Today in brighter crypto news: SEC says tokens are securities
Crypto news got a little boost last week after a dark month of crashes, stablecoins and birthdays. The SEC ruled that two ICO issuers, CarrierEQ Inc. and Paragon Coin Inc., were in fact selling...
View ArticleThe highest-flying consumer tech stocks have lost $1 trillion
Another day, another stock market setback for once high-flying technology companies, which have lost roughly $1 trillion in the latest stock market slide. Shares of the core group of consumer...
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Stock markets suffer their worst Christmas Eve trading day
Twas the last trading day before Christmas, and on the trading floor, Most stocks were falling, and then falling some more, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin all the banks had called, In hopes that...
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Apple losses trigger a plunge in US markets
Bad news from Apple and signs of slowing international and domestic growth sent stocks tumbling in Thursday trading on all of the major markets. Investors erased some $75 billion in value from Apple...
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SaaS stocks are coming back to life
Nasdaq’s BVP Emerging Cloud Index measures the performance of a portfolio of 45 SaaS stocks. Like much of the tech world, and the stock market in general, the final quarter of 2018 was not terribly...
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EToro bringing crypto trading and wallet to the US
The social investing and trading platform eToro announced that it will finally be launching its platform in the U.S. The platform, which already operates in more than 140 countries, will be available...
View ArticleLyft increases IPO price
Lyft, expected to hit public markets in a landmark initial public offering Friday, has increased its share price range. In a new filing published Wednesday afternoon, the company outlined plans to...
View ArticleAperture’s Peter Kraus takes aim at passive ETFs and the ‘illusion of free’...
“We’re breaking beta from alpha. That doesn’t exist anywhere. We’re literally saying, ‘Only pay us for alpha and define beta. Nobody has done that.” That’s an energized quote from legendary Wall...
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Dissecting what Lyft’s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec and Kate Clark led a...
View ArticleZoom increases IPO price range ahead of Thursday listing
Zoom, the developer of video conferencing software, plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ZM” at between $33 and $35 apiece, per an updated S-1 filing. The company has also...
View ArticleFearing an escalation of the trade war with China, stock markets plummet…...
Stock markets declined today as investors worried about the potential for an escalating trade war with China sold off shares. Markets had been trading near or above all-time highs before President...
View ArticleSoFi launches gig-focused ETF
SoFi is one of the leading fintech startups to emerge from San Francisco and breach the financial markets. Originally started as a way to better finance student debt, it has since expanded to include...
View ArticleTech stocks tumble as China retaliates in latest salvo of the trade war
Shares of technology companies were hit hard as China retaliated against the U.S. in the latest salvo of the ongoing trade war between the two countries. The S&P 500 Index shed roughly $1.1...
View ArticleShares of SoftBank Group, Uber’s biggest stakeholder, slide after its...
As Uber’s biggest shareholder, SoftBank Group had high hopes for the ridesharing company’s stock market debut last week. Instead, the Japanese conglomerate’s shares have been sliding along with Uber’s...
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Stocks gain back some ground as investors assess the trade war’s impact
Stocks had their best trading day in a while on Tuesday as investors took a break from selling to assess the actual effects of the trade war with China. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the...
View ArticleLuckin leaves bitter aftertaste, now trading below IPO price
In the first few days following Luckin Coffee’s initial public offering, the stock chart for LK looked like a roller coaster. Now it’s looking more like a free fall. The Chinese Coffee chain...
View ArticleSEC expands its war on cryptocurrency companies with a lawsuit against Kik
The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kik Interactive for the $100 million token sale the company announced two years ago. It’s an expansion of legal actions that began last year as the SEC...
View ArticleWorkhorse gets $25 million needed to finish electric delivery van
Workhorse Group, the electric vehicle company that grabbed headlines last month over a proposed deal to buy General Motors’ Lordstown, Ohio factory, has raised $25 million from a group of unnamed...
View ArticleWhat seed-stage dilution tells us about changing investor expectations
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View ArticleGo behind the curtain with Wall Street titan Ray Dalio
Today on Extra Crunch, TechCrunch fintech contributor Gregg Schoenberg went deep beneath the surface with an insider profile of investor Ray Dalio. While Dalio is certainly a celebrity in the world of...
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