Tag: AMZN
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![5 Reasons to buy Facebook (FB.Q) now]()
5 Reasons to buy Facebook (FB.Q) now
On a March 18, 2020 call to NYC media, Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook is experiencing “big surges” in usage. Voice and video-calls on WhatsApp (owned by FB) and Facebook Messenger are 200% higher than normal.
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![How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)]()
How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)
“I’m practicing as much social distancing as I possibly can” stated Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Director of Disease, “I’m working on getting the boss [Trump] to do this. I may not be successful, but we’re working on it.”
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NMC Health (NMHLY.OTC) gets sued – stock surges 90% anyway
Last week, NMC admitted that it identified an additional $2.7 billion in debt, rounding the total debt to around $5 billion. NMC staff were not paid last month.
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Flupocalypse 2020: Assuming you stay healthy, this is your ‘get rich’ moment
When the savings and loan crisis in the US hit in 1989, a lot of slow-moving investors lost their dough thinking the worst couldn’t possible happen. When the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, a lot of folks got torn up as stocks that had previously been 100-baggers went to zero. When the real estate market burned…
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![How Canada’s Shopify (SHOP.T) just kicked Amazon’s (AMZN.Q) ass]()
How Canada’s Shopify (SHOP.T) just kicked Amazon’s (AMZN.Q) ass
In 2019, Shopify spent $1 billion to build fulfillment centers in the U.S., trying to compete with Amazon by deliver packages in less than 48 hours. This effort was described by Shopify CFO Amy Shapero as “energizing the flywheel.”
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![Bezos (AMZN.Q), Branson (SPCE.Q), Musk (TSLA.Q) – how 3 billionaires with big egos are wasting space]()
Bezos (AMZN.Q), Branson (SPCE.Q), Musk (TSLA.Q) – how 3 billionaires with big egos are wasting space
Last spring, in Washington DC, Bezos laid out his long-term vision for Blue Origin, which involves having up to a trillion humans living in “manufactured worlds”.
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![Friday Recap: No Such Thing As Bad Publicity]()
Friday Recap: No Such Thing As Bad Publicity
Big Bets on Volatility Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund has made a bet worth more than $1 billion that markets across the globe will fall by March next year. The bet essentially comprises put option trades against the S&P 500, and the Euro Stoxx 50. One might think that is a major bet,…
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![Bitcoin trader makes dumb greedy bet – loses $16 million – kills himself, triggering painful shotgun-in-mouth memory of even dumber, greedier Amazon (AMZN.Q) bet]()
Bitcoin trader makes dumb greedy bet – loses $16 million – kills himself, triggering painful shotgun-in-mouth memory of even dumber, greedier Amazon (AMZN.Q) bet
A few weeks ago, a Chinese Bitcoin trader, Hui Yi, embezzled 2,000 Bitcoins, used them as collateral to take a highly leveraged (100x) short position on the price of Bitcoin. The co-founder and CEO of a crypto market analysis platform, Hui got the timing and direction of his bet horrendously wrong. WeChat messages indicate that…
