Apple Market Cap Slips Below $2 Trillion

For the first time this year, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has seen its market cap dip below $2 trillion. Shortly after Monday’s opening bell, the world’s most valuable company’s market cap dropped from $2.048 trillion as of Friday’s close to around $1.987 trillion. Only 24 U.S.-listed companies have market caps of between $150 billion and […]

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Market Lessons From a Year of Pandemic

We are now a full year into the coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully this is the last full year we will spend in a pandemic-driven economic and social lockdown, but that depends on variants, vaccination rates, and other factors beyond the world of finance. That said, now is a good time to look back at the year […]

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What the Stock Market Was Worth the Year You Were Born

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed out a tumultuous 2020 by hitting a record high of over 30,600 points. It has since climbed even higher, leaving shareholders and analysts wondering how long the market can continue to rise before the next major sell-off. Though the DJIA comprises only 30 stocks, it is often regarded as […]

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Apple’s Market Value Reaches 20 Times IBM’s

Another earnings disaster pushed International Business Machines Corp.’s (NYSE: IBM) market capitalization to $117 billion. To show how little faith investors have in the company, note that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), the world’s market cap leader, has a valuation of $2.3 trillion, about 20 times IBM’s. IBM ranked seventh among all Fortune 500 companies in […]

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Cryptocurrency market value tops $1 trillion as Bitcoin surges

More On: cryptocurrency Bitcoin hits new record above $35,000 following massive drop Jack Dorsey rails against feds’ proposed cryptocurrency rules Bitcoin as ‘alternative’ currency for investors? It could happen Bitcoin price plunges after reaching all-time high The value of the cryptocurrency market topped $1 trillion for the first time Thursday as Bitcoin surged to yet […]

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The baseball card market is thriving thanks to COVID-19

Forget the anxiety of the stock market, savvy investors are looking to Mickey Mantle. Baseball cards are a safe, reliable way to grow your investment portfolio, according to a new report, the Daily Mail reported. And it’s all about blue-chip names like Yankee legend Mantle. In 1988, a mint-condition Mantle rookie card sold at auction […]

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