Trader Digest: Robinhood Turns Trading into a Pandemic Pastime
This week in Trader Digest we've seen how Robinhood turned people in lockdown to the trading lifestyle, how somebody used a GoFundMe page to scam their friends out of $100,000, ...Trading History: Disney buys Lucasfilm
This week in trading history Disney made one of the smartest acquisitions in American history, stock market circuit breakers tripped for the first time, Philip Morris purchased Kraft foods, and ...Film Club: The Big Short (2015)
Michael Lewis' brilliant book is converted into an unlikely mainstream hit from the director behind Anchorman and Step Brothers. Starring Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt and Christian Bale, steel ...Trading History: The Start of the Great Depression
Avert your eyes now if in search of a good news story as this week in trading history we saw the significant drop in the Dow Jones Industrial average that ...Trader Digest: Pilots Swap the Cockpit For Trading Screens
This week in Trader Digest we’ve seen JP Morgan’s success over frenzied trading during the pandemic, pilots are exchanging their seats in the cockpit for the trading floor, and David ...This Week in Trading History: New York Bankruptcy Scare
This week in trading history saw the moment that New York City almost went bankrupt only to be saved by teachers. Walt Disney sold their first cartoon, the Western Blizzard ...Trader Digest: The Greatest Tax Heist in History
This Week in Trader Digest we’ve been reading about the elusive Mackenzie Scott, one of the world’s richest women. An unemployed trader tells his story of how he continued to ...Trader Digest: Coronavirus Infiltrates the White House
This Week in Trader Digest the biggest news surrounds the impact of Donald Trump's positive test for Covid-19. Meanwhile, JP Morgan faces the biggest settlement in history, how best to ...Trading History: McDonald's Magnate Ray Kroc is Born
This week in trading history sees the birth of Ray Kroc, the business visionary who made McDonald's what it is today. There's also the Great Chicago Fire, and the Dow ...Trader Digest: China’s Digital Currency
This week in Trader Digest sees China bullish about its new digital currency, UK pubs struggle with early closure restrictions and how an Amazon bribery scheme became a $100m swindle...