January fintech VC roundup: Checkout.com’s $1 billion raise continues the payments spending spree

Quick Take In January 2022, fintechs raised $10.7 billion globally — this is a 45% increase from the same time period of the previous year.   Fintechs have kicked off the start of the year with a bang...

OpenSea shows promising start to February despite UST’s money laundering jitters

Opensea saw a record breaking monthly volume of  $4.9 billion OpenSea raised $780,209,290.88666 in just the first five days of February Monthly Volumes could cross $15 billion in February, experts pre...

Ravendex announces its Staking Platform and a trading competition

Ravendex has announced an exciting trading competition as a mark of celebration of its BitMart listing that took place on 10 January 2022. The Ravendex project is the first DEX (decentralized exchange...

Probes, executive upheaval continue to tank SPAC-backed EV start-ups

Electric Last Mile Solutions CEO James Taylor wanted to separate his electric vehicle company by staying out of controversies that had engulfed many of his competitors. “We have no lawsuits; no ...

Old MacDonald’s Farm No More, Companies Invest In Vertical Agriculture

Vertical farms are opening with addresses in huge agricultural capitals like Chicago, Baltimore and … [+] New York City. getty Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, is taking vertical integrati...

Pfizer Triggers $28 Billion Stock Plunge After Warning Covid Vaccine Sales May Disappoint This Year

Topline Despite skyrocketing revenue from the sale of Covid-19 vaccines, shares of Pfizer plunged Tuesday morning after the pharmaceutical giant issued worse-than-expected revenue guidance for this ye...

Here’s a quick recap of everything Peloton announced on Tuesday

Peloton Interactive Inc (NASDAQ: PTON) is up 20% in the stock market this morning after the connected fitness company named Barry McCarthy as its new CEO effective February 9th. Dan Ives reacts to the...

Rivian or Lucid? Morgan Stanley Weighs In

2021 was a fabulous year for investors in electric cars. In quick succession, Lucid Motors (LCID), Rivian Automotive (RIVN), and Arrival (ARVL) joined industry leader Tesla (TSLA) as publicly traded c...

Chainlink price analysis: Cryptocurrency value depreciates to $18.27 after bearish spin

TL;DR Breakdown Price stumbles to $18.27 after downturn. Chainlink price analysis shows bearish trend. Support for cryptocurrency is $14.36. The latest Chainlink price analysis confirms a bearish tren...

Cardano Wallets Have Increased By 1348% In The Last Year, Surpassing The 3M Mark

 On February 4th, it was discovered that three million ADA wallets were active upon that platform, up from a little over 200,000 at the beginning of 2021 Cardano’s increase in popularity since late 20...

GM shares slide after Morgan Stanley downgrade on EVs, 2022 guidance

A General Motors sign is seen during an event on January 25, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan. – General Motors will create 4,000 new jobs and retaining 1,000, and significantly increasing battery cell...

Consumer debt totals $15.6 trillion after a record-breaking increase in 2021

A customer counts his cash at the register while purchasing an item at a Best Buy store in Flushing, New York. Jessica Rinaldi | Reuters Consumers ended 2021 with record levels of debt, leading into a...

Michael Lewis, three decades after ‘Liar’s Poker,’ says Wall Street is worse in some ways

Michael Lewis Adam Jeffery | CNBC When a 27-year-old Michael Lewis put his head down to write “Liar’s Poker” — the book that ultimately put him on best-selling lists and launched his...

Postal Service Reform Up For House Vote—Here’s What It Means For Your Mail

Topline After years of revenue losses and widely criticized mail delays, the House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill to combat the U.S. Postal Service’s ailing financial condition and add accountabilit...

3 Things Every Investor Is Getting Wrong Now

Businessmen with different opinions getty We’re seeing signs every day that this pouting market is way oversold—and contrarians that we are, we’re going to work this sentiment to grab stout closed-end...

Harley-Davidson up 15% on Tuesday: what’s fuelling the stock?

Shares of Harley-Davidson Inc (NYSE: HOG) are up nearly 15% on Tuesday as the motorcycle company reported an unexpected profit for its fiscal fourth quarter. What the earnings report tells us Harley-D...

Aquis Partners with Investre to Expand Tokenized Retail Trading

Digitalization of the wealth management value chain is moving closer in the international fund management industry, following the partnership between Aquis Technologies, a software and technologies di...

Peloton stock continues rally as company replaces John Foley as CEO

Peloton Interactive Inc.’s newly announced chief executive will face a lowered bar as the maker of exercise equipment once again cut its full-year forecast in the face of slowing demand. Tuesday marke...

A Senior Us Regulator Has Praised Diem’s Stablecoin, The Company Claims

The Diem Association confirmed previous allegations that it was shutting down and selling all of its assets to crypto bank Silvergate for $200 million in a release on Monday evening They engaged exten...

Meet Peloton’s new CEO, Barry McCarthy

Barry McCarthy, chief financial officer at Spotify, attend annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 11, 2018 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Peloton is looking to exper...

Student loan borrowers who default may see child tax credit garnished

staticnak1983 | E+ | Getty Images Millions of parents who’ve defaulted on their federal student loans may get part of their child tax credit seized this tax season. The federal government has lo...

Can Whistleblowing On Meatpackers Curb Retail Prices? Stay Tuned

Today, meat production has consolidated to fewer players. Just four major meatpackers – Tyson, … [+] Cargill, JBS S.A. and Marfrig Global Foods S.A. (through National Beef Packing Co.) – control...

US Commerce Department’s Unverified List Tanks Wuxi And Investor Sentiment

China Last Night KraneShares Key News Going into last night’s market session, I was in a great mood. My weekend reading of institutional research focused on China’s inexpensive valuations, under alloc...

Smooth Love Potion (SLP) is up 29% as Axie Infinity plans to reduce supply by 50%: you can buy SLP here

Smooth Love Potion (SLP) has been on a very strong bullish trend today. At the time of writing, it was up 29% and has hit a daily high of $0.02377 and a low of $0.01525. Today’s rally is mainly attrib...

Virtu Financial Q4 2021 Beat Expectations

Virtu announced its fourth quarter results, beating expectations. Virtu’s total revenue reached $705.6 million. The adjusted net trading income reached a total of $485.6 million. Basic and dilut...

Pfizer Stock Tumbles; Here’s Why Its Triple-Digit Sales Growth Disappointed

Pfizer stock skidded Tuesday as the company predicted a record-setting $100 billion in full-year sales, but that forecast lagged an even more bullish Wall Street estimate. X The company’s guidan...

Tether is ‘a time bomb’ says Congressman Warren Davidson

One member of Congress has noted a major outlier among stablecoins, a topic that’s top of mind on Capitol Hill these days. “Tether, for example, is a time bomb,” said Warren Davidson...

DeFi Project Aave announces Launch of Decentralizeocial media platform on Polygon

TL: DR Breakdown DeFi lending protocol Aave has launched Lens Protocol, a decentralized social media platform built on the Polygon. The open-source “Web3, smart contracts-based social graph” platform ...

“Nintendo Sees ‘great Potential’ In The Metaverse,” – President Satoru Iwata

The metaverse, according to Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa, has a lot of potential Nintendo, on the other hand, needs to think about how to approach space in a unique way, according to him. The ...

Commodity Surge Help AUD and NZD Start a Rally

The week commenced with AUD and NZD trying to sustain a rally with the recent commodity surge. The Australian dollar cemented itself to 0.7131 dollars, securing a 0.7% growth overnight. Similarly, the...

Drug overdoses cost the U.S. around $1 trillion a year, report says

November 30, 2021: OnPoint NYC has opened two supervised drug injection sites in the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods in an effort to address the increase in overdose deaths. (Photo by Yuki...

Meet The Best Original Song Oscar Nominees

HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 27: Singer Beyonce Knowles arrives the 77th Annual Academy Awards at the … [+] Kodak Theater on February 27, 2005 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Carlo Allegri...