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Fintech Focus For September 22, 2020
Monday, September 21, 2020 - 7:33pm | 1543Quote Of The Day: A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. - Aristotle Fintech Movers: Federally chartered banks can hold reserve funds for stablecoin issuers, according to new guidance from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. - Block Binance creates exclusive Innovation Zone....
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Notable Insider Buys of the Past Week: Nikola, Transdigm And More
Sunday, September 20, 2020 - 10:09am | 714Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors when markets are near all-time highs. One beneficial owner took advantage of secondary offerings at three different companies. A chief executive officer under fire also picked up some shares last week. ...
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Benzinga's Bulls And Bears Of The Week: Amazon, Boeing, Kroger And More
Saturday, September 19, 2020 - 4:31pm | 941Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. This past week's bullish calls included an e-commerce colossus and some surprises. An aerospace leader and a supermarket operator were among last week's bearish calls. As the third-quarter winds...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Amazon, Crocs, GM, Microsoft And More
Saturday, September 12, 2020 - 3:16pm | 664Andrew Bary and Avi Salzman's "Retail Investors Are Fueling the Nasdaq's Wild Ride" points out how heavy buying of call options on stocks like Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) are having a big impact. In "The Pandemic Helped Crocs Kickstart Growth. Why...
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Fintech Focus For September 9, 2020
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 7:02pm | 2210Quote Of The Day: We have seen peak rebound. - Joachim Fels Fintech Movers: Defi is not even close to the ICO hype bubble level yet. Bubbles are usually the result of a euphoric retail crowd running ahead of itself. - Coindesk BSP pushes digital bank framework. Policygenius a fast-growing fintech...
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Fintech Focus For August 12, 2020
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 6:38pm | 2605Daily Perspective: Growth can heal a lot of sins. - Cathie Wood Fintech Movers: American Express Company is in talks with Kabbage, an online fintech lender backed by Softbank, over an $850 million acquisition. - Benzinga Finicity: The COVID Credit Crisis. Infor, CIBC, SunStream partner. A GM...
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The Daily Dash: Trucking's Payroll Tax Problem, Nikola's Surprise Order And Trucker Sentenced
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 11:43am | 803The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today's edition, trucking ponders its next move following President Donald Trump's payroll tax deferment order. Plus, Nikola receives a huge order from an unexpected source; Cummins and Navistar ink a new deal; and a...
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Nikola Tesla Biopic Sees A World His Namesakes Seek To Create
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 12:44pm | 757Electric truck makers Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) and Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) make the news almost daily as they seek to transform over-the-road transportation. A new biopic on the late 19th and early 20th-century inventor from whom they take their names suggests Nikola Tesla saw the world...
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Tesla Analyst Says Nikola Badger Preorders Should Give Investors Clues To The Electric Pickup Market
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 1:20pm | 552Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA), the new kid on the electric vehicle block, has started accepting preorders for its Badger electric pickup truck, which is seen as direct competition to Tesla Inc's (NASDAQ: TSLA) Cybertruck. The Tesla Analyst: Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives has a...
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Can Nikola Unseat The Ford F-150?
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - 1:27pm | 120Andrew and Kevin are joined again by fellow Freight Intel Group member Seth Holm to discuss the state of the automotive industry and how quickly it can recover. Special thanks as always to our friends at CarrierDirect for their research contributions. Photo: Nikola
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Fuel Cell Class 8 Startup Nikola Going Public With $3.3 Billion Valuation
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 12:49pm | 351Fuel cell Class 8 truck startup Nikola Corp. will become a public company with a $3.3 billion valuation in a merger with VectoIQ (NASDAQ: VTIQ), a startup holding company run by long-time Wall Street deal maker and former General Motors Co. Vice Chairman Steve Girsky. Nikola will get $525 million...
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The Tesla Cybertruck Has A New Rival, The Nikola Badger
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 10:55am | 561Nikola is entering the green pickup game. On Monday, the young automaker unveiled its Hydrogen Badger Pickup to complement its semi fleet. “Nikola has billions worth of technology in our semi-truck program, so why not build it into a pickup truck?” Nikola founder and CEO Trevor Milton...
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CES 2020: A View Of The Nikola Two Interior With Trevor Milton
Friday, January 10, 2020 - 11:53am | 1076The interior of the Nikola Motors Two Class 8 semi-tractor takes cues from modern airplane cockpits with only a handful of buttons and switches. Drivers perform most functions via waterproof touch screens that can withstand a high-pressure hosing. Nikola so far is noted for its futuristic exterior...
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Nikola, BYD Team Up On Emissions-Free Beer Run
Friday, November 22, 2019 - 10:18am | 426Hydrogen fuel cell electric truck maker Nikola Motor Co. and Chinese battery-electric truck maker BYD teamed up to make an emissions-free beer delivery to the arena where the NHL Champion St. Louis Blues play hockey. In the Nov. 21 test run, Nikola picked up a load of beer at the Anheuser-Busch...
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Nikola Claims Battery Tech Breakthrough To 600-Mile Range
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 12:22pm | 474Hydrogen fuel cell electric truck startup Nikola Corp. is touting a high-storage battery that could increase the current range of electric passenger cars from 300 to 600 miles with no increase in battery size. "This is the biggest advancement we have seen in the battery world," said Trevor Milton...