The German economy contracted at its steepest rate on record in the second quarter as the government desperately trys to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the run-up to elections in the autumn of 2021.

TGT – The market is rapidly moving higher, with the S&P breaking 3,450 today. Should we be embracing this rally? Or be concerned that we’ve come too far, too fast?. Get Free Updates The stock market reached another new all-time high this week. For the first time ever, the S&P 500 traded above 3,450. Measured…

Day trading is quickly growing in popularity as there are many who are seeing that this can become a means to make some money and make it quick. The reality is that it can be quite profitable, but there are serious risks involved. Therefore, it is important to do your homework and live within a…

Robinhood, the investing app that pioneered free trading, saw record trades in June. But what’s good news for the trading app is likely not good news for a user’s long-term financial health, investing experts say.

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The pandemic has left millions of Americans unemployed and lockdowns have left people at home with little to do. Meanwhile, since a crash in March that rivaled that of 1987, the stock market has rebounded. Last Tuesday, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs. Add all that together, and it’s unsurprising that amateur…

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen many new trends established that few could have predicted, plus some more obvious shifts. However, one of the less apparent was probably the explosion and growth of day-trading during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Yifan Ding/Getty Images China is in the midst of its own day-trading boom, with more than 2.4 million new investors flooding to the country’s stock market in July, the biggest increase since the 2015 bubble.

Robinhood, the investing app that pioneered free trading, saw record trades in June. But what’s good news for the trading app is likely not good news for a user’s long-term financial health, investing experts say.

Yifan Ding/Getty Images China is in the midst of its own day-trading boom, with more than 2.4 million new investors flooding to the country’s stock market in July, the biggest increase since the 2015 bubble.

China is in the midst of its own day-trading boom, with more than 2.4 million new investors flooding to the country’s stock market in July, the biggest increase since the 2015 bubble. Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing data from China Securities Depository and Clearing, that the number of new investors opening brokerage accounts hit 2.43 million…

Nicolai Tangen and Yasir al-Rumayyan have had tricky summers for different reasons. Mr Tangen, a successful hedge fund manager in London, is on the verge of taking over as head of Norway’s $1tn sovereign wealth fund. But a big political row has broken out over his alleged conflicts of interest.

Yifan Ding/Getty Images China is in the midst of its own day-trading boom, with more than 2.4 million new investors flooding to the country’s stock market in July, the biggest increase since the 2015 bubble.

Photo credit: BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images Whether it is related to Bitcoin or mainstream stocks, Day Trading is the new “sexy” that gets an inordinate amount of hype.  There are lots of sites that claim to; “turn you into an instant day trader” or promise that, “millions of dollars can be made just investing a…

The upcoming stock splits announced by Apple and Tesla are two high-profile examples of Wall Street capitalizing on the burgeoning interest in fractional shares. The popularity of online day-trading platforms such as Robinhood — which lets users buy as little as $1 worth of a company’s stock — is giving younger and less wealthy investors…

August 18, 2020 Share This There’s a boom in speculative trading, and clients are not immune to the hype, as Ken Van Leeuwen, an independent broker with LPL Financial in New Jersey, can attest after a longtime client called him two weeks ago with an unusual request.

Bitcoin has leaped higher this week, climbing to year-to-date highs and reaching levels not seen since June last year. The bitcoin price jumped almost 4% on Monday to hit highs of $12,470 per bitcoin on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange before falling back slightly.

What does this all mean to us retail investors? In a word, notverymuch. How can I say that after all the publicity the we’re-almost-at-a-new-high phenomenon has generated? And despite the fact that trillions of dollars of investor money are indexed to the S&P?

Mark Cuban has strong views about what is driving the recent bull market gains, and it is not strong economic fundamentals. Despite the U.S. economy contradicting in the second quarter, the stock market is testing record levels, and that has Cuban worried about the eventual fate of many investors who are new to stock investing.