ST. LOUIS (AP) — Massive chunks of hail pelted parts of Kansas and Missouri on Wednesday night, bringing traffic to a standstill along Interstate 70, as storms unleashed possible tornadoes and meteorologists urged residents to stay indoors. There were three unconfirmed reports of tornadoes in Wabaunsee and Shawnee counties with reports of damaged structures, but no reports of injuries or homes damaged, according to meteorologist Matt Wolters with the National Weather Service’s Topeka… Source link
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Retail investors have upended conventional market dynamics in 2021, showing institutional investors and hedge funds that they are a force to contend with. “The one dynamic that will change is, I think, big institutionally-driven hedge fund players will not get out over their skis the way that Archegos did,” Keith Bliss, a former NYSE trader and president of Capital2Market, told Yahoo Finance (video above). “But what the instructive part of that whole episode was that these bigger… Source link
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Facebook (FB) recently announced that it would be banning advertisements that discourage vaccines and banning content related to rabid QAnon conspiracy theories. But according to Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, it’s too little too late — especially considering that the platform won’t touch existing anti-vaccine posts. “Facebook, they are the 800-pound gorilla in the misinformation market,” Ahmed said on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade (video above)…. Source link
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