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In this article DBX Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi (C) celebrate the launch of Dropbox’s initial public offering as they ring the opening bell at Nasdaq MarketSite, March 23, 2018 in New York City. Getty Images Company: Dropbox Inc. (DBX) Business: Dropbox is a single organized platform where users can create

In this article OMEG A set of SkySat satellites before a launch. Planet Satellite imagery and data specialist Planet Labs is preparing to go public, announcing on Wednesday that it will merge with a SPAC to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Planet Labs is combining with special purpose acquisition company dMY Technology Group

Amazon (AMZN) competes head-to-head for market share with some of the largest corporations in the world. While Amazon started out as an online retailer of books, it has grown over the decades to become the largest e-commerce company by revenue in the United States. In its quarterly and annual financial statements, Amazon breaks down where

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions Charles P. Rettig, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, during the Senate Finance Committee hearing titled The IRS Fiscal Year 2022 Budget, in Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2021. Tom Williams | Pool | Reuters Wells Fargo‘s decision to pull customers’ credit lines was lambasted

A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past a Wells Fargo & Co. bank branch in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 9, 2020. Peter Foley | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wells Fargo is ending a popular consumer lending product, angering some of its customers, CNBC has learned. The bank is shutting down all existing

Willis Towers Watson PLC (NASDAQ: WLTW) became one of the largest multinational insurance advisory and brokerage firms at the start of 2016 with the merger of Willis Group Holdings PLC and Towers Watson & Company in a deal valued at $18 billion. As of July 8, 2021, the company had a market capitalization of about

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder and CEO, Circle  David A. Grogan | CNBC Payments and digital currency firm Circle plans to go public later this year through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Concord Acquisition Corp. The deal, which Circle announced on Thursday, is expected to close in the fourth quarter and would value the company

Hedge fund founder Anthony Scaramucci told CNBC on Wednesday that the Chinese government’s crackdown on Didi Global, just days after the ride-hailing giant went public in the U.S., is “a direct assault on global capitalism.” “The bad news for the Chinese and the United States now is, if you’re a capital allocator in the United

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world’s largest online retailer, has grown rapidly in a broad range of businesses including its core e-commerce operations, cloud services, and digital advertising. It also sells products such as the Alexa personal assistant and ecosystem, Kindle e-reader, Fire TV, and movies and television shows through its Amazon Prime Video platform. Amazon’s

Olena Ruban | Moment | Getty Images Cannabis industry investors have been treated to a series of legislative catalysts over the last three years that have moved equity valuations.  Notable moments include Canada’s federal adult-use implementation, the election of President Joe Biden, and the Georgia Senate run-off in January. Additionally, the state-by-state legalization movement is

In this article WB DIDI TME The Didi ride-hailing app on a smartphone arranged in Beijing, China, on Monday, July 5, 2021. Yan Cong | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S.-traded shares of prominent Chinese companies were under pressure on Tuesday after the Asian country’s officials launched a cybersecurity review of Didi, fueling concerns about

Founded in 1935, the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, generally known as PenFed, is a large financial institution with branches across the U.S. and on military bases around the world. While PenFed does cater to those in military service and their families, its membership isn’t limited: Anyone can join the credit union and use its variety

In this article CFV A satellite image of the stuck container ship Ever Given in Egypt’s Suez Canal, taken on March 25, 2021. Satellogic Satellite Earth imagery specialist Satellogic is preparing to go public, announcing on Tuesday that it will be the latest in a string of space companies merging with SPACs. Satellogic is merging

In this article DSX EGLE GNK GOGL SBLK 316-HK 1919-SZ Aerial view of shipping containers sitting stacked at Shenzhen Yantian Port on February 27, 2021 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. Xie Feng | Getty Images Skyrocketing shipping prices, exacerbated by limited vessel supply, could bode well for some of analysts’ favorite shipping stocks. Global

An equity-indexed annuity is a type of fixed annuity that is distinguished by the interest yield return being partially based on an equities index, typically the S&P 500. The general appeal of equity-indexed annuities is to moderately conservative investors who like having some opportunity to earn a higher investment return than what’s available from traditional

Salary caps are a hot topic in sports, debated from the most casual of sports fans to the highest tiers of professional clubs. Enforcing a limit to how much a team can spend on their athletes’ salaries has been around at least since the Great Depression. For most professional sports, teams must adhere to a

Before Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger became known as iconic business partners, steering the Berkshire Hathaway empire, they were just two guys from Omaha, Nebraska, who, apparently, were a lot a like. They discovered that thanks to a well-known doctor in town, Dr. Edwin Davis, who told Buffett in a 1957 meeting he trusted him

The concept behind the value investing philosophy is simple: investors can realize tremendous gains by purchasing securities that trade well below their intrinsic value. In his books Security Analysis (1934) and The Intelligent Investor, (1949) Benjamin Graham—the godfather of value investing—explained to investors that, “a stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic

Sir Richard Branson may be trying to be first in the billionaire space race, but he believes there is plenty of opportunity in the market for companies like Virgin Galactic, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, or Elon Musk’s SpaceX. “There’s room for 20 space companies to take people up there,” Branson said in an interview this

In this article AMC GME Michael Burry attends the “The Big Short” New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on November 23, 2015 in New York City. Jim Spellman | WireImage | Getty Images “The Big Short” investor Michael Burry believes Reddit-favored meme stocks are set to crash like the dot-com and housing market bubbles of