As of August 2025, eleven companies have crossed the $1 trillion market cap mark. Aside from oil giant Saudi Aramco, Taiwan’s TSMC, and electric vehicle pioneer Tesla, all are U.S.-based tech firms, reflecting how digital innovation continues to dominate the world’s most valuable companies. In a historic leap on October 29, 2025, American chipmaker Nvidia […]
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Yesterday we witnessed a historic debut of SEC-approved Ethereum ETFs and the total trading volume topped $1 billion. Although this is nowhere near the approximately $4.7B trading volume on Day 1 for Bitcoin ETFs, our team at BestBrokers decided to do further comparison between both crypto ETF debuts. We compared the total traded amount of […]
Days before President Joe Biden’s abrupt decision to abandon his bid for this year’s presidential elections, his administration announced it had approved another $1.2 billion in student loan debt forgiveness for 35,000 borrowers. The new round of relief brings the canceled student loan debt total to almost $169 billion, helping nearly 42.8 million Americans struggling […]
While investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence has driven the performance of many stocks perceived to be linked to the “AI revolution”, some analysts have warned that AI is overhyped and a bubble about to burst – sooner than later. During the first six months of 2024, the S&P 500 index grew 14.5% from December 2023, […]
Crypto exchanges, like all websites, produce carbon emissions; the more sophisticated and visited they are, the more data they process, requiring serious server power to run them. This all comes at a high cost to the environment, especially when we consider that for many, cryptocurrencies are just a fad – overhyped digital currencies which, compared […]
In a year defined by AI breakthroughs, colossal layoffs, and serious cost-cutting across industries, sales, market cap, and headcount are no longer the epitome of power and success. Since AI and automation have increasingly replaced traditional roles, companies are now able to achieve notable profits with fewer employees, transforming the rules of operational efficiency. Companies […]
Building on our recent work on the enormous electric power consumption for mining Bitcoin, this time our team at BestBrokers focused on the energy consumption footprint of Bitcoin transactions. Calculating the exact amount of electric power consumed with every Bitcoin transaction is not a straightforward task. Technically speaking, the entire Blockchain is running solely for […]
On the back of the artificial intelligence buzz of the past few months, some tech companies made a furore on the stock market this year. Shares of the chip maker Nvidia surged on June 20, helping the company overtake Microsoft and Apple as the world’s most valuable listed company. This success was short-lived as the […]
Once the ultimate badge of startup glory, the ‘unicorn’ club – privately held companies worth over $1 billion – isn’t growing as fast as it used to. The heady days of 2021 and 2022, when venture capital money flowed freely and valuations soared, have given way to a more restrained reality. By 2025, investors have […]
Today’s homebuyers might find it hard to believe that back in the late 1960s a house in the United Kingdom could cost less than £4,000. Yet, for the Silent Generation (born between 1928 and 1945) and the Baby Boomers (1946-1964), this was simply a fact of life. To understand how housing affordability has changed since […]