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Vest startup protects you from losing all your money in the stock …

VestVest cofounder Karan Sood.See AlsoA Beginner’s Guide To Stock OptionsThe Truth About The Skype Execs Who Got “Screwed” In The Microsoft BuyoutNever Forget: A Founding CEO’s Real Job Is To Find A Repeatable Business ModelA new generation of millennial investors is coming of age with money to save. But one problem for Wall Street is that many of these millennials […]

An Expert That Correctly Called The Last Two Stock Market Crashes …

An Expert That Correctly Called The Last Two Stock Market Crashes Is Now Predicting Another One
By Michael Snyder, on July 28th, 2015What I am about to share with you is quite stunning.  A well-respected financial expert that correctly predicted the last two stock market crashes is now warning that we are right on the verge of the next one.  […]

Stox Gets $8M Series A To Make Equities Trading More Accessible …

Stox is an online broker that wants to make trading stocks less mystifying for new investors. The London-based company announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A round led by Singulariteam.The site is currently in beta in the U.K. and will launch in the U.S. later this year. Once it opens to the public, it will join a […]

Huobi Will Now Take Your Bitcoins as Stock Trading Collateral

Huobi has launched a service allowing users to mortgage their bitcoins in return for Chinese yuan (CNY) loans to purchase real shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.The platform, Caimao, allows investors disappointed with the recent slump in bitcoin price to put that value to use in an asset class that has grown 125% in the past year.Customers will use the Caimao […]

Etsy prices shares at $16 for stock market debut – Phys.org

Etsy priced its shares at $16 ahead of its Thursday Wall Street debut for the online marketplace known for handicrafts and strong social values.

The share price valued Etsy at $1.78 billion and promised to raise about $267 million for the Brooklyn, New York-based firm.
The stock is set to trade on the Nasdaq market Thursday under the symbol “ETSY.”
Etsy was founded […]

YC Startup Direct Match Aims To Make Bond Trading As Easy As …

Jim Greco sat in front of his computer at Jeffries Investment Bank headquarters in New York and thought about the futility of his bond trading job. He was about to pull up a file on his PC and then make a physical phone call to another institution to place an order for a bond transaction. Something needed to be done.Unlike the stock […]

Scope of Online Share Trading Rising with Flexibility of the Market

Scope of Online Share Trading Rising with Flexibility of the MarketThe market that deals in shares and stocks can be depicted as a fluid that supports the probability factors of density and viscosity at any possible time slot. So trading with such unexpected scenario can be tough and sketchy if an individual is not at all updated with these abrupt […]

This App Wants To Take Stock Trading Away From Fat Cats And Put …

Since the financial crisis, the credibility of Wall Street has taken a beating. These days MBA graduates are as likely to work at socially minded start-ups as mega-banks. And day trading isn’t quite the popular sport it was in the helter-skelter days of the 1990s. Helping the planet is cool. Making unthinkingly large amounts of money is not.In this context, […]

Tradiio Thinks a Virtual Music Stock Market Is a Good Idea – Digital …

Tradiio Thinks a Virtual Music Stock Market Is a Good Idea
Thursday, November 20, 2014
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Nina Ulloa

Tradiio is a new platform/game that will soon launch. The platform is scheduled to go live in England in February 2015, but is based in Portugal, according to Dinheiro Vivo.
Tradiio says the platform will be free.
Users will listen to artists who have uploaded their music to […]

Making Big Data Think Bigger – NYTimes.com

PhotoA graphic visualization of the mobile industry, ranging from hardware makers to media providers. Software, denoted in yellow, plays an increasingly large and interconnected role in the industry.Credit Rahul BasoleBig-data management promises a significant shift in the way decisions are made across the economy. Abundant new sources of data from the web, sensors and smartphones, mined for patterns and insights […]