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Bloomberg Trader Arrested as WallStreetBets Phenomenon Finds Echo in Japan (Bloomberg) — A retail investor buys shares in a small company, touts his position on social media and inspires a horde of followers to do the same. The stock price goes to the moon — before crashing back to earth.It’s an all-too-familiar tale to anyone watching the market in 2021, but this wasn’t GameStop Corp. It wasn’t even in America. And it happened in 2018.It was in the Japanese city of Osaka, where a day… Source link

Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung breaks down the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the food stamp program. Video Transcript ZACK GUZMAN: In the meantime, that $1.9 trillion relief package signed by President Biden is extending a 15% increase for the country’s food stamp program, a.k.a, SNAP, through September of this year. But what exactly is SNAP? Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung is here to explain that, in this week’s Yahoo U. BRIAN CHEUNG: Class is in session. Today,… Source link

The Daily Beast Biden’s End to ‘Remain in Mexico’ Was Too Late for 41,247 Migrants Paul Ratje/GettyThe last residents of Mexico’s Matamoros refugee camp crossed the border into the United States on March 5 to request asylum.The migrants—many of them Central Americans fleeing endemic violence, poverty and corruption—will be allowed to stay in the U.S. as their cases move through the immigration court system.The exodus from the Matamoros camp, which once sheltered more than 2,500… Source link

Joe Biden didn’t campaign for president as a tax-cutter, but his first big legislative package is turning into a bigger tax cut than the landmark tax bill President Trump signed with great fanfare at the end of 2017. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes at least four provisions that will lower Americans’ 2021 tax bills by an average of $3,360, according to the Tax Policy Center. The 2017 Trump tax cuts only cut the average household’s tax bill by $1,600 per year. There’s… Source link

We came close to getting unlucky, but instead this Friday falls on the 12th, so we can breathe a sigh of relief. On top of that, we can enjoy the five NHL games taking place, with the earliest game starting at 8:00 p.m. ET. That’s an hour later than usual when it comes to setting your DFS lineup. Perhaps it’s the NHL’s attempt to do you a solid before Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday.  Here are some players to target, and to avoid, for your lineup… GOALIE Kaapo Kahkonen, MIN vs. ARI… Source link

MATCHES (ET) FORWARDS Gabriel Jesus, MCI at FUL (£21): Jesus has the third-highest goal-scoring odds of any player and should start for the biggest favorite. He’s been a bit feast-or-famine, though his feast has been solid, scoring three goals in his past four matches. Expect Jesus to continue to start over Sergio Aguero, while he should be flanked by a combination of Raheem Sterling (£29), Riyad Mahrez (£23, MID), or Phil Foden (£23). As mentioned, City are heavy favorites with an implied… Source link

The NBA follows up a busy Thursday with seven games on the schedule Friday. Injuries and several teams playing the second game of a back-to-back set make for some interesting DFS decisions. Here are some players to consider for your entries, as well as a few to possibly avoid. GUARDS Dejounte Murray, SA vs. ORL ($34): The big news for the Spurs is that DeMar DeRozan won’t play because he will be attending his father’s funeral service. That means they will have to play without one of their… Source link

Bloomberg Just How Big and Important Is Sanjeev Gupta’s Metals Empire? (Bloomberg) — Sanjeev Gupta is fighting to save his sprawling empire after Greensill Capital, its biggest lender, collapsed into administration.While the markets for GFG Alliance’s steel mills and aluminum smelters are buoyant, a court filing revealed on Monday that Gupta’s group had told Greensill in February that it would be insolvent without its funding.That casts a shadow over operations that employ about 35,000… Source link

The Fiscal Times The Tax Hikes Tucked Into Biden’s Covid Relief Plan Democrats inserted three tax hikes on the wealthy and large corporations into their $1.9 trillion Covid rescue plan. Together, the three increases are projected to raise $60 billion, Politico’s Brian Faler writes: “One takes away deductions for publicly traded companies that pay top employees more than $1 million. Another provision cracks down on how multinational corporations do their taxes. A third targets how owners… Source link

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