Though mortgage rates have pulled back somewhat from the sharp gains triggered by the Fed’s mid-September meeting, fixed-rate averages are inching back up. The 30-year rate average is now back to within six points of the three-month high set a week ago. Today’s National Mortgage Rate Averages Mortgage rates climbed modestly Tuesday, wth the major
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Greenidge Generation Holdings (NASDAQ:GREE) is a player in the Bitcoin (CCC:BTC-USD) mining industry that came to my attention recently. The company listed on the Nasdaq exchange through a merger with meme favorite Support.com. The merger news may have been a disappointment with Reddit traders hoping to take what was SPRT stock “to the moon”. Source:
Buzz around The Metals Company (NASDAQ:TMC) stock will remain high in the coming weeks and months. TMC stock has been volatile since its Sept. 10 SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) merger with Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition. Source: Manu Galdamez/ShutterStock.com The merger didn’t go exactly as planned, which has undoubtedly injected increased volatility into share prices. For
David McDonough, founder and CEO of Commonstock Commonstock A new social network is betting that enthusiastic retail traders are here to stay and that they want more transparency than what’s offered on Reddit. Commonstock is a social media platform for talking about trades and financial markets. It features a Twitter-like news feed, with users ranking
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Lordstown Motors (RIDE) – The electric truck maker was downgraded to “underweight” from “equal-weight” at Morgan Stanley, which notes that the recently announced sale of Lordstown’s Ohio plant to Foxconn values the plant at less than a fifth of prior estimates. Lordstown tumbled
IronNet (NYSE:IRNT) stock has dropped dramatically since its merger with LGL Systems Acquisition Corp closed. . However, the drop did not occur because investors disliked the deal between the companies. Source: Shutterstock In fact, IRNT stock steadily climbed in the days following the Aug. 27 merger. And then, somewhat strangely, the stock actually fell a
They call it FUD: fear, uncertainty and doubt. Based in China, ride-hailing giant Didi Global (NYSE:DIDI) has its fair share of problems, I’ll admit. But there’s also plenty of FUD surrounding DIDI stock. Source: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com For example, reports recently circulated claiming that China’s Beijing city government advised state-owned companies to invest in the
A very popular term in business is disruption, or causing a radical change through innovation. Hippo Holdings (NYSE:HIPO) is a digital homeowners insurance provider that went public in August. Potential HIPO stock investors wonder if this insurance provider will disrupt the insurance market. Source: TDKvisuals / Shutterstock.com It seems to me that HIPO stock lacks
In this article SWX Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn on Tuesday announced a sizeable stake in Southwest Gas, and the activist investor is pushing the Las Vegas-based utility company to drop its rumored acquisition of natural gas company Questar Pipeline.
In this article SWX NKE NFLX Seen through a store window, a Nike employee stands in the entryway of the Nike SoHo store in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Facebook, Amazon, Apple – Shares of major technology companies led Tuesday’s market rebound. Facebook shares rose
One of the most important traits for any investor, business executive or marketer is the ability to identify their target audiences and see things from the latter’s point of view. I believe those who are bullish on Ocugen (NASDAQ:OCGN) stock are failing to do that. OCGN stock has made headlines thanks to the company’s Covid-19
Facebook Inc. (FB), the world’s largest social networking website, was founded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and several Harvard College roommates in 2004. The company’s name initially was FaceMash, which was changed to TheFacebook, eventually dropping “The” from its name to become, simply, Facebook. Zuckerberg and his co-founders initially launched the service for their Harvard classmates,
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It’s definitely fair to say that New York-based Lemonade (NYSE:LMND) is on a mission. If you’re on board with the idea of using AI technology to disrupt insurance as we know it, then a position in LMND stock might be right for you. Source: Stephanie L Sanchez / Shutterstock.com Just to give you a refresher, Lemonade
Often attributed (though no one knows for sure) to Joseph Kennedy, a nevertheless oft-cited quote states, “If shoeshine boys are giving stock tips, then it’s time to get out of the market.” I don’t want to speak out of turn, but I’m having similar reservations about Sphere 3D (NASDAQ:ANY). Suddenly, it seems everyone is eyeballing
William Shatner Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Science fiction will soon become reality, as William Shatner is scheduled to launch on the next crewed spaceflight of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. Blue Origin plans to fly the Canadian actor, who famously played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek television series, as one of the passengers on
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Tesla (TSLA) – Tesla shares rose 3% in the premarket after the company announced it delivered 241,300 vehicles during the third quarter, its most ever for a quarter and a 73% increase over the same quarter a year ago. Moderna (MRNA), Novavax (NVAX)
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is still not the world’s most valuable carmaker. Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM) is, for now. Its resistance to the EV revolution makes TM stock a problem in the long term. Source: josefkubes / Shutterstock.com With a market cap of $1.28 trillion, on what should be sales of $270 billion in 2021, Toyota dwarfs every competitor. Toyota
ViacomCBS (NASDAQ:VIAC) has been a costly disappointment for some investors in 2021. Enthusiasm over the company’s newly-announced streaming plans paired with Reddit-fueled retail investors drove VIAC stock past $100 three weeks into March. That was a 174% gain in under four months. Source: Jer123 / Shutterstock.com A catastrophic crash then saw shares lose half their
Recently, Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) fell fast. Closing at $207.31 per share on Sept. 30, the vaccine play opened at around $190 on Oct. 1. After that, NVAX stock quickly went into free fall, dropping as low as $154 per share. Source: Ascannio/Shutterstock.com The reason? Breaking news of Merck’s (NYSE:MRK) antiviral Covid-19 pill. Interim results suggest it