May 01, 2024 Viking Holdings IPO: stock price cruises in NYSE trading debut For Viking, the timing is good: Travelers are increasingly starting to book cruises again. BY Tracy Brown Hamilton Shares of Viking Holdings (NYSE:VIK) surged over 10% on Wednesday as the Norwegian-founded, Swiss-headquartered cruise operator debuted on the stock market in one of the … Continue reading Viking Holdings IPO: stock price cruises in NYSE trading debut
eBay is buying the trading card marketplace TCGplayer for $295 million Amrita Khalid @askhalid eBay is placing a big bet on the booming trading card industry. The company is set to buy TCGplayer — an online marketplace for trading card games — in a deal valued up to $295 million, it announced today. Launched … Continue reading Workers at trading card marketplace TCGplayer form eBay’s first union
CWA files unfair labor practice charge against eBay’s trading card subsidiary Kris Holt @krisholt The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has filed an unfair labor practice charge against eBay-owned TCGplayer on behalf of workers at the trading card marketplace. The organization says TCGplayer supervisors and managers, including founder and CEO Chedy Hampson, illegally surveilled … Continue reading CWA files unfair labor practice charge against eBay’s trading card subsidiary
By Jessica Bursztynsky November 07, 2022 Life in the Gig Economy is a new series that tells the stories of workers in an industry relied upon by millions. If you’d like to share your story, email staff writer Jessica Bursztynsky at Jessicabursz@proton.me Anthony Diaz is 30 years old and has worked … Continue reading Life in the Gig Economy: The guy who’s driving Lyft and Uber to save up for a career in day trading
By Sam Becker July 20, 2022 Evidently unfazed by the state of the stock exchanges and IPO market, FaZe Clan went public today via a $725 million SPAC merger with B Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp. The stock is now trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker “FAZE.” The public listing … Continue reading FaZe Clan stock price struggles on Nasdaq trading debut after SPAC listing
You Won’t Get Rich Overnight Trading. Here’s Why Andrea Unger / 15 Jun 2022 There’s a common fallacy out there about trading, that it’s an easy way to get rich fast. But data shows something very different. Prior to the pandemic, retail traders, or traders who buy and sell securities for their own accounts … Continue reading You Won’t Get Rich Overnight Trading. Here’s Why
By Steven Melendez June 07, 2022 Scott Keeney has been buying and selling on eBay since he was a kid. Keeney—better known by his music moniker DJ Skee—has also become a well known figure in the world of collectible trading cards, even producing a line of custom sports cards with industry powerhouse Topps. But … Continue reading eBay launches a new ‘Vault’ facility for storing valuable trading cards
By Connie Lin April 19, 2022 Okcoin, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange and one of the largest such platforms in the world, on Tuesday revealed it will debut a zero-fee, uncapped royalty NFT marketplace. And alongside brand advisor Randi Zuckerberg, the company, which recently committed $1 million to supporting women in crypto, hopes its new … Continue reading Okcoin enlists Randi Zuckerberg for an NFT trading platform to empower women in crypto
Alejandro Arrieche Last updated: 21 April 2022 The United States has become the global leader in terms of realized crypto gains in 2021 as revealed by research from the blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis. In a report released on 10 April, the Coatue-backed research firm estimated the gains obtained by investors by trading cryptocurrencies last … Continue reading US investors earn $46 billion by trading crypto in 2021
Michael Abetz Last updated: 10 April 2022 Bloomberg reported this week on two financial traders who left Barclays bank jobs to trade NFTs instead, preferring it to TradFi markets (traditional finance such as Fintech firms and investment banks). Mike Anderson and Ovie Faruq were FX traders, trading derivatives, high-yield cash and other assets for the … Continue reading TradFi Professionals Move into Trading NFTs
