Alibaba founder Jack Ma celebrates its September IPO at the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The IPO market is about to put a bow on its busiest year since 2000, but despite a number of huge successes the figures underlying a banner year show new entrants to the market are facing tougher grading from investors.With 273 U.S. IPOs […]
Poker News :: Dec 12, 2014 :: Steve RuddockAmaya Gaming Part of AMF Stock Trading ProbeAmaya Gaming, along with two investment firms, are the subjects of a securities probe being conducted by Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) according to Forbes Nathan Vardi.According to Vardi’s report, the AMF along with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided Amaya’s Montreal headquarters on Wednesday, […]
Updated 10:19 a.m. PT with comments from Lending Club’s chief operating officer.Lending Club this morning kicked off a parade of tech IPOs this week, with executives hitting the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and then watching the stock price soar way above prices they had set. At around 10:41 a.m. Eastern the stock exceeded $25.The Financial Times pegged […]
Dubai stocks fell 7.4% on Thursday, the worst one-day drop for that market since 2009 as oil price declines hammer the outlook for the country.Here’s the ugly chart of Thursday’s action, which wrapped up trading at 5 a.m. ET.Bloomberg.comThursday’s drop also wiped out almost all of the remaining gains seen by Dubai’s stock market since the start of February as […]
Benchmarks settled in the green on Friday boosted by upbeat jobs data. The S&P 500 reached its 49th record high this year and the Dow registered the same for the 34th time this year. The S&P 500 and the Dow also registered their seventh successive week of gains. However, the Nasdaq ended in the red for the week.For a look […]
Biodefense Breaking News: Ebola Patient Who Received Aethlon (OTCBB: AEMD) Hemopurifier® Therapy Has Been Discharged From HospitalSAN DIEGO – November 25, 2014 (Investorideas.com newswire) Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD), the pioneer in developing targeted therapeutic devices to address infectious disease and cancer, disclosed today that an Ebola patient who received Hemopurifier® therapy has been reported to have been discharged from Frankfurt […]
The career of media mogul James Altucher could be likened to a 20-year roller coaster ride, or a sprint through a minefield. Few have experienced a career as erratic, and with as many highs and lows as that of Altucher. Despite his many setbacks, he has been a pace setter in the fields of finance, corporate ownership, management, writing, blogging […]
WASHINGTON — Without QE, will the stock market tank? Count me a skeptic.QE refers to “quantitative easing,” the Federal Reserve’s multitrillion-dollar program of bond buying that is now ending. I recently devoted a column to whether QE worked as intended. The short answer is that we don’t know. The idea was that by buying bonds the Fed would inject money […]
The head of the British electronic spy agency GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, created a minor flap last week in an article he wrote for the Financial Times. In effect, Hannigan argued that more robust encryption procedures by private Internet companies were unwittingly aiding terrorists such as the Islamic State (IS) or al Qaeda, by making it harder for organizations like the […]
Guest Post from Peak ProsperityIn an exclusive interview of John Hussman by Peak Prosperity’s Chris Martenson, Hussman says Stock Market Is Overvalued By 100%.Chris Martenson: John Hussman is highly respected for his prodigious use of data and adherence to what it tells him about the state of the financial markets. His regular weekly market commentary is widely regarded as one […]
