The meme stock craze has found its latest target: video game hardware maker Corsair (CRSR). The company’s stock was up 31% when the market opened on Monday to $40.70, its highest price since late February, as mentions of the company on Wall Street Bets’ (WSB) Reddit pages have exploded. As of Monday morning, the stock was mentioned at least 1,180 times on WSB, according to Quiver Quantitative. Wallstreetbets Trackers, meanwhile, showed activity around Corsair up 17%. Corsair follows a… Source link
Read More »Over a dozen hurt in shooting incident early Saturday
Reuters Videos Shooting in Texas capital leaves 14 wounded Fourteen people were wounded during a mass shooting in Austin, Texas early on Saturday.Police said two men opened fire at each other in the Sixth Street area, a popular nightlife destination in the state capital.One of the two suspects is still at large.Austin Police Department Interim Chief Joseph Chacon said it was an isolated incident between the two parties.”Our first 911 call was received at 1:24 a.m., and were followed by… Source link
Read More »‘Extremely cruel move:’ Jobless workers brace for early end to unemployment benefits in 25 states
On Saturday, the $380 in weekly jobless benefits Robyn Gregorieff and her husband had depended on for basic needs is getting slashed by 79%, leaving the couple with just $80 a week to live on. She would have been entitled to the larger amount until September if her home state of Alaska didn’t cancel federal unemployment programs early due to mounting concerns over labor shortages. “It makes no sense because the federal government is paying that,” the 43-year-old Gregorieff told Yahoo… Source link
Read More »Anthony Davis leaves Game 6 early with groin injury
Los Angeles Lakers team doctors cleared Anthony Davis to return for their critical Game 6 matchup with the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night. That decision, however, seems to have been premature. Davis lasted less than six minutes at the Staples Center on Thursday before he had to leave the game. The Lakers listed him as questionable to return initially, and then said at halftime that he was done for the night. Davis, according to Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes, didn’t actually injure his groin any… Source link
Read More »The Intense Drama of My Early 2000s Ewan McGregor Yahoo Group
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann’s masterpiece Moulin Rouge!, I want to take you back to 2001. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Northern California. And when I say “middle of nowhere,” I mean that my parents had to drive 100 miles into a town in Oregon just so I could be born because my hometown hospital was not equipped to perform C-sections. Like many youths, I struggled to connect my fellow teens. I just had nothing in common with the people I went to high school… Source link
Read More »Psychedelic drugmaker MindMed stumbles in Nasdaq debut, CEO says ‘still very early innings’
MindMed’s (MNMD) Nasdaq debut Tuesday made it the second psychedelic drug developer to be listed on a major U.S. stock exchange. UK-based Compass Pathways (CMPS) went public on the Nasdaq in September, while last week Peter Thiel-backed ATAI Life Sciences filed for an IPO. Just a year ago, New York-based MindMed was a penny stock on the over-the-counter market. Shares fell 29% in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq, but that’s after they ran up 65% Friday and 33% Monday on the OTCQB… Source link
Read More »Walmart plans to make most store associates full-time by early 2022
Walmart (WMT), which recently gave many of its workers a raise, said on Wednesday that two-thirds of its hourly associates will be full-time with consistent schedules by the end of the current fiscal year. Of Walmart’s 1.2 million hourly U.S. store associates, approximately 740,000 will be full-time hourly associates by Jan. 31, 2022. Going back to 2016, about 53% of Walmart’s hourly store workers were full-time — meaning just over 100,000 will have been moved to full-time status in that… Source link
Read More »Early men’s college basketball rankings for 2021-2022 season
Gonzaga might have gone 31-1 and, but Mark Few and staff are already loaded with talent for next year. The Zags will likely lose their starting perimeter players but are gaining a five-star point guard Hunter Salis and are in good shape to land the No. 1 player in the country, . The new transfer rule has created new postseason chaos for college basketball with over 1,300 players in the transfer portal. Will bluebloods Kentucky, Duke and North Carolina bounce back next year? What about UCLA… Source link
Read More »Stimulus checks: $1,400 payments could come as early as this weekend – Yahoo Money
The Daily Beast Cold-Case Cops Find New Murder Victim in Ohio Suspect’s Shed Multnomah County Sheriff DepartmentDNA evidence found in a mysterious disappearance and presumed death case in 1999 has been identified as that of a metal worker who had a cut-up corpse in his Portland, Oregon, shed.Police arrested Christopher Lovrien, 53, last May after private genealogy firm Bode Technology matched his DNA to that found in the home of Mark Dribin, who disappeared in 1999. Dribin’s body has never… Source link
Read More »Zoom quarterly sales surge 369% as work-from-home extends into early 2021
TipRanks Goldman Sachs Predicts Over 50% Rally for These 2 Stocks Stocks started this year with heft gains, edged back last week, and now are rising again. The big tech giants led the moves, with volatility in Apple and Amazon leading the NASDAQ on its gyrations. The strategy team at investment bank Goldman Sachs have taken notice of the market shakeups, and are working out what it means for investors. According to macro strategist Gurpreet Gill, watching bond yields and stock values closely,… Source link
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