Category: Business
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For many years, investors in stocks have been able to see how volatile the market is expected to be by relying on a gauge called the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX. This measure, often called the “fear gauge,” reads how much volatility investors are expecting based on option prices. Nothing…
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On November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci sold for a $450,312,500, the highest price ever paid for a painting. It is currently believed to be aboard a yacht in the Red Sea owned by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We are used to sky…
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With the House about to approve another $1.9 trillion in stimulus, the final hurdle before the legislation is signed by President Biden, I found myself wondering what this means for shares in GameStop and other meme stocks. Those stocks took off big time in January, as personal income increased 10%…
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GameStop shares are surging again today, even as the company is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The stock is reacting to Chewy founder Ryan Cohen beginning a push to transform GameStop into an e-commerce business. But it still has 5,000 stores that were losing a fortune even…
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Elon Musk’s Tesla, Inc. has connected a massive battery to the Texas power grid: A Tesla subsidiary registered as Gambit Energy Storage LLC is quietly building a more than 100 megawatt energy storage project in Angleton, Texas, a town roughly 40 miles south of Houston. A battery that size could…
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GameStop Corp. shares are surging today and are currently up over 30%: Chewy co-founder and GameStop board member Ryan Cohen is taking a bigger role, which is driving today’s gains: GameStop Corp. shares extended their rally after the company tapped Chewy.com founder Ryan Cohen to guide its transition to an…
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Shortly after giving blood a week ago, I availed myself of the blood center’s free cookies and magazines. I flipped to an article about banking in poor, mostly black areas of the rural south: …the national banks discourage poorer—and less profitable—clients through minimum-balance requirements and fees. And in many small…
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I came across a shocking fact this morning: 28% of Americans bought a meme stock like GameStop or AMC in January: Over a quarter of American adults say they bought GameStop (GME) or another viral stock in January, according to a new survey from Yahoo Finance and The Harris Poll.…
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In the waning days of the Trump administration, the government proposed regulations that would ban anonymity for holders of cryptocurrencies: Users whose wallets now are only identified with codes would have their true identities recorded with the financial institutions they zealously avoided. This proposed regulation has now been passed on…
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We are seeing strong options activity on Palantir Technologies, Inc., which is a darling of the Reddit crowd: On CNBC’s “Options Action,” Mike Khouw said about 610,000 contracts traded in Palantir Technologies Inc on Wednesday and calls outpaced puts by about three to one. The most active calls were the…
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