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Photo: QuoteInspectorPeople who are invested in the stock market are currently counting interesting gains as there has been commendable growth in the major stock market indices. On Monday, the S&P 500 increased by 0.7% and successfully set a new record at 3,039.42, beating out the previous record of 3,027.98 which was set a few months ago on July 26.This increase was also seen elsewhere, as the Nasdaq Composite rose by 1% to hit 8,325.99, about 0.5% less than its own record highs. The...

Ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies Inc. plans to foray into the payments and financial services market. Citing a massive opportunity in this sector, Uber announced a new division called Uber Money catering to the company’s debit and credit card offerings along with digital wallet facilities.Uber Money will first focus on providing services to its fleet of 4 million drivers and couriers across the globe. Peter Hazlehurst, the head of Uber Money said that the drivers will get a mobile bank...

It just over 7 years that social media giant Facebook decided to conduct an IPO. Since then, Facebook (FB) stock has been one of the favorite picks for investors looking for handsome returns.If we look at the Facebook stock price chart since May 2012, we can see a steady rise with minor swings until July 2018. It was in July last year when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out showing Facebook’s alleged breach of data and user privacy. The FB stock took a massive hammering losing 33% of...

The fact remains that you will still need a well-cushioned portfolio and follow some very basic rules about your earnings and spending to be comfortable. According to Stephen Fry, who is a certified financial planner and founder Safe Landing Financial, using a Monte-Carlo simulation, which is one of the most mathematically accurate ways of determination of financial outputs a tax-deductible account with inflows of a $100,000 a year or $65,000 per year in dividends, would do the trick quite...

Sir Richard Branson’s private space tourism company Virgin Galactic Inc. started its trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) via a direct listing at $12.10 on Monday under the ticker “SPCE”.The move comes after the Galactic merged with Chamath Palihapitiya’s venture Social Capital Hedosophia that gave the new company a combined valuation of $1.5 billion. Branson kept a 51% stake in the business.CEO George Whitesides said:“Virgin Galactic is making history again today as it becomes the...

Stocks in Chinese blockchain A-share companies “maxed out” to their 10% daily limit after a president Xi Jinping focused the attention of the public to the potential of the technology encouraging digital currencies, increasing the rise in related stocks and Bitcoin, which for the short time, though, went over $10,000.Xi said China should hurry up with its research into blockchain, the open ledger system that cryptocurrencies rely on. China’s central bank has been developing its own digital...

Hurricanes have been causing extensive damage to the islands of the Bahamas for millennia. The Central Bank of the Bahamas plans to pilot the first cryptocurrency in the form of Sand Dollars. Project Sand Dollars offers numerous benefits that can help individuals and businesses to recover, including having the means to quickly access finances and purchase needs after a natural disaster. Hurricanes have been ravaging the Bahamas for centuries. According to travel advice website...

While this may come as a surprise to many but the less known and less trendy Pinduoduo has overtaken the upscale internet retailer JD.com both in share price and valuation. The share price rose on NASDAQ more than 12% to $39.96 giving it a market capitalization of $46 billion ahead of JD’s $45 billion. This makes Pinduoduo the 4th largest internet Chinese company whose shares are listed in another country with Meituan at $65.572 billion, Tencent at $385 billion, Alibaba at $449 billion. This...

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced support for blockchain last Thursday. The news was welcomed by the crypto community as Chinese altcoins such as NEO, TRON and Qtum skyrocketed over the weekend. Analysts believe that there’s more to the hype and speculation that powered the move of Chinese coins in their USD and BTC pairs. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Thursday that his country should “take the leading position in the emerging field of blockchain,” according to a...

LVMH, the French multinational luxury goods company and owner of the Louis Vuitton and Givenchy brands, has made an official offer to acquire Tiffany & Co., the popular American luxury jewelry retailer. LVMH hopes to expand its business, by taking a direct dive into the United States markets for luxury fashion items and has chosen to do this through Tifanny.According to a Bloomberg report, LVMH is offering $14.5 billion for the acquisition which was noted by certain people who are privy...