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I’ve always counted things. I have an obsession with numbers and data. This makes working for a hedge fund seem logical. All my life, I’ve counted and sorted almost everything: macaroni shells on my plate, squares in a parquet floor, freckles on my boyfriend’s neck. Data always has a purpose. One day, I’ll notice an odd shaped “freckle” on my boyfriend and tell him his numbers are off. He’ll go see a dermatologist and find out it’s a melanoma. And, BOOM! I saved him.
By T Emily Robinson5 years ago in Trader
Is This Penny Stock Set To Rocket Higher?. Top Story - February 2021.
In a market where about any stock has at least doubled your investment over the past year, it's easy to get euphoria. There are so-called "experts" popping up every day. Some are legit, while the majority will fade away after a market crash or correction.
By RexFinance5 years ago in Trader
Sensex scales 50,000 points for the first time ever
For the first time since its inception, BSE Sensex, the 30 stock benchmark index, scaled 50,000 points on January 21, 2021. Sensex surged over 200 points and reached an all-time high of 50,126.73, while the Nifty 50 index rose to 14,700 for the first time ever.
By Ann Mary Alexander5 years ago in Trader
Big Tech in Financial Services
Beware, Big Tech is here to eat your lunch. That is today’s equivalent of the great communist threat during the Cold War. What’s behind “Big Tech” then? Usually, we mean FAMGA: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Some people instead look at FAANG: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. Or even GAFA, excluding the much smaller of the group, Netflix. But FAMGA makes more sense because it represents the five largest stocks in the Nasdaq-100 with c.40% of the index of the 100 largest Nasdaq companies. Hence, the Big in Big Tech. They are steadily more active in fintech through patent approvals, partnerships, and investment activity. Banks should be worried. And so should be fintechs. Their eastern cousins, the BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) have been active in financial services for years and are considered pioneers in most aspect. Let’s see… Big Tech in Financial Services: so what?
By Fintech Review5 years ago in Trader
A US Dollar crisis ?
We have entered a period the likes of which we have never seen before. The collapse of the dollar and dollar assets is growing increasingly certain by the day. The money-printing of the dollar designed to inflate assets will end up destroying the dollar.
By Muhammed Yaseen 5 years ago in Trader
Nureca IPO
It is raining IPO's in Indian Stock Market. There is hardly a week without an IPO. The question is, why? What is going on, why is almost every company is rushing to do an IPO and why now? Ideally, in this pandemic situation, when the economy is in a bad shape, companies will avoid doing IPOs. Why are companies doing the exact opposite? All these are valid questions, but not the topic of this article. This article will talk about Nureca and whether I will subscribe to its IPO or not.
By Aditya Kapoor5 years ago in Trader
