it touted an ICO for a branded cryptocurrency, of all things. ...
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Tencent's offer to buy this Chinese search engine pumped its stock by 50%
Chinese search engine Sogou's stock price jumped 50% after Tencent proposed to buy all of the company's remaining stock for ...
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Intel lost $42B in market value after revealing it might not make its own next-gen chipsets
Intel stock plunged after it revealed someone else will make its next gen chipsets — wiping $41.72 billion from its market ...
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84K Robinhood traders at risk of 'bagholding' after Kanye threatens GAP
Kanye West's relationship with GAP has again influenced the fashion giant's stock, putting more than 80,000 Robinhood traders ...
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Anatomy of the FANTAMAN, the tech stock amalgam worth more than Germany's GDP
FANTAMAN is no joke. It represents the most powerful tech companies in the US like Apple and Microsoft, and it's worth more ...
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This penny stock with a ticker almost identical to Tesla is up 300% this year
A warning to keen investors looking to buy stock: always double (and triple) check that you're buying the right one, and ...
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What was the better investment in 1985: Super Mario Bros or Apple stock?
A near-perfect version of Super Mario Bros. just sold for $114,000, so we had a question: was it or Apple stock a better ...
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Ubisoft stock crashes after 3 top execs resign over toxic company culture
Industry analysts reportedly downgraded Ubisoft from 'buy' to 'hold' as its stock price plummeted during Monday morning trade. ...
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Tencent knocks Sony out of race to buy Warframe's Leyou
Trade in Leyou stock, which is up 20% in 2020, is set to resume on Monday. Tencent, on the other hand, is up 40% year-to-date. ...
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NVIDIA takes the US chipmaker crown from Intel — a first since 2014
NVIDIA overtook seminal computing giant Intel to become the largest chipmaker in the US by market cap on Wednesday, a first ...
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Digital media giant J2 Global 'targeted' by notorious New York short sellers
On one hand, Hindenburg's research on J2 Global be taken with a grain of salt, considering their very real monetary stake ...
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Tesla short sellers lost $1.33B on Thursday's stock pump — Musk only got richer
If you're Elon Musk, you're likely already working on a sick new club track to celebrate — but those who've bet against ...
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Here's what $10K invested at the height of the dot com bubble would be worth today (Oops, not quite)
Imagine Futarama is a documentary of your life, only instead of unfreezing in the 3000, you wake up today: 20 years since ...
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No, THIS is how much $10K worth of dot-com bubble stock is worth today
Never mind that you FOMOed into buying the top of one of the biggest stock market bubbles in history. Turns out your stocks ...
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At least 7,500 Robinhood traders bought Hertz stock after its latest 100% pump
Not only did Robinhood users as a whole miss selling Wednesday's top, nearly 7,500 traders took fresh positions in Hertz ...
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Zoom insiders dumped $119M in company stock this month — 4x their sales in May
After taking a few months off the selling, Zoom Video insiders are back and they're selling more company stock than ever. ...
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The stock market crashes every time Lil Yachty releases music, a theory
The S&P 500 seems able to shrug off Lil Yachty studio album, but those believing this whacky theory might want to look out ...
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Wirecard's former CEO arrested over those missing billions
Wirecard's former CEO Markus Braun has been arrested after turning himself in on Monday evening over the fintech company's ...
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3 tech stocks that surged in price this year — but didn’t get much attention
While the broad S&P 500 index hasn’t fully recovered yet from the coronavirus-induced crash -- it’s still trailing ...
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Zoom is up 250% this year: it’s now worth more than AMD and General Electric
If Zoom continues to grow as it has all year, it will soon surpass the likes of Wall Street's Goldman Sachs, and mining ...
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United Airlines just got kicked out of the NASDAQ 100 by a company that helps you sign PDFs
It's easy to see why Nasdaq might phase out the failing United Airlines in favor of a 'stay-at-home' stock like DocuSign. ...
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Bankrupt Hertz targets Robinhood traders in plot to dump $1 billion in stock
Hertz's bankruptcy sparked a market rally eerily reminiscent of the darkest days of 2017's cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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Elon Musk worth $2 billion more as Tesla stock hits $1,000 for the first time
Make no mistake: when Tesla's number goes up, big things start happening for its enigmatic billionaire founder Elon Musk. ...
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Why it’s dangerous to compare Robinhood traders to billionaire investors
Robinhood has been making headline after headline on financial media lately. Following the coronavirus market meltdown, the ...
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Bitcoin has returned more profit than every top-tier tech ETF this year
Just five technology-focused ETFs with more than $1 billion under management have outperformed the NASDAQ 100 index this ...
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Tech’s market debutantes overshadowed by Gates-backed pharma stock
15 of the 20 best-performing IPOs this year are in some way related to the pharmaceutical industry, while just one is considered ...
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Zoom and Tesla have grown faster than any other NASDAQ 100 stock this year
Zoom and Tesla have multiplied their market caps this year, growth that outstrips every single stock in the NASDAQ 100 index. ...
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3 tech stocks that haven’t fully recovered yet — yes, they still exist
Last week, a rotation started to form from the technology sector into value: sectors that are still discounted such as the ...
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13 YouTube channels to turn yourself from wagecuck to finance god
It seems budgeting, saving, and investing are all the rage nowadays, and that everyone’s joining the FIRE (Financial Independence ...
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A look at the $17 billion stock portfolio of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made big Wall Street bets on US tech — pouring hundreds of millions of dollars ...
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US tech execs have dumped $3.6 billion in company stock this month
Top execs from Facebook, General Electric, Cloudflare, and Activision all have sold small fortunes worth of stock this month. ...
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These are the 3 least volatile tech stocks paying out high dividends
Dividends allow shareholders to directly benefit from a company’s profits, by paying out part of it on a yearly, quarterly, ...
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PayPal stock at all-time high after payments surge during coronavirus lockdowns
Despite attracting 7.4 million new accounts last quarter, PayPal proved its not immune to the effects of COVID-19 by falling ...
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8 tech stocks trading at an all-time high during the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has left a serious dent in the stock market, but not all industries have been hit hard. In fact, ...
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Here's what Elon Musk needs to get his $750M payday from Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is edging closer to a very satisfying payday, which comes as long as the company's stock price continues ...
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Goldman Sachs analysts on Apple stock: Dump. It.
Goldman Sachs, which manages around $1.8 trillion in assets, said it expects iPhone shipments to slow by 36% during the third ...
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Holy sheet: How to track your stock portfolio with Google Sheets
You don't need a fancy app for everything.
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Amazon stock hits new all-time high as coronavirus spurs demand
Amazon's market cap broke $1.1 trillion as coronavirus lockdown measures bring unprecendented demand to the ecommerce giant. ...
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These coronavirus stock photos will make you want to stay at home
What coronavirus looks like, according to these ridiculously conceptual stock photos.
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Zoom sued by shareholder after security issues tanked its stock price
Just when it looked like Zoom's getting its act together, the company's troubles got bad to worse. Yesterday, one of its ...
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Zoom execs dumped millions in company stock before shit hit the fan
A raft of high-level execs at Zoom Video earned tens of millions of dollars by selling company shares in the lead-up to its ...
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Trump's trade war created a sweet-ass laptop stockpile for US schools
Computer vendors like Acer had been hoarding laptops and monitors well before the coronavirus pandemic hit. So convenient. ...
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SEC halts $ZOOM after coronavirus traders confuse it for Zoom app
NASDAQ lists Zoom Technologies, which didn't make Zoom, as $ZOOM, while the ticker for Zoom Video Communications, which did ...
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Here's how much Warren Buffett would've made buying Bitcoin instead of JP Morgan
We wondered how much Warren Buffett would've made Berkshire Hathaway had he bought $4 billion worth of Bitcoin instead of ...
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Bezos dumped $3.4B in Amazon shares just before coronavirus tanked the stock market
In news that should hardly surprise anyone: those in charge of the US' biggest companies dumped billions of dollars in shares ...
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Robinhood traders are loading up on these stocks while markets are plunging
They're leaning towards the hardest hit industries in the Coronavirus crisis.
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Every single tech stock in the S&P 500 index got rekt on Monday
Stock markets around the world suffered a dark day on Monday, the worst since the 2008 financial crisis, with tech stocks ...
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Robinhood offers traders $15 for going down as markets gained $1.1T
The markets bounced hard on Monday, following their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis, but Robinhood users were ...
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Buffett dumps $800M worth of Apple stock, invests in biotech and groceries
Berkshire Hathaway still owns more than 5% of Apple, despite unloading almost a billion dollars worth of stock in the last ...
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Tesla shorters have lost $8.3 billion in 2020 as stock price hits record high
Tesla has attracted more short-sellers than any other U.S. company. They control over 18% of the company's publicly available ...
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Apple, Facebook, and Warren Buffett: Here's the top 25 stocks for millennials
The average millennial investor is buying up tech stocks, but Tesla surprisingly isn't the most popular stock among thirty-somethings. ...
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Bill Gates owns a lot more Apple stock than you might think
How many dollars worth of Apple stock does he actually control through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust’s stake ...
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Tesla becomes America's first $100B publicly listed carmaker
On Tuesday EV carmaker Tesla became the first US carmaker, that publicly sells shares, to be valued at over $100 billion. ...
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CNN: Bitcoin was the best investment of the decade
Numbers from the Bank of America show that investing $1 in Bitcoin at the start of this decade would earn you more than $90,000. ...
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DATA: Robinhood users are really bad at portfolio diversification
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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Robinhood users are gravitating towards loss-making companies
Can Robinhood users actually call themselves Robinhood’s, or is it just another tool for the rich to rob the average Joe? ...
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Porcelain business raises suspicion amid China's blockchain renaissance
A porcelain and education business has attracted the suspicion of Chinese regulators after its stock recently boomed, CoinDesk ...
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Moonday Morning: China goes crazy over blockchain
Hello, happy Monday and welcome to another Moonday Morning – Hard Fork's roundup of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency ...
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FBI suspects tea company that 'pivoted' to blockchain of insider trading
Long Island Tea Corp changed its name to Long Blockchain Corp in 2017. Now the FBI is investigating the company suspecting ...
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Everything you need to know about China's new Nasdaq-style STAR Market
25 companies have begun trading on China's new STAR Market today, in a move that marks the first step towards major capital ...
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Here’s how much you would have made if you invested in Netflix stock instead of a subscription
Our digital media addiction is costlier than you might think
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Watch: Shutterstock recreates the Stranger Things trailer using only stock footage
There's a lot you can do with Shutterstock's generic video footage.
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This is how rich you’d be if you bought Apple stock instead of its products
Here you go – an easy way to feel bad about your childhood life decisions in one simple article.
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CHEAP: EVERYTHING on ThinkGeek is half price, so move fast!
ThinkGeek is a great site filled with an array of nerdy gear. But you know what's even better? EVERYTHING IS 50% OFF OH MY ...
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Bitcoin is the ‘King of the Asset Class Hill’ in 2019, analysts say
Bitcoin posted four consecutive months of solid returns, making it one of the best performing global assets of the year so ...
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'Blockchain' won't save your bad business from going bust
Blockchain name-dropping seems to be dying as one Hong Kong tea maker tried and failed to perk up its stock price just by ...
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Bitwise Asset Management applies for Bitcoin-backed ETF
Bitwise Asset Management, a cryptocurrency index fund provider, has applied for a new bitcoin-backed exchange-traded fund ...
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Tech stocks are overvalued and it’s killing innovation
We’re entering an unprecedented era of advanced technology and behemoth tech companies driving its development. Earlier ...
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Basic lessons in arbitrage for new cryptocurrency traders
Arbitrage is super simple, and has been utilized for decades on the stock market. Here's how the concept is being applied ...
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Tesla’s woes unlikely to end soon, but startups can take a cue
“Funding secured.” When Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk tweeted the above statement early August, it kickstarted a ...
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SEC charges Elon Musk with fraud
Elon Musk, Tesla's controversial CEO, is now being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over his tweets last ...
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Women get just 47 cents in equity for every $1 awarded to male colleagues
The gender pay disparity isn't a secret. We know that women make $0.82 for every dollar a man makes, still, in 2018. It's ...
