RobinhoodRobinhood is now available to the general public.
It’s sleek. It’s easy to use. It’s designed to give first time, small-scale investors a leg up on Wall Street hotshots.
And after months of waiting, it’s now open to anyone who wants to join.Robinhood, a zero-commission brokerage app for iPhone that launched in December to a 700,000-person waitlist, is now available to the […]
Thomson ReutersWorkers prepare for the opening of an Apple store in HangzhouBy Noel RandewichSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Activist Investor Carl Icahn thinks Apple Inc is already worth over $1 trillion but others on Wall St. think it will take a few more years for the iPhone maker’s stock value to get there.With Apple’s stock market value ballooning this week beyond […]
Apple shares are currently valued at roughly $124 each in intraday trading, giving the Cupertino-based company a record-breaking market cap exceeding $720 billion. Apple stock continues to rise after the iPhone maker became the first U.S. company to close with a market cap over $700 billion on Tuesday, the same day in which CEO Tim Cook spoke live at the […]
FidelityProceed with caution.
Fidelity’s mobile app has a new feature called Stocks Nearby. It gives users a list of public companies they can trade in, based on whether those companies have locations nearby.
Josh Barro has the full rundown over at the New York Times.But here’s the bottom line: This makes a bad idea worse.Fidelity is home to the Magellan Fund, once […]
Local lawmakers are proposing a bill that would allow businesses to open investment accounts.A Queens teen says a viral magazine story portraying him as a stock-market whiz was all made up.”Frozen” Director Apologizes to Parents for “Let It Go”
A day after New York magazine published a story online describing how Stuyvesant High School senior Mohammed Islam made millions of dollars […]
Trading stocks on your iPhone without spending a fortune is finally here.And by that, we mean that Robinhood’s long-awaited app is finally available after about six months of beta testing, one-and-a-half years after the company was founded.Robinhood’s founders, Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, two young men with backgrounds in finance, set out to build a mobile-only solutions for stock trading. […]
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It was just a few weeks into the new school year when Connor Bruggemann decided to play sick. He holed up in his bedroom, shut the door, and opened his laptop. Over the summer his father had opened an Etrade account for him, using around $10,000 Bruggemann had saved up over two years working as a busboy and […]
Breaking–A+Apple reaches record breaking $700 billion market cap as stock surge continuesBy Neil HughesTuesday, November 25, 2014, 06:42 am PT (09:42 am ET)Shares of Apple reached another major financial milestone on Tuesday, crossing the $700 billion market capitalization threshold just after trading began on Wall Street.
With shares of AAPL trading at an all-time high, Apple is more valuable than it […]
With Apple at record highs, its market capitalization is now bigger than Russia’s entire stock market (the 20th largest market in the world). What’s more, as Bloomberg notes, there would be enough money left over after selling Apple and buying Russia to purchase over 190 million contract-free 64Gb iPhone6 Pluses (enough for every Russian).As Bloomberg adds,
If you owned Apple Inc., […]
I’m too depressed this morning to write anything useful.Yesterday I “visited” my bank safety deposit box and leafed through a pile of share certificates. There was the magazine that went broke. There were the many biotech drugs that failed their human trials and never got FDA approval. There’s the New England bank that’s actually doing well but refuses to pay […]
