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43 Stocks That Will Never Sleep With Robinhood's 24-Hour Trading: What You Need To Know
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 1:02pm | 463Robinhood Markets Inc (NASDAQ:HOOD) is rolling out 24-hour trading, 5 days a week, in an effort to appeal to investors who want the ability to trade whenever they'd like. Though the service is not the first of its kind, it is set to bolster the trading prowess of its user base, providing a...
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'Venmo Meets Robinhood': How Staax Will Let You Pay Your Friends In Stocks And More
Friday, April 1, 2022 - 12:00pm | 1097Gone are the days when simplified trading apps were the paradigm shift in financial services. Consumers now demand more. They want education, information and easy back-and-forth communication with their financial services providers and embedded networks, as well as access. That’s...
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GameStop Frenzy Continues To Inspire More Retail Investors' Jump Into Stock Market
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 5:24am | 477Retail investors are continuing to flock to the stock market, encouraged by their ability to move the markets as evidenced by the GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) trading frenzy earlier this year. What Happened: The major online brokers continue to see rising app download activity and increased web...
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Fintech Focus For December 17, 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 6:26pm | 2091Quote 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 Spotlight: How tZero Is Narrowing The Delta Between Public, Private Assets
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 4:07pm | 867A 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 Inc, a subsidiary of Medici Ventures, the venture capital arm of Overstock.com Inc (NASDAQ: OSTK). After spending a...
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Robinhood Considers Bringing Back User Trading Data
Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 3:00pm | 587Popular trading platform Robinhood is considering making its customer trading data public after shutting it down two months ago. What Happened: Bloomberg reports that Robinhood is deciding whether to make its user trading data public again. “We’re looking into it,” co-founder...
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Experts React To Jobs Report: 'Need For Further Fiscal Action Is Obvious'
Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 12:10pm | 519The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded lower Thursday after the weekly U.S. jobs report from the Labor Department revealed a surprise increase in the number of initial jobless claims. On Thursday morning, the Labor Department reported 870,000 initial jobless claims for the week...
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Millennial Traders Are Making Risky Bets — Here's Why
Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 10:12am | 1214Ease of access to the stock market has led many new and young traders to capitalize on volatility and slashed fees, as risky assets and trading activities have seen volumes spike. That's the big takeaway from a recent E-Trade study, which found that more than half of investors younger...
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The Bull Market Turns 9 Years Old
Friday, March 9, 2018 - 8:28am | 603The current bull market turned nine years old Friday, and it seems appropriate to take a look back and see how far stocks have come since the S&P 500 hit a Financial Crisis low of 676.53 on March 9, 2009. The S&P itself has more than tripled in value, up about 207 percent in those six years...
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1 In 4 US Households Is Financially Supporting An Adult Resident
Sunday, September 3, 2017 - 12:04pm | 462A recent survey from Raymond James found that a surprising number of American households are supporting more than just children. In July, Raymond James conducted a survey of 1,000 American adults between the ages of 45 and 64 and found that more than one out of four American households is...
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E-Trade Launches New Adaptive Portfolio, Seeks To Change Automated Investing
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 3:39pm | 277E-Trade Financial Corp (NASDAQ: ETFC) just launched a new investment solution that combines automated investing and human support, called Adaptive Portfolio. This new tool offers, unlike traditional auto-investing solutions, “a distinctive combination of actively and passively managed funds...
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Make Money On Your Apple Watch
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 9:03am | 331Financial-savvy and technology enthusiasts should get excited over the arrival of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Watch product as it could make their financial management life a bit easier. Companies such as Citigroup, E-Trade and Fidelity Investments are in the process of developing (or have...
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Market Wrap For January 27: China Concerns, Declining Home Sales, Tomorrow's Fed Meeting and Obama's Speech Keep Markets Lower
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 5:48pm | 2489U.S. stocks picked up where they left off on Friday and declined today as investors have plenty on their mind. With earnings being a mixed bag, investors are looking at emerging markets and economic data to support a bullish case for equities. On the emerging market front, investors remain...
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One Company's Goal: Making Investment User-Friendly for the Next Generation
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 4:05pm | 575E-Trade and Charles Schwab may have achieved breakthroughs in accessibility to markets and the speed of execution a couple of decades ago, but the user experience barrier hasn't been broken until now. Enter Kapitall, a company that aspires to continuously reinvent what it means to be an...
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Who Should Replace Gilbert Gottfried? (AFL, ETFC)
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 1:46pm | 424Mom always said that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. But maybe she should have said, “If you can't say something nice, your employer might fire you.” Last night after the market close, Aflac (NYSE: AFL) announced that it had severed ties with the squeakiest voice in...