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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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Holy sheet: How to track your stock portfolio with Google Sheets
You don't need a fancy app for everything.
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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 ...
