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Former FDA Agent Says Big Pharma Not Likely To Get Involved In Cannabis Industry After Rescheduling
Friday, May 3, 2024 - 9:24am | 862Read More...Three national leaders gathered Wednesday to discuss the impact of the Drug Enforcement Administration's historic move to reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous drug. Removing marijuana from Schedule 1 – the same class as heroin, LSD, meth and ecstasy – to Schedule III along with...
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Barron's Latest Picks And Pans: Amazon, Johnson Controls, Porsche, Walmart And More
Monday, July 5, 2021 - 7:37am | 1059Read More...The cover story in this weekend's Barron's offers investment opportunities as Europe's economy and markets rebound. Other featured articles discuss European airline stocks ready to soar, the worst retail stocks of the first half of 2021 and the passing of the baton at Amazon. Also, see...
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650 US Banks To Offer Bitcoin Purchases After NCR Partnership With NYDIG: Report
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 12:05pm | 367Read More...What Happened: A new deal between enterprise payments company NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) and institutional digital asset custodian NYDIG Bitcoin Strategy Fund (BTCNX) could see 650 U.S. banks offering Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) purchases to their customers. According to a report from Forbes, an...
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Fintech Focus For June 23, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 8:20pm | 2502Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Amazon is the most formidable. If Amazon can get you lower-debt payments or give you a bank account, you’ll buy more stuff on Amazon.” Source: Alex Rampell One Big Thing In Fintech: While headlines from the blockchain industry have recently been dominated...
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Fintech Focus For March 11, 2021
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 10:42pm | 1745Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Source: Tim Ferriss One Big Thing In Fintech: A provisional report from data and research group CB Insights indicates that we’re not merely in a warm period for fintech funding — we are in a period of...
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Fintech Focus For February 9, 2021
Monday, February 8, 2021 - 8:32pm | 2129Read More...Quote To Start The Day: If you can change your mind, you can change your life. Source: William James One Big Thing In Fintech: Tesla has disclosed in an SEC filing published Monday that it has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin. "In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide...
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Fintech Focus For October 23, 2020
Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 7:11pm | 2440Read More...Quote Of The Day: Do not be mistaken. The relative calm we feel right now isn’t the end of the storm, it is just the eye. - Scott Minerd Fintech Movers: Decentralised finance (DeFi) is now being taken seriously by traditional finance. In a European-wide survey of financial institutions...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Canadian Stocks, NCR, Gilead And More
Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 4:03pm | 622Read More...This weekend's Barron's features a look at how Canadian stocks have fared and how to play the trends. Other featured articles discuss one particular Canadian stock that has caught the eye of short sellers and a rising software star benefiting from the ecommerce arms race. The...
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A Catalyst For Cardtronics?
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 1:26pm | 460Read More...Cardtronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CATM), a provider of fully integrated ATMs, cash machines, money machines and bank machine products and services, is scheduled to report its second-quarter results after Thursday's market close. Wall Street analysts are expecting the company to earn $0.77 per share on...
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IBM's Report Weighs On The Dow, Apple Helps Boost The Nasdaq, S&P 500 Extends Winning Streak
Monday, October 20, 2014 - 4:57pm | 2950Read More...U.S. stocks started the week on a positive note as all three major indices ended the day in positive territory. Dow component IBM reported a disappointing third quarter along with a cautious outlook weighing down the entire Dow index. The Nasdaq benefited from high expectations over Apple's...
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Your Local ATM Could Be Vulnerable To Cyberattack Soon
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 10:45am | 567Read More...After April 8, ATMs worldwide could be vulnerable to cyberattack. That’s because April 8 is the last day Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said it would provide regular tech support for Windows XP, which according to Hareetz.com is the software behind 95 percent of the world’s ATMs. Microsoft declined...
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Barron's Recap: Banker to the World
Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 8:51pm | 890Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the outlook for Citigroup, the top financial advisor teams in the country, and the prospects for Entegris and MercadoLibre. Cover Story "Citi's World of Promise" by Sandra Ward. Shareholders should take heed of the vow Citigroup's (NYSE: C) new CEO has made to...
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VeriFone and Other Top Global Payments Stocks
Monday, June 3, 2013 - 1:52pm | 847Read More...Making payments with cash and checks may never completely go out of style, but the rapid changes in electronic money transfer, point-of-purchase payments and the like are making it easier than ever to pay for purchases. Now analysts at UBS (NYSE: UBS) have recommended three stocks in the sector...
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RIM, Green Mountain and Other Top Performing Nasdaq Stocks in November
Saturday, December 1, 2012 - 2:38pm | 597Read More...Here is a quick look at some of the top-performing Nasdaq stocks in the past month. These companies all have a market cap of more than $500 million and their share prices are more than 40 percent higher than 30 days ago. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) shares jumped more than 32...
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CVS, Navistar and Other Stocks Insiders Are Buying
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 12:37pm | 678Read More...Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the share price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...
