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Bitcoin surpasses silver to become the 8th largest asset in the world. https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1767141335910257021 Here is a link of 18,000 Assets ranked by Market Caphttps://www.8marketcap.com/

Facebook has hit $1 trillion in market capitalization. Facebook stock spiked nearly 5% in late-day trading aided by a favorable legal ruling that dismissed an antitrust complaint brought by the FTC. The social media company is the fifth U.S. company to hit the milestone, joining Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google-parent company Alphabet.

The Ethereum market cap briefly topped $500 billion for a new all-time high. This officially made the network more valuable than Visa. While the Ethereum market cap has dropped back slightly to $496 billion at the time of press, it’s still $2 billion ahead of Visa. Ethereum also managed to jump the market caps of both Walmart and the Wall Street banking giant JP Morgan Chase earlier this week. Ethereum is currently up 9% on the day and is trading at $4,310. Bullish trends for Ethereum and altcoins This past Monday morning Ethereum soared to a new all-time high, surpassing...

The Dow surged 669 points on Monday after trade tensions eased, erasing the drops from last week. Tech stocks like Amazon and Apple saw gains, but the biggest winner of all was Microsoft . The Seattle tech giant, which is a Dow 30 company, benefitted not only from the solid stock market day, but also because a Morgan Stanley analyst had kind things to say about it. Keith Weiss wrote in a note to clients that he's raising his 12-month price target to $130, an almost 50% increase from the $90 shares traded at last week. This would give the...

AAPL, -0.08% market capitalization of about $803 billion is 38% larger than the real GDP of Chicago, $581 billion in 2016. Apple isn’t the only Silicon Valley notable to top Chicago (and all other U.S. cities save two), either. Google parent Alphabet GOOGL, +0.62% has a market capitalization of $657.9 billion, making its pockets about 13% deeper than the GDP of the home of deep-dish pizza.

Feb 14, 2017 - 05:15 PM UTC — AAPL: 135.02 (+1.73, +1.3%) | NASDAQ: 5782.57 (+18.62, +0.32%) Apple shares hit new all-time intraday and closing highs Tuesday, February 14, 2017 · 4:18 pm · Today in Nasdaq trading, shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) rose $1.72, or 1.29%, to hit a new all-time closing high of $135.01. Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $133.29 set on February 13, 2017.   AAPL’s all-time intraday high stands at $135.08, also set today.  Apple’s 52-week low stands at $89.47.  Apple, the world’s most valuable company, currently has a market value of $708.34 billion. The top...

Amazon shares spiked in early trading Friday after the online retailer blew past quarterly earnings and revenue estimates, boosted by growth in the North American market and cloud computing segment. Shares rose 20 percent, giving the retailer a larger market capitalization than bricks-and-mortar behemoth Wal-Mart. The surge also generated a huge windfall for CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns 83,921,121 shares of the company. At Friday's early prices, his fortune rose some $8.05 billion—a gain that by itself would be enough to put him in the world's 200 richest people.

If you haven't been paying attention, Goldman Sachs shares have been in freefall. They lost over 3% Friday amid a slew of headlines about imminent subpoenas related to Blankfein, the firm's activities during the crisis, and just generally for being the much-reviled Goldman Sachs. The stock has lost over 10% in just the last week since Matt Taibbi wrote his latest takedown, costing the firm over $8 billion in market cap. From its 52-week high made earlier this year, the stock is off 24%. At $134, it's only barely above its $129 book value, meaning that either A) people don't...