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Bezos adds billions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... owe their wealth to the technology sector, including Elon Musk, whose fortune has soared US$47 billion so far in 2020. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has added almost US$15 billion to his net worth this year, even as the company faces backlash ...

Xinja dabbles in US stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... investors access to over 3000 stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Xinja claims Dabble will make names like Tesla, Facebook, Google and Amazon accessible and affordable to all investors with zero brokerage fees, $8 monthly subscription fee for unlimited ...

New player in geared, index-shorting ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... S&P 500 and ASX 200 where BetaShares' products dominate, but they focus on US tech darlings like Tesla, Apple and Facebook which are increasingly among the most-traded global stocks by Australian investors. "We were short on a leveraged product [and] ...

Top traded stocks revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... cap stocks popular among Aussie investors on the platform include Boeing, with trading activity up 372% during June, Facebook (up 330%), Hertz (up 916%), Amazon (up 602%), Microsoft (up 455%), American Airlines Group (up 545%) and Disney (up 158%).

Investment scams pry $126m from Aussie hands

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... year, with men more likely to fall for a scam than their female counterparts. In particular, investment scammers targeted Facebook and Instagram users with promises of "get rich quick" schemes and cryptocurrency scams, the ACCC said. Common techniques ...

Is a market turning point around the corner?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... Mitchell. Mitchell pointed out around 85% of the move in the index so far this year can be explained by just five stocks: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft. When paired with market breadth which he notes "has never been so narrow", Mitchell ...

COVID-19 poses unique human rights threats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... of medicines being hailed as the solution to this pandemic," she said. "In response to this, large platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter are pointing consumers proactively to reliable sources like health authorities." Platforms playing the role ...

Grow Super co-founder in alleged betting scandal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... with StatEdge since May 2019," the spokesperson said. Social media accounts for StatEdge have been taken down, as have Facebook and Instagram accounts for Grow Super. Wilson has removed any mention of Grow from his LinkedIn profile, though his role as ...

S&P kicks companies off ESG index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... companies kicked out. Twitter and Walmart were dropped from the ESG index for failing to meet certain ESG standards while Facebook, which was removed last year due to several controversies, made a re-entry. Twitter was ineligible for the index this year ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... stocks, as well as AI provider Appen. "The reason I bought some Appen shares is because they serve clients like Google and Facebook that have the financial strength to spend throughout this time, no matter what," he said. "Having said that, like all ...