Bidding for Twitter’s first tweet, ‘just setting up my twttr’, is heating up as a Malaysian Bitcoin investor has offered $2.5 million for the 2006 post by CEO Jack Dorsey. Hakan Estavi — CEO of blockchain system firm Bridge — has outbid other prospective buyers including Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun. On Saturday, Mr Sun had … Read more
Investment platform Interactive Investor snaps-up 50,000 personal investing accounts from Equiniti in £49m deal II has bought Equiniti’s share dealing, ISA and SIPP accounts for £48.5m Sale and migration of around 50,000 customers set to complete this summer If customers find that after six months they would have paid less with Equiniti, Interactive Investor will refund … Read more
City investor, 53, slams Met police for failing to prosecute van driver who crashed into his £10,000 bike in a cycle lane despite CCTV footage of the collision which left him with serious injuries Matt Cooper was hit by a van turning right in west London in September The City investor was told there would … Read more
Stock market investors get younger: Average age of new Hargreaves customers falls from 45 to 37 in last eight years By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:08 GMT, 1 February 2021 | Updated: 22:08 GMT, 1 February 2021 Britain’s stock market investors are getting younger as the pandemic pushes households into taking control … Read more
Ten-year-old investor makes more than $3,000 on 10 GameStop shares his mother bought him for $60 as a Kwanzaa gift in 2019 Jaydyn Carr’s mother, Nina, purchased 10 shares of GameStop stock in 2019 for about $60 She gave them to her son as a Kwanzaa present to teach him about investing That lesson in … Read more
Cineworld facing investor backlash over plans to pay bonuses worth up to £65m to its chief executive despite receiving taxpayer cash to survive the pandemic By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:59 GMT, 22 January 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 22 January 2021 Cineworld is facing an investor backlash over plans to pay … Read more
WH Smith boss Carl Cowling has latest pay rise blocked after a third of shareholders refused to approve it By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 20 January 2021 WH Smith has suffered an investor revolt as a third of shareholders refused to approve its … Read more
Canadian investor ploughs £580m into Realstar Groups’s UK urban apartments By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:55 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 22:55 GMT, 19 January 2021 A Canadian investor has poured £580million into urban apartments in the UK in a deal bosses say shows that cities will be ‘far from dead’ … Read more
My father used to ‘play the stock market’. He folded the profits from his small business in the 1970s into company shares, some of which came as recommendations from his stockbroker, over the bakelite telephone with a twisted brown cord. He added to this substantially with the big privatisations of the 1980s, and left a … Read more
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the markets and an announcement of another national lockdown has thrown yet more uncertainty into the mix. The spread of coronavirus early last year wiped trillions of dollars off global stocks and March saw the FTSE plunge more than 10 per cent in its worst day since 1987. And … Read more