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Hello and happy weekend from the Equity crew! We had a busy week, including a Twitter Space with Natasha and Alex taking to the mics to dig into some tasty public-market news. Naturally our show is more startup-focused than public-market centered. But! We can learn a lot from the world of public companies that have […]

Hello and happy weekend from the Equity crew! We had a busy week, including a Twitter Space with Natasha and Alex taking to the mics to dig into some tasty public-market news. Naturally our show is more startup-focused than public-market centered. But! We can learn a lot from the world of public companies that have […]

The popularity of user-generated, short-form video is increasing with many factors working in its favor. The limited video format highlights a person''s creativity as they showcase educational, informative or entertaining content while using filters, editing tools and incorporating sound and music. The end result can often go viral. Marketers are using the power of the format to target diverse, engaged and specifically younger audiences. When TikTok, the short-video app of China''s ByteDance, became a hit it was logical that companies, even politicians, began to notice. Former U.S. President Donald Trump''s call to ban the app in the U.S., primarily due to his animosity toward China, opened the floodgates of people joining TikTok. High-profile social media platforms such as Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: FB ), Alphabet Inc.''s (NASDAQ: GOOG ) (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) YouTube and Snap Inc.''s (NASDAQ: SNAP ) Snapchat have now ventured into short videos. Related Link: Facebook Vs. Snapchat Vs. Pinterest Vs.

Amazon Explodes 18% Higher On Solid Earnings, AWS Beat, Prime Price Increase With the bulk of the FAAMG stocks - which is now GAMMA following Facebook''s rebranding to Meta - having reported Q4 results (some great, like GOOLG and MSFT, some, like Facebook, terrible), investors were keenly looking to Amazon earnings, where the biggest question for Amazon is how sustainable are the growth trends that boosted its performance during the pandemic. The Internet giant was one of the biggest beneficiaries of shifts in consumer and business behavior last year while continuing to grab market share in cloud. As Bloomberg notes, 2022 is a critical year for new Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is facing a declining stock price, slowing e-commerce growth, rising costs, and labor concerns in New York and Alabama. He’s also facing inflation, new consumer technology rivals and third-party product delays in the early days of his first full year as the company’s top executive. Many analysts are expecting a price hike to Amazon Prime given inflation.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed at curtailing the market power of Apple Inc.''s and Google parent Alphabet Inc.''s app stores. By a 20-2 vote, the committee pushed along the Open App Markets Act, with only Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., in opposition. It is the second tech competition bill passed by the committee this year. Last month, the panel advanced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would accomplish some of the same goals but is broader and could apply to Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. as well. Both bills, which go to the full Senate, are intended to help developers led by advocates such as Epic Games Inc., Spotify Technology , and Match Group Inc. . Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Retail Investors Are Flooding In To Buy Meta''s Face-plant Dip Years of BTFD instinct don''t go away just like that, and with Facebook plunging the 26%, its biggest drop ever, and also the biggest loss of market cap by any company in US history - putting it in context FB has lost more value today than the market cap of 455 S&P500 members - and after its opening collapse, the retail crew has arrived and according to Fidelity, thousands of retail investors are buying the dip this morning. According to Fidelity , FB was by far the most traded among individual investors using Fidelitys platform, with volumes more than five times that of Tesla, the second-most traded stock according to Bloomberg. The imbalance was 80% in favor of dip buyers, with more than 49k buy orders placed on the platform as of 11:52am, compared to 12k sell orders as of 11:52 a.m. in New York. In context, the staggering amount of buy orders was roughly seven times the demand for Amazon, the second-most bought stock. The flood of retail buying is hardly as surprise, and it represents a continuation of the relentless, if somewhat more subdued, purchases by ordinary investors.

Right now, Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN ) share price is at $226.75, after a 0.95% drop. Over the past month, the stock increased by 0.70% , but over the past year, it actually fell by 4.05% . With questionable short-term performance like this, and great long-term performance, long-term shareholders might want to start looking into the company''s price-to-earnings ratio. Also check out this: Alphabet And 4 Other Stocks Sold By Insiders The stock is currently higher its 52 week low by 14.15% . Assuming that all other factors are held constant, this could present itself as an opportunity for investors trying to Full story available on Benzinga.com

Photo by Chuttersnap on Unsplash This post contains sponsored advertising content. This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be investing advice. Imagine a future where Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN ) and Alphabet Inc. s (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) multibillion-dollar cloud infrastructure is distributed among millions of people around the globe who lend spare hardware, earn money for the service, and safeguard the environment simultaneously. Thats the future the decentralized cloud-computing network Cudos envisions. This may be Web3s next major frontier, and the Cudo Compute project, a global, decentralized cloud-computing platform designed to deliver the next generation of the metaverse, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and Web 3.0 decentralized applications (DApps) might be bringing it closer to reality. As the world of NFTs and metaverses evolves, the demand for computing capability is poised to increase 1,000 times a demand the world is unlikely to keep up with according to Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC ).

Stock splits might make them a little easier to buy, but a higher number of shares outstanding also means more liquidity, which could narrow the bid-ask spread.

Google parent company Alphabet Inc advanced nearer to joining peers Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp in the elite $2 trillion market valuation club on Wednesday as the search giant`s shares surged more than 8% following a blowout quarterly report.

US equity futures plunged after Facebook (-22%) reported weaker-than-expected earnings after Wednesdays market close. Alphabet reported strong Q4 earnings. APAC looks set to open mixed.

The "Mad Money" host stressed that stock splits are purely cosmetic and do not impact a company''s underlying business.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi''s husband, an investment manager and options trader, could be up big on Wednesday with Alphabet''s equity pop.

A leading technology company is making headlines Wednesday after announcing quarterly earnings and announcing a stock split. Heres how its last stock split paid off for investors. What Happened: Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG )(NASDAQ: GOOGL ) announced fourth-quarter revenue of $75.3 billion, up 32% year-over-year. The total came in ahead of a consensus estimate of $72.1 billion. The company also beat estimates for quarterly earnings per share with a total of $30.69 EPS. Search revenue hit $43.3 billion in the fourth quarter along with YouTube advertising revenue, which hit $8.6 billion. The strong results from Alphabet led to shares to go higher in the after-hours trading session Tuesday. Another reason for investor excitement was likely the announcement by the company of a stock split. Alphabet announced it would do a 20-for-1 stock split, Full story available on Benzinga.com