Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into stocks and markets that made Wall Street's news cycle over the past week. We hope everyone had a good holiday and please have a safe and Happy New Year. This week we look at Blue Apron (APRN), a company that had a bright future for all of a minute, but that didn't that didn't deter them from going public. Future Seemed so Bright Founded in 2012 the company went public in June 2017. The road to becoming a publicly tra

2018 hasn't been good to SnapChat. It's dealt with bad earning calls, analyst downgrades, unfavorable changes to the app, Kylie Jenner openly expressing her negative feelings about the changes to the app, and a WTF moment involving Rihanna and domestic violence. All of that has left SNAP's stock trading below $15 per share. It appears Wall Street and Main Street have cut it's loses with SnapChat and moved on to companies with better prospects. We wondered though, are investor

Source: Apple.com Apple stock increased in price during and after the company's developers conference on June 4, 2018. Investors continued to buy into Apple boosting the stock price closer to its eventual trillion dollar valuation. However, there were some stock market spectators and even a few Apple shareholders who wondered why the stock was increasing when no new hardware was revealed during the conference. We believe Apple used WWDC '18 to showcase the foundation for the

The ideal of a Universal Basic Income continues to gather momentum. A California mayor is looking to fight poverty by providing a Universal Basic Income and studying the benefits. There are still some details to work out. The city has not decided how many people will be eligible to receive income. The plan does have critics who believe a Universal Basic Income would encourage people not to work. Read more about the plan here. What do you think? Is UBI a good idea? #UBI #Unive