by Cyprian Francis | Mar 4, 2017 | Blog, Business, Technology, Trading
Bitcoin continues to gain ground on gold after climbing above it for the first time on Thursday. The cryptocurrency trades up 2.6% at 1271 a coin while the yellow metal is down 0.6% at $1227 per ounce, as of 7:25 a.m. ET. Both currencies have seen a solid start to...
by Cyprian Francis | Mar 4, 2017 | Blog, Business, Technology, Trading
A private high school in California earned millions from the Snap Inc. public offering, after two students told their dad about the popularity of the app five years ago. Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, Calif., invested $15,000 in Snapchat’s seed round when...
by Cyprian Francis | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog, Trading
It’s a deal made in fast-food heaven: Restaurant Brands International , the corporate entity behind Burger King and Tim Hortons , is acquiring Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen for a whopping $1.8 billion. Now in theory, that seems like a lot of money, but Mark...
by Cyprian Francis | Dec 31, 2016 | Blog, Trading
The New York Mercantile Exchange will shut down it’s open-outcry trading floor, where traders have jostled one another while calling out orders to buy and sell contracts for oil and other commodities for decades. Earlier in the year, Chicago-based CME Group Inc.,...
