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This Little-Known Buy Now, Pay Later Stock Is Up 9,998%: Analysts Think It Still Has Room To Run
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 12:01pm | 807Read More...Buy Now, Pay Later company, Sezzle Inc. (NASDAQ:SEZL) is hardly on Wall Street’s radar despite posting an impressive 9,998% rally since its public listing just two years ago. What Happened: On Monday, the Schwab Network’s senior market correspondent, George Tsilis, discussed the...
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Fed Officials Hint At More Hikes, And 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Platforms Are Booming: What Consumers Should Know
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 6:16pm | 948Read More...As Fed officials propose new hikes in interest rates, consumers have taken to “Buy Now, Pay Later” lending platforms. Are these platforms a haven or a burden on the tightening budgets of the American middle class? More Rate Hikes Coming, But Likely Smaller While the markets are...
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Jack Dorsey-Led Block's Afterpay And Australian Bank Westpac Terminate Partnership
Friday, August 26, 2022 - 5:22am | 473Read More...'Buy now, pay later' company Afterpay Ltd — owned by Jack Dorsey's Block Inc (NYSE: SQ) — and Westpac Banking Corporation (OTC:WEBNF) have ended their partnership after the Australian payments firm rolled back a smartphone app it was...
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Block Inc Q2 Earnings Highlights: Revenue And EPS Beat, Shares Fall On Outlook And Bitcoin Impact
Thursday, August 4, 2022 - 5:05pm | 551Read More...Financial company Block Inc (NYSE: SQ) reported second-quarter financial results after the market close Thursday. Here are the key highlights for investors and details on how Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) impacted the results. What Happened: Block Inc, which changed its name from Square in December,...
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Why Block Analyst Thinks Company's Acquisition Of Afterpay Could Have Transformative Potential
Monday, April 4, 2022 - 11:33am | 347Read More...Block Inc (NYSE: SQ) completed the acquisition of "buy now pay later" specialist Afterpay in January. An analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets sees the acquisition as imparting transformative potential. The Block Analyst: Josh Beck maintained an Overweight rating on Block...
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Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Sheds Another $35M In Square, Snaps $19M in Roku
Sunday, August 8, 2021 - 9:30pm | 541Read More...Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest on Friday shed another 127,800 shares, estimated to be worth about $35.16 million, in Square Inc (NYSE: SQ), booking more profits as the stock recorded a 10% weekly gain. SQ shares closed 2.38% lower at $275.10 on Friday but surged 11.3% in the week after a solid earnings...
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Apple Rolling Out Buy Now, Pay Later In Canada With Affirm: What Investors Should Know
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 5:08pm | 448Read More...Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) announced a big push into the buy now, pay later payment option for consumers with its acquisition of AfterPay. The move was seen as one to keep up with rivals, but Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) wasted no time in taking some of Square’s thunder away with an announcement. What...
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Square Lands 2 Upgrades Following Afterpay Buyout
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 12:45pm | 422Read More...Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) shares traded lower on Tuesday, pulling back just a bit following a 12% surge in Monday's session. The Analysts: Raymond James analyst John Davis upgraded Square from Underperform to Market Perform. Cowen analyst George Mihalos upgraded Square from Market Perform to...
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Shorts Get Slammed After Square Stock Skyrockets On Q2 Earnings, Afterpay Acquisition
Monday, August 2, 2021 - 2:11pm | 533Read More...Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) was skyrocketing up over 10% on Monday after trading lower in the premarket session. On Sunday, the payment-focused fintech firm printed its second-quarter 2021 results and announced it had agreed to purchase Australian buy-now, pay-later company Afterpay in an all-stock...
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Square, Robinhood, AMD, GameStop, Alibaba, AMC — Here's What WallStreetBets Is Talking About Heading Into New Week
Sunday, August 1, 2021 - 11:05pm | 646Read More...Heading into a new trading week, Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ), RobinHood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) are among the stocks seeing the highest interest on Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets forum. What Happened: Exchange-traded fund S&P SPDR 500 ETF Trust (...
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Square To Acquire 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Service Afterpay In $29B Deal Amid Speculations Of Apple's Entry Into Space
Sunday, August 1, 2021 - 9:58pm | 498Read More...Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) said it plans to purchase the “buy now, pay later” service provider Afterpay Limited, which is publicly listed in Australia. What Happened: The Jack Dorsey-led company announced Sunday that it had entered into a Scheme Implementation Deed — under...
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Fintech Focus For August 2, 2021
Sunday, August 1, 2021 - 7:49pm | 1817Read More...Quote To Start The Day: "The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Source: Hiram Johnson One Big Thing In Fintech: Square will buy Australia’s Afterpay for about $29 billion in an all-stock deal as the U.S. fintech firm looks to leverage the burgeoning popularity of buy now,...
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Fintech Focus For March 16, 2021
Monday, March 15, 2021 - 5:56pm | 1966Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “When someone tells me something can’t be done, I think there’s always a will and a way.” Source: Randall Kaplan One Big Thing In Fintech: One driving force behind innovation is disruption. That’s according to Allison Beer, the Chief Product...
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Fintech Focus For February 25, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 10:06pm | 1647Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Technology is the best enabler of banking the unbanked. Source: Sultan Meghji One Big Thing In Fintech: An outage at the Federal Reserve is creating settlement issues for many financial institutions and exchanges. The Fed's service status page shows that most of its...
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Fintech Focus For August 26, 2020
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 7:02pm | 2533Read More...Quote Of The Day: Nobody wants to fly across the country for a two hour meeting when you can do it just as well on Zoom. - James Altucher Fintech Movers: The main challenge Central American fintech faces is a lack of tech infrastructure and knowhow. That’s why social impact funds are...
