It’s hard to avoid, but if you haven’t paid much attention to the booming IPO market, 2020 saw a record 480 companies go public, led by names like Snowflake (SNOW), Airbnb (ABNB), DoorDash (DASH), Palantir (PLTR). And picking up right where we left off, less than three weeks into 2021, we’ve seen three companies make
Well in many ways, it appears we’re kicking off 2021, right where we left a tumultuous 2020. But regardless of the optics, it’s not all bad. After a record-setting, 480 IPOs debuted in 2020 headlined by the likes of Snowflake (SNOW), Airbnb (ABNB), DoorDash (DASH), Palantir (PLTR) and more, today we see Affirm (AFRM) kicks things
Diversification. Traditionalists will tell you that’s the name of the game. Late last summer, Walmart (WMT) made its biggest splash outside the world of retail when it partnered with Oracle (ORCL) to bring the Chinese dance app TikTok to the U.S. The agreement, which gives Walmart a 7.5% stake in the newly formed TikTok Global
After a flat Christmas week, stocks popped this morning after President Trump reversed his position on the COVID-19 relief bill and the federal spending omnibus and signed both into law. This second round of stimulus is smaller than the package passed earlier in the year. Individuals will get just $600 in stimulus checks, half the
Cryptocurrencies are divisive subject. You’re either all in on the “future of currency” or you think it’s just another fad for nerds, that will eventually blow over. But, either way you look at it, bitcoin doesn’t seem to be blowing over anytime soon. Quite the opposite in fact. Yesterday, the popular cryptocurrency broke through $20,000
What a year to move to Wall Street! This year alone, we’ve seen 435 companies go public with their IPOs, which is 93% more than we saw in 2019, which had only a modest 225 IPOs by December 10th. With the pandemic turning the stock market landscape on its head, investors have felt an appetite
Interest-free payments!? Sounds too good to be true! In our increasingly-cashless world, the age of digital transactions could be undergoing yet another revolution, making large-scale purchases more attainable for average customers. The financial technology company, Affirm, which will soon go public and trade under the ticker symbol AFRM, currently allows e-commerce customers to split purchases
The company Robinhood, and its stock-trading platform, was founded in 2013 by two Stanford University graduates, who set out “on a mission to democratize finance for all.” Robinhood has gained popularity over the last couple of years, particularly with novice, millennial investors because of its commission-free, mobile-trading app that offers people the ability to invest
Even before so many businesses stopped accepting cash over fears of spreading COVID-19, cashless transactions had begun catching on the last few years. Add in the influx of users adapting platforms like PayPal’s (PYPL) Venmo app, which many businesses have begun adopting but is still dominated by peer-to-peer transactions, along with the growing presence of
We all know about the devastating impacts the pandemic has had on the travel, entertainment and restaurant industries. Growing fears over contracting the virus, which has claimed over 225,000 lives in the U.S. seem to be getting worse as daily positive cases continue to set new records and should put a larger strain on these
Let’s face it, buying Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, or any of the other cryptocurrencies is hard. You need a different account with an unfamiliar company that often requires two-factor authorization and has a host of hoops you must jump through. But now all of that might be a thing of the past, as popular mobile payment
Buy now and pay later, with no interest. Sounds like a pretty good deal, huh? With unemployment rates still up around 8%, further uncertainty about additional economic stimulus and another round of potential business closures as cases of COVID-19 tick back up, the timing of flexible payment methods couldn’t be better. Well, thanks to companies
Vice President Joe Biden holds a commanding lead in the national polls, but some are a bit wary of counting out Trump. We all remember how the 2016 election turned out. Hillary Clinton held a large lead in mid-October, but the polls tightened into election day and Trump pulled off the upset. Though the election
