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Wondering What are FANG Stocks? We Explain (Hint: They Should Now Be Called FANA Stocks)

In recent months you may have heard the term “FANG stocks” to refer to a particular group of stocks. More specifically, a particular group of high tech, high performing stocks. Those stocks are Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google (hence F-A-N-G). Of course, the parent company for Google is now Alphabet, so these really should be called FANA stocks.

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T-Mobile Giving Away T-Mobile Stock to Customers

T-Mobile, or, as it calls itself, the Un-Carrier, is taking a novel new step in customer incentives: giving away shares of T-Mobile stock to their customers. Called “Stock Up”, the stock offering is just one of many different free incentives being offered by T-Mobile to their customers.

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Twitter Stocks Plummet – Is Twitter’s Honeymoon Over?

So what constitutes a lousy honeymoon? For some people it is a rainy week at a resort. For others it means that everyone on their cruise ship got sick or food poisoning. And for one unlucky fellow recently, it meant getting shoved off a cliff by his bride. Well, Twitter’s stock value honeymoon ranks somewhere in that range between food poisoning and murder. (Although we’d still place it far above than Facebook’s botched IPO.)

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Facebook Stock Prices Dip More than 10 Percent after IPO

After all the hype, Facebook’s newly traded stock plunged nearly 11% between its opening day (Friday, May 18) and the following Monday (May 21). Compare that to Google, whose stock never even fell back to their IPO price of $100.00 per share, let alone went below the initial offering price. Facebook’s IPO price opened at $38.00 per share, and by the close of the market on Monday, it had dipped down to $34.03, a decline of 10.99%.