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Fintechs Drive Busiest December for IPO Market in the Last 5 Years

Fintechs Drive Busiest December for IPO Market in the Last 5 Years

The IPO market enjoyed a late-year comeback as demand for fintech stocks overcame negativity from the failed WeWork deal. At least $2.7 billion of initial public offerings have priced this month, according to ClickIPO. It was the busiest month since September and the...

Santa Comes Early for Investors as FANG Stages Late Year Comeback

Santa Comes Early for Investors as FANG Stages Late Year Comeback

Santa came early this year, giving stock investors their tenth positive week in the last 11. High-profile technology stocks led the charge. The S&P 500 rose 1.7 percent between Friday, December 13, and Friday, December 20. The index continued its breakout into new...

Stocks Keep Rising as U.S. and China Formalize Key Trade Deal

Stocks Keep Rising as U.S. and China Formalize Key Trade Deal

Stocks rose to new highs last week as China and the U.S. formalized a trade deal, easing tensions between the world's two largest economies. The S&P 500 rose 0.7 percent between Friday, December 6, and Friday, December 13. It was the 10th positive week in the last...

Risk Appetite Sweeps Market as Powell Freezes Interest Rates

Risk Appetite Sweeps Market as Powell Freezes Interest Rates

Optimism is spreading in the stock market as the Federal Reserve freezes interest rates. Companies that benefit from stronger global growth rose yesterday after the central bank kept interest rates unchanged. Those include semiconductors, emerging markets, materials...

Roku and Tesla Dominate Activity: November at TradeStation

Roku and Tesla Dominate Activity: November at TradeStation

A pair of heavily traded technology stocks dominated activity at TradeStation this month amid a flurry of news. Streaming-video stock Roku (ROKU) was the busiest symbol across our accounts, eclipsing even the market-tracking SPDR S&P 500 fund (SPY) and Apple...

FANG Gets Disrupted as the Dow Strikes Back

FANG Gets Disrupted as the Dow Strikes Back

Two major "FANG" stocks are getting disrupted as members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average take business back into their own hands. First, Nike (NKE) announced it will stop selling merchandise on Amazon.com (AMZN). Second, Walt Disney's (DIS) new Disney+ service got...

Are You Ready? November 2019 Is a Huge Month for Streaming Media

Are You Ready? November 2019 Is a Huge Month for Streaming Media

A whole new world of digital media is starting this month, thanks to some of the biggest companies in the world. Two new online video services with the potential to reach hundreds of millions -- if not billions -- of viewers just launched. In coming seeks, two giant...

There’s All Kinds of Positive News Involving China Today

There’s All Kinds of Positive News Involving China Today

November 7, 2019: Did the tide just turn in U.S. relations with China? Consider the flood of positive news today. First and foremost, Beijing and Washington agreed to simultaneously cancel tariffs on each other. The news directly rebuffed nagging press reports this...