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Explore "spac" with insightful episodes like "Donald Trump’s Meme Stock Moment", "The Newest Tech Start-Up Billionaire? Donald Trump", "Trump’s Truth Social hits the Nasdaq", "Nextdoor SPAC breakdown, Pelosi trading options + Morning Brew’s Alex Lieberman | E1242" and "Was the Coinbase listing bitcoin and crypto's coming of age?" from podcasts like ""The Journal.", "The Daily", "FT News Briefing", "This Week in Startups" and "This is Money Podcast"" and more!

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Donald Trump’s Meme Stock Moment

Not long ago, Donald Trump’s social-media company, Truth Social, seemed like it was on life support. But when the company went public this week, its stock soared. WSJ’s Amrith Ramkumar explains how Truth Social’s valuation shot up despite its weak revenue and user numbers, and what it could mean for Trump’s financial and political future. Further Reading: - Truth Social Stock Price Surges on First Day of Trading, Increasing Trump’s Fortune - Trump Can Post Smaller $175 Million Bond in Civil Fraud Case - Dear Donald Trump, Here’s How to Manage Your Stock-Market Fortune Further Listening: - Trump Needs $450 Million He Doesn’t Have - Biden vs. Trump: The Rematch Nobody Wants Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

enMarch 28, 2024

The Newest Tech Start-Up Billionaire? Donald Trump

Over the past few years, Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, has been dismissed as a money-losing boondoggle.

This week, that all changed. Matthew Goldstein, a New York Times business reporter, explains how its parent venture, Truth Media, became a publicly traded company worth billions of dollars.

Guest: Matthew Goldstein, a New York Times business reporter.

Background reading:

What to know about Trump Media’s high-flying stock debut.
Ethics experts say the publicly traded company could present a new way for foreign actors or others to influence Mr. Trump, if he is elected president.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

enMarch 28, 2024

Trump’s Truth Social hits the Nasdaq

Shares in Donald Trump’s social media business soared following its New York market debut, and Visa and Mastercard have agreed to cut their US transaction fees. Plus, UBS needs to boost its wealth business to make its Credit Suisse acquisition a success.

Mentioned in this podcast:

Donald Trump has $4.6bn stake in social media group after market debut

Visa and Mastercard agree $30bn settlement over US transaction fees

Can UBS become Europe’s Morgan Stanley?

In German groceries, even computers have to obey century-old ban on Sunday work

The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Zach St. Louis, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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FT News Briefing

enMarch 27, 2024

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Nextdoor SPAC breakdown, Pelosi trading options + Morning Brew’s Alex Lieberman | E1242

First, Jason breaks down the highlights from Nextdoor's SPAC announcement (1:48) and covers the profits made by politicians trading tech company options (16:26). Then, Alex Lieberman, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Morning Brew, joins to talk about growing a newsletter business (45:34), expanding as a media company (49:51), angel investing (57:19) & more!

This Week in Startups

en-usJuly 08, 2021

Was the Coinbase listing bitcoin and crypto's coming of age?

Was the blockbuster Coinbase stock market listing a coming of age for bitcoin and cryptocurrency or a top of the bubble moment?

The world’s leading crypto exchange platform listed on the US stock market this week and at one point hit a hefty $100billion valuation, before slipping back to $60billion.

That’s still a very big number, especially for a business that made $322million last year.

But Coinbase is profitable, its earnings are growing rapidly, it can cash in whether bitcoin and crypto prices rise or fall, and the cryptocurrency genie is well and truly out of the bottle.

So, could it prove to be a Facebook or Google of the crypto world?

On this week’s podcast, Georgie Frost, Tanya Jefferies and Simon Lambert look at the Coinbase float and what it means for the crypto and investing world.

They also discuss the Spac frenzy, how it’s leading to lucky dip investing for some but also more companies coming to market, and whether once you know what’s in a Spac it could ever be worth investing.

Also, on this week’s podcast, the team look at low risk investments that could be an alternative to a paltry 1 per cent five-year fixed rate cash Isa and Tanya updates on the women underpaid state pensions.

And finally, Barclaycard has slashed customers’ credit limits and left many of them baffled and annoyed, so what on earth is going on?

This is Money Podcast

enApril 16, 2021

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Episodes (5)

Donald Trump’s Meme Stock Moment

The Newest Tech Start-Up Billionaire? Donald Trump

Trump’s Truth Social hits the Nasdaq

Nextdoor SPAC breakdown, Pelosi trading options + Morning Brew’s Alex Lieberman | E1242

Was the Coinbase listing bitcoin and crypto's coming of age?