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Trump's social media firm starts trading on Nasdaq with a mcap of $6.8 bn

As Donald Trump's social media company begins trading publicly Tuesday, would-be investors might ask themselves if the stock is too pricey and potentially too volatile. Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. was acquired Monday by a blank-check company called Digital World Acquisition Corp. Trump Media, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, now takes Digital World's place on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Trump Media debuts with a stock price near USD 50 and a market value of about USD 6.8 billion. Many of Digital World's investors were small-time investors either trying to support Trump or aiming to cash in on the mania, instead of big institutional and professional investors. Those shareholders helped the stock more than double this year in anticipation of the merger going through. They're betting on a company that has yet to turn a profit. Trump Media lost USD 49 million in the first nine months of last year, when it brought in just USD 3.4 million in revenue and had to .

Donald Trump's social media company to be traded on Nasdaq from March 26

Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship product is social networking site Truth Social, will begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market on Tuesday. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded shell company, approved a deal to merge with the Trump's media business in a Friday vote. The common stock of Trump Media & Technology Group will trade under the ticker symbol DJT." Former president Donald Trump is set to own most of the combined company or nearly 79 million shares. Multiply that by Digital World's closing stock price Friday of $36.94, and the total value of his stake could be nearly $3 billion.

Trump's social media company to go public, likely listing on Nasdaq

Donald Trump is returning to the stock market, and the former president stands to reap a sizeable payout in the process. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp, a publicly traded shell company, approved a deal to merge with the Trump's media business in a Friday vote. That means Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship product is social networking site Truth Social, will soon begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market. Trump is set to own most of the combined company or nearly 79 million shares. Multiply that by Digital World's closing stock price Friday of USD 36.94, and the total value of his stake could be nearly USD 3 billion. The greenlight arrives at a time the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is facing his most costly legal battle to date: a USD 454 million judgment in a fraud lawsuit. But Trump won't be able to cash out the deal's windfall immediately, unless the company's board makes changes to a lock-up provision that prevents company insiders ...

Apple loses $113 billion in value as European, US regulators close in

Once the world's most valuable firm at more than $3 trillion, Apple has underperformed both the Nasdaq 100 and the S&P 500 in 2024

Nasdaq resolves glitch that impacted trading; downtime lasted around 2 hrs

The Nasdaq is home to thousands of stocks, including those of iPhone maker Apple, electric vehicle-maker Tesla and semiconductor powerhouse Nvidia

Nifty 500 beats S&P 500, other leading global indices in last 10 yrs: study

Nifty 500, India's broadest index, outperformed most of the world's leading indices except the Nasdaq 100 over the last 10 years, according to the study by Motilal Oswal Asset Management Co.

Key acquisitions to expand footprint in India's energy sector: Honeywell

Compressors Control Corporation acquired by Honeywell counts ONGC, GAIL, Petronet LNG among customers

Cognizant Q4 profit up 7% at $558 mn, 2024 revenue guidance at -2% to 2%

The firm, based in Teaneck, New Jersey, reported a 7 per cent increase in net profit at $558 million for the December quarter

Nasdaq planning to cut hundreds of jobs amid integration of Adenza

Nasdaq is considering cutting some positions and may reallocate others in a bid to minimize redundancies, according to people familiar with the matter

Nasdaq talks to India about overseas listings for local companies

Allowing Indian companies to list abroad on exchanges like Nasdaq will give them wider access to capital, Nasdaq's Executive Vice Chairman Edward Knight said in an interview

Baidu terminates $3.6 bn purchase of JOYY's China live-streaming unit

The failure of the deal casts a shadow on search engine giant Baidu's ambition to diversify its revenue. The company proposed to acquire JOYY's entertainment live streaming business in China in 2020

Sensex soars 359pts, Nifty tops 21,250 amid broad buying; Inox India up 41%

Closing Bell on Thursday December 21: In the broader markets, the BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices outpaced frontline indices as they climbed 1.6 per cent and 1.69 per cent, respectively

Nasdaq hit by system error affecting thousands of trades, nixing some

The incident, starting around 2:30 p.m. New York time, involving "certain FIX/RASH order entry ports," Nasdaq said in an emailed statement that didn't elaborate on the cause

Nasdaq planning to repurpose technology from curtailed crypto foray

Nasdaq and other mainstream financial firms pulled back on their ambitions in digital assets as regulators seek to isolate the US financial system from cryptocurrencies

NASDAQ can play key role in attracting global investors to India: Official

NASDAQ can play a key role in bringing much-needed investment into India from global investors, according to a top official of the American stock exchange. India has right now "over 200 very large startup companies that could go public in future" and that's unheard of anywhere else in the world, NASDAQ executive vice chairman Edward Knight told PTI in an interview on Tuesday. NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a stock exchange that lists some of the world's largest technology companies, such as Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. It is one of the world's oldest and second-largest stock exchanges by market capitalisation, after the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Knight noted that India has "a very strong legal system...very strong universities" and "all the ingredients that have produced and could continue to produce great early-stage companies, innovation and technological innovation". "But," he said, "you need capital and the capital needs of In

Cognizant Q3 profit down 16.5%, 2023 revenue guidance at -0.7% to flat

The revenue for Q4 is expected to be in the range of $4.69-$4.82 bn, a fall of 4% to 1.2% in constant currency, due to furloughs and lower number of working days in the Dec quarter

Nasdaq, S&P 500 edge higher as Amazon, Intel lift beaten-down megacaps

Core inflation which excludes volatile food and energy components rose 0.3%, meeting estimates

Instacart goes from supermarket to stock market, raising $660 mn with IPO

Instacart is heading from the supermarket to the stock market. The San Francisco-based grocery delivery company raised USD 660 million in its initial public offering of stock, selling 22 million shares at USD 30 apiece. Its shares were set to begin trading on Tuesday on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the stock symbol CART. The pricing of the IPO gave Instacart a market value of around USD 10 billion, significantly lower than the USD 39 billion value placed on it after a fund-raising round in 2021. Instacart provides delivery and pickup from 85 per cent of US grocers, or more than 80,000 stores, using a network of 600,000 freelance shoppers. It also provides in-store technology, like smart carts and electronic shelf tags, and sells online ads to food companies and retailers. It says it has 7.7 million active customers who spend about USD 317 per month on the platform. In a letter to investors earlier this month, Instacart CEO Fidji Simo said grocery delivery has tremendous potent

SoftBank's Arm eyes $62 billion valuation in likely stellar Nasdaq debut

Its stock opened at $56.1 per American Depositary Share compared with the initial public offering (IPO) price of $51, in a sign of confidence for other companies planning to list

SoftBank Group in talks to acquire Vision Fund's 25% stake in Arm

The discussions come as Softbank is preparing to list the chip designer on Nasdaq next month at a valuation of $60 billion to $70 billion