Tag: Finance
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I came across an interesting stat today: the estimated value of all the gold in the world is $7.5 trillion. Gold and bitcoin are often compared as stores of value with a limited supply. What if bitcoin became as widely accepted and highly valued as gold? At the current market…
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When it comes to storing value, what could be more iconic than Fort Knox, where the US keeps a large portion of its gold reserves? It’s heavily guarded and contains gold worth over $290 billion. But that along with all other US reserves, at $456 billion, are worth less than…
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Rocket Companies, a mortgage originator, has returned solid profits in 2020’s hot real estate market: Boosted by the boom in mortgage refinancing activity, the company had $15.7 billion in total revenue, or more than triple its $5.1 billion revenue in 2019. Its net income, or profit, skyrocketed to $9.4 billion…
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As COVID forced AMC to close all its movie theaters in the spring of 2020, it played hardball with its landlords in order to survive. From a letter to landlords: “Without revenue from its theatres,” the letter continues, “AMC will cease paying rent and charges under the lease effective as…
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Treasury bonds have been falling hard lately. Their interest rates are up significantly as a result: The yield on the 10-year note, a bellwether for borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to corporate loans, has jumped to near 1.5% from around 1% in a matter of weeks, lifted by increased…
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GameStop shares have tripled in under 24 hours. Naturally, the blue chip investors behind the rise had a solid case for their optimism. After all, what about the ice cream cone? Believe it or not, a GameStop board member posting a picture of a McDonald’s ice cream cone is one…
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AMC burnt over $900 million in the first 9 months of last year*. That presented a bit of a problem. They had just $429 million in cash left going in the fall of 2020, and that would be gone in a matter of months. So, to stave off bankruptcy, AMC…
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So Tesla is doing great, right? And I sure would love to make as much money as Elon Musk! So let’s make our own vehicle startup. What should we call it? Hmm, picking a name is hard. Let’s just go with Tesla’s first name, Nikola! Now we have to make…
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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin claims that even though they pay Robinhood to execute their trades, investors are getting a better deal than they would in public stock markets: Citadel CEO Ken Griffin said Thursday that the system has been “very important to the democratization of finance. It has allowed the…
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Reddit’s Wallstreetbets loves Palantir Technologies, a Denver-based maker of data analytics software. The merry band of traders mention it more than any other stock, but the company has serious problems. Big Losses Palantir claims to make products that analyze data better than anyone else. If that’s true, why has the…
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