Monthly Archives: March 2021

Stocks rise as yields pare gains, JNJ vaccine receives authorization

TipRanks Billionaire Steven Cohen Picks Up These 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Last week, the NASDAQ slipped below 13,200, making the net loss from its all-time peak, reached earlier this month, 6.4%. If this trend keeps up, the index will slip into correction territory, a loss of 10% from its peak. So what exactly is going on? At bottom, it’s mixed signals. The COVID-19 pandemic is starting to fade and the economy is starting to reopen – strong positives that should boost markets. But an… Source link

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R.I., Google Cloud unveil first-in-the-nation virtual career center powered by artificial intelligence

Rhode Islanders can access the portal at BackToWorkRI.com. The initiative, which was launched in July 2020 by Governor Gina M. Raimondo, was meant to be a public-private partnership designed to train, support, and hire Rhode Islanders who have been displaced by the pandemic. Since last March, thousands of Rhode Islanders have lost their jobs, leaving them no other choice but to file for unemployment. Sarah Blusiewicz, assistant director of workforce development for the Rhode Island Department… Source link

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MicroStrategy Keeps Stacking Sats With Additional $15M Bitcoin Buy

Bloomberg Goldman’s Eric Lane Leaves for Tiger Global in Surprise Exit (Bloomberg) — Eric Lane, the co-head of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s asset-management business, is quitting the firm to join Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management, just a day after news that a pair of senior consumer bankers are leaving the lender for a fintech startup.Lane is departing less than six months after taking over Goldman’s newly expanded asset-management business along with Julian Salisbury, according… Source link

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Digital media war heats up: More countries could target Facebook, Google over news

Facebook has turned the news back on. In Australia, the websites that were previously blocked by Facebook are now accessible and sharable once again. But the battle involving social networks and news is just beginning. Last week Australia’s government passed a law this week that offered a glimpse at the future for Facebook and media consumers around the world. The News Media Bargaining Code, passed Wednesday, effectively forces big tech platforms to pay publishers for news… Source link

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SOS Limited Responds to Misleading “Short and Distort” Allegations

QINGDAO, China, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SOS Limited (NYSE: SOS) (the “Company” or “SOS”) was recently attacked by short sellers with distorted, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims regarding the Company. The Company also believes certain social media accounts of some Company board members may have been impersonated or disabled for short periods of time. The Company believes these attacks were purposefully designed to manipulate the price of the Company’s shares, with the aim of… Source link

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SPACs turn to ‘stonks’ as amateur traders take on more risk

By Joshua Franklin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) – For Jonny Coreson, $4 billion is worth $5 billion. The 32-year-old test prep business owner from Denver invested $100,000 in shares of veteran hedge fund manager Bill Ackman’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd, after they soared 25% in December with no imminent deal in sight. This valued the blank-check acquisition firm at $5 billion, when on paper it was worth only the $4 billion it had raised in an… Source link

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Facebook and Google are prolonging the pandemic

Created by well-funded anti-vaccine groups and spread by misguided but dedicated activists on social media, vaccine misinformation could lengthen the COVID-19 pandemic and literally kill people. The First Amendment prevents governments from silencing speech, but it doesn’t compel private companies to enable, promote and support harmful speech: Nobody is owed a social media service. Social media companies must limit anti-vaccine groups’ power to harm people through their services. For… Source link

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Bitcoin at ‘Tipping Point’ as Institutions Come on Board

Bitcoin is at the “tipping point of its existence” thanks to large institutional investment and growing regulatory groundwork, according to a new report by Citi obtained by CoinDesk. While the perception of the cryptocurrency varies greatly, it is undoubtedly the inspiration for a blockchain-based economy and has created a new decentralized cryptocurrency market, according to the paper by Citi Global Perspectives and Solutions (GPS), the bank’s “thought leadership” arm. Citi… Source link

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