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Dec 3, 2019; New Orleans, LA, USA; Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban prior to tip off against the New Orleans Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports Cities like Miami, Denver, and Dallas have become attractive destinations for entrepreneurs and companies during the coronavirus pandemic. Texas, in particular, has become home to high-profile figures like Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk and podcast host Joe Rogan — Oracle (ORCL) recently moved its… Source link

Fool’s gold? The SEC alleges that a stock manipulator sucked investors into a worthless company by claiming it was about to become a big player in cannabis. If you’ve been following the ludicrous saga of trading in GameStop shares, you’ve probably heard about how short sellers try to profit by manipulating stocks to fall in price. But that’s not the only way people try to play the market. The Securities and Exchange Commission just unveiled fraud charges against a trader allegedly trying to… Source link

Stock futures opened slightly higher Tuesday morning as investors awaited a key monetary policy decision and updated economic outlook from the Federal Reserve.  Earlier during the regular session, the S&P 500 and Dow each ended lower to retreat from record closing highs notched earlier this week. The S&P 500’s loss was its first in five days. The Nasdaq ended marginally higher as technology stocks outperformed. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, fell to a pandemic-era low of 19.3, or the… Source link

For this week’s “ETF Report” on Yahoo Finance, with host Alexis Christoforous, ETF Trends’ CIO and Director of Research, Dave Nadig, was on hand to go over what’s happening with the billion dollars flowing into ETFs targeting natural resources. As he explains, there’s a good reason why it’s become so popular for investors, and it’s related to inflation concerns. “I think a lot of folks are, at least, concerned about inflation,” Nadig says. “One of the ways people express… Source link

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is not being impeached — yet. Instead, with mounting sexual misconduct accusations and an alleged cover-up of nursing home deaths, Cuomo is facing an investigation from his fellow Democrats in the state Assembly’s Judiciary Committee that could, conceivably, result in his removal from office. However, multiple members of the Albany Legislature are concerned the investigation is merely “buying time” for the governor, whose term ends next year. Gov. Andrew… Source link

Bloomberg Bitcoin Falls After Weekend Rally Pushes Token to Fresh Record (Bloomberg) — Bitcoin dropped Monday as traders eased up on stimulus-fueled bets that had powered the digital token to a fresh record over the weekend.The largest cryptocurrency slumped by as much as 9.2% before trading at $56,131 as of 1:04 p.m. in New York, after topping out at $61,742 on Saturday. Bitcoin reached its latest all-time high on optimism that some of the pandemic relief payments in the U.S. will end up… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) is the backbone of much of the internet, counting millions of websites as its customers, ranging from Airbnb (ABNB) and Ancestry.com to McDonald’s (MCD) and Volkswagen.  The world’s largest cloud provider, it has ensured that video chatting apps like Zoom (ZM), streaming services like Netflix (NFLX), and virtual learning platforms have operated throughout a pandemic that has kept everybody at a physical distance. And according to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels,… Source link

Tens of millions of doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine are currently sitting in U.S. distribution centers. The company is awaiting results from its U.S. clinical trial before requesting emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Made by the British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca in collaboration with Oxford University, the vaccine has been causing controversy in some European countries over fears that it has potential links to blood clots. On Monday its rollout… Source link

MMA Weekly Dana White announces UFC 261 to house full house of fans, three title fights UFC president Dana White on Monday announced that UFC 261 is headed to Jacksonville, Fla., with a full house of fans. The fight card will be topped with three title fights. VyStar Veteran’s Memorial Arena will be open to a full house, according to White, featuring a blistering tripleheader of championship bouts. A rematch between UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal tops the UFC 261… Source link

GlobeNewswire Proactive news headlines including Great Southern Mining, Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals, Chimeric Therapeutics and Poseidon Nickel Proactive, provider of real-time news and video interviews on growth companies listed in Australia, has covered the following companies:Sydney, March 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Southern Mining Ltd (ASX:GSN) has discovered two large gold-copper systems at Leichhardt Creek prospect within the wider Edinburgh Park Project in north Queensland… Source link