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Last Updated: 24 August 2020

Roger Baird is News Editor at Finixio. He has worked as a financial journalist for 20 years reporting on companies, capital markets and the UK economy.

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Millennials flock to TikTok tutorials for Robinhood trading tips

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 24, 2020

TikTok videos about trading strategies on free trading app Robinhood have notched up more than 3 million views, as millennials hunt for stock tips from […]

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Fed Minutes: Gold dips, dollar surges as FOMC backs away from bond caps

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 20, 2020

Gold fell and the dollar pulled itself out of a more than two-year slump, after US central bankers worried that the pandemic will “weigh heavily […]

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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund lost $21bn this year. What went wrong?

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 18, 2020

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund posted a loss of $21.27bn (188 billion Norwegian crowns) in the first six months of the year, as it saw “big […]

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Goldman Sachs: S&P 500 to jump 20% on pandemic recovery

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 17, 2020

Goldman Sachs has become the latest firm to say they expect US stocks to boom in the second half of the year. The US investment […]

CytoDyn chief executive Nader Pourhassan

CytoDyn stock jumps on positive Phase 2 coronavirus trials

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 13, 2020

Shares in CytoDyn lifted after the biotech startup said its new drug showed good signs as a treatment for mild-to-moderate coronavirus patients. The US firm […]

Wirecard: Germany’s financial crime unit failed to pass on reports of suspicious trading

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 12, 2020

Germany’s financial crime unit handed police “only two” of a 1,000 reports it had about suspicious trading activity at Wirecard before the payments firm collapsed […]

Robinhood trading data shows it blowing away rivals

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: October 12, 2020

One of the best stock trading apps, Robinhood has released daily trading data for the first time, which shows it outgunning its online broker rivals. […]

Microsoft under 45-day deadline to seal TikTok takeover after Trump order

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 7, 2020

Donald Trump (pictured) has lit a fire under Microsoft to complete its takeover of TikTok after signing an executive order late on Thursday that bans […]

Jeff Bezos sells $3bn of Amazon stock

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 6, 2020

Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos sold $3.1bn of stock in the tech giant this week. The world’s richest man sold around one million of stock […]

Xpeng Motors raises $800m ahead of US IPO

Author: Roger Baird

Last Updated: August 5, 2020

Chinese electric car maker Xpeng Motors has raised $400m ahead of an initial public offering (IPO) in New York later this year. The Tesla rival […]