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Fintech Focus For April 16, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021 - 8:11pm | 2278Read More...Quote To Start The Day: "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." Source: Mother Teresa One Big Thing In Fintech: Residents of Miami-Dade County in the U.S. state of Florida may one day be able to pay their taxes in the form of cryptocurrency....
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FDA, CDC Officials Discuss Johnson & Johnson Vaccine: A 'Pause Recommendation', Resolution Timeline And Advisory
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - 3:08pm | 856Read More...The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) handed down a recommendation to pause the use of Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE: JNJ) COVID-19 vaccine. In a joint audio press conference hosted by Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock,...
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The Latest Barron's Picks And Pans: H&R Block, Intel, Parts ID, Welbilt And More
Sunday, March 28, 2021 - 10:56am | 1122Read More...This weekend's Barron's cover story discusses how to assemble a dividend stock portfolio to retire on. Other featured articles suggest what to buy for a manic market, European stocks cheaper than their U.S. counterparts and the tech stocks returning to dot-com bubble heights. Also, the...
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Fintech Focus For February 16, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021 - 8:59pm | 1124Read More...Quote To Start The Day: "The markets are not a casino. They are highly regulated and they're highly overseen.” Source: Stacey Cunningham One Big Thing In Fintech: Things are actually happening upside-down, topsy-turvy. The public markets are being inflated their way up, up, and away...
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Fintech Focus For January 27, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 8:57pm | 2806Read More...Quote To Start The Day: October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. Source: Mark Twain One Big Thing In Fintech: Greenwood Financial, a new challenger bank...
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'Making Progress': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 8:12am | 1049Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Despite a volatile week, U.S. index futures managed to establish new all-time highs. Remember This: “In the longer term, the good news is that vaccines are now rolling out increasingly quickly,” said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at...
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Fintech Focus For December 17, 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 6:26pm | 2091Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Pricing an IPO is more of an art than a science. Source: Ran Ben-Tzur One Big Thing In Fintech: A massive delta exists between public and private assets. That’s according to Solomon Tesfaye, the vice president of business development and capital markets at tZero Group...
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Fintech Focus For December 14, 2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 8:23pm | 1738Read More...Quote To Start The Day: We’re really trying to encourage progress, not to force it. Source: Adena Friedman One Big Thing In Fintech: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. is jumping into the institutional bitcoin game with a $100 million investment in bitcoin and a $5 million equity stake...
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'Liquidity Jumping': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 6:35pm | 1495Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: After auctioning to new all-time highs, U.S. index futures moved back into balance. Remember This: “With Global Liquidity jumping by some US $20 trillion in 2020, or some 25% of World GDP, there is a lot to spend... Consider that following the 1930s...
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'The Third Wave': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, December 6, 2020 - 7:15pm | 1183Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: In light of hopes for a sustained economic rebound, U.S. broad market indices pushed to new all-time highs. Remember This: “[T]he third wave is now hitting the economy harder than we thought and that the damage is likely to keep adding up in coming...
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Week Ahead In Biotech: FDA To Decide On Emergency Use Of Pfizer's COVID Vaccine, Hematology Conference Presentations Pick Up Pace
Sunday, December 6, 2020 - 9:41am | 2647Read More...Biotech stocks headed higher in the week ended Dec. 5 as broader market optimism pervaded into the sector. The sector also continued to get support from vaccine-related positive news flow. The biggest headline of the week was the first-ever emergency-use authorization of a coronavirus vaccine...
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Fintech Focus For December 4, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 8:49pm | 2010Read More...Quote To Start The Day: One can look at a SPAC as the reverse of a traditional IPO. A SPAC goes public first—usually with a highly regarded executive team able to raise money from large institutional investors—with the intent to acquire a private company to put in its shell within...
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Fintech Focus For November 24, 2020
Monday, November 23, 2020 - 7:34pm | 1900Read More...Quote To Start The Day: If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient. Source: Gurbaksh Chahal One Big Thing In Fintech: Super Bowl LV, taking place in Tampa Bay in February, will offer 100% digital payment acceptance for fans throughout the stadium on...
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How One Contractor Is Trying To Help Detroit Recover From The Pandemic
Monday, November 23, 2020 - 5:34pm | 805Read More...The construction business has boomed during the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to Seth Helfman, the president at City Contracting Services, one of the biggest contractors in Michigan. Over almost 20 years, Helfman has witnessed countless economic cycles and their impact on...
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'Litmus Test': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, November 22, 2020 - 8:16pm | 1303Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: After the abrupt rotation into value and small-cap stocks on the procurement COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines and news of further lockdowns, broad-market indices ended flat-to-down. Remember This: “Historically the overall retail investor sentiment or...
