The Stake Desk

Rose Quartz, Living Coral and Marsala. 3 of the most recent Pantone Colours of the Year. Based in Michigan, Pantone has turned colour into money. As the global authority on pigments and hues through Pantone Matching System, a multi-million dollar business has been built

You may have noticed the trade counter in your Stake App profile page. It quietly tallies all the trades you make during the week. Certain investors face regulatory restrictions on the number of trades they can make over a week. These are known as Pattern Day Trading rules. Let’s dig into the details.

You’ve been asking for this one. The most popular stock on Stake gets the UTS treatment. Tesla is ticking boxes on its route to a trillion-dollar market cap. Q1 2021 saw record production and delivery numbers for Tesla but it faces increasing competition from the incumbents. Let’s look at what’s to come for Musk & Co. in an ultra innovative industry.

The US market really is a gateway to the rest of the world. Not only is the US a centre of trade and commerce, but a centre of capital. The most promising companies from across the continents head to Wall St to finance their latest expansions and projects.

It’s been just about 500 days since we dragged our monitor home, fiddled with the USB-Cs and HDMIs and began the work-from-home experience. While we’ve drifted in and out of lockdown, the video call has become a daily exercise for the modern worker. From the morning stand up-to million-dollar negotiations, is it the best way to do business?

Olá, Bonjour, Shikamoo. Duolingo Inc. is set to go public on the Nasdaq. The Pittsburgh-based company has over 500 million total users with 7 billion Duolingo exercises completed every month.

71% of the earth is covered in water and 60% of our human bodies are made of water yet H2O remains one of the scarcest and most precious resources on earth. While it’s obvious that we need water to drink, wash, and eat, only 12% of freshwater in the US is used by the general public. Mining, crop irrigation, hydroelectric power generation all contribute to the degradation of water supplies. Currently, less than 0.3% of wastewater is recycled in the US; an increasingly necessary practice as scientists predict more frequent and severe droughts. Sustainable water usage is a must to lessen the effects of already rampant climate change

With the Tokyo games just a sleep away, let’s dig a little deeper behind the games that unite 205 countries globally. While the underdog story always garners headlines, we’ve become used to China and the USA dominating medal tallies since the turn of the century.
Is this simply a product of a massive population and a rich government? What factors determine the success of athletes outside their willingness to work hard?

Amrit from Sydney spent his years working in both finance and as a product manager. After finding success using data from around the internet to predict stock price risers, he built his own tool and site to make the process more efficient.

The stocks that perform best in an inflationary economy differ from those which have performed so well over the last few years. Where will the excess returns come from should inflation kick-off? The guide below looks at history’s out-performers in high inflation economies of the past.

Thousands of years of shifting sands and rocks and tides go into the perfect surf break. It’s not something humans can control. 100-metre long barrelling right-handers are a product of luck and nature.