Before it even had a formal product on the market, Snowflake had achieved a valuation of $3.5 billion, a clear sign of the confidence investors had in the firm’s innovative approach to data warehousing and cloud technology.
Snowflake’s disruptive approach to these two items have revolutionized the way organizations manage and use their data.
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Yiren Digital is likely not a company you have heard of but in China it has been growing like a weed thanks to two primary fintech offerings: CreditTech and Wealth Management.
With the rapid growth of China’s fintech sector and the increasing demand for digital financial services, Yiren Digital has been putting up numbers that demand a closer look.
2 million customers in more than 150 countries use Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK), a company that widely has the reputation of being “just a stock photo” company. In reality, it has a vast array of images, videos, music, and even an AI-driven creative platform.
With its extensive library of over 390 million images and 24 million videos and as a leader the global stock photo and video market that is forecast to reach $5 billion by 2027,
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Usually, we talk about interesting stocks that may be on the cusp of growing revenues, profits or share price rapidly on a Tuesday but today we’re breaking from our regular programming to flag a major concern that could affect consumers. And because consumer spending is widely regarded to constitute about 70% of GDP, anything that affects it has a material impact on the broader stock market.
A few weeks ago we wrote an article titled Is This Space Stock Set To Blast Off, which featured Planet Labs. Fast forward to last Thursday’s earnings report, and Friday’s trading action, which resulted in a 10.99% one-day gain and it seems fair to say Planet may be on the cusp of escaping gravity soon.
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In November 2012, the first bitcoin halving cycle was recorded, and the event reduced the reward for mining new Bitcoin blocks by half. Every four years or so 210,000 blocks are mined and the rate at which new bitcoin is mined is cut by 50%.
The supply limit and increased difficulty have been instrumental in the thesis that bitcoin’s price can only rise in time to offset the inflationary effects of fiat currency.
Fame is a drug and Jensen Huang might be falling victim to it. The renowned CEO of Nvidia has been captured autographing the… let’s go with the word “chest” of a woman. Some are claiming that’s the sign a market top is in…. when the boss of a semiconductor company has become so lauded that women are clamoring to have him sign his name on their bodies.
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In spite of recent volatility, energy stocks have historically provided strong returns during periods of crude oil price recovery. With crude oil prices nearing the lower end of their range and a bullish shift in fundamentals, is now the time to begin long positions in the energy sector?
Crude oil is approaching the $70 per barrel mark,
Five years ago, Nvidia traded at $36 per share. It now hovers around $1,145 per share. At first glance, it’s hard to reconcile not only the price rise but the market capitalization. Nvidia trades at a valuation of $2.8 trillion. For comparison, Apple has a market cap of $2.9 trillion.
Apple generated $383 billion in revenues last year and reported net income of $96 billion.
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If one key indicator is to be trusted, the U.S. economy may be headed either for choppy waters or over a cliff, and the fallout for stocks may be enormous.
While there is no doubt that the forces of money supply creation and consequently inflation drive nominal prices higher over the long-term, the short-term is less easy to forecast with the same degree of accuracy.
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