Month: January 2021

Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, pictured this month. (Photo by Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images If all else fails, there is always a SPAC. WeWork, the coworking business that attempted—and failed—to go public in 2019, could soon reach that milestone via a special purpose acquisition company, according
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Biotech firm Novavax said Thursday that its coronavirus vaccine was more than 89% effective in protecting against Covid-19 in its phase three clinical trial conducted in the United Kingdom. The results were based on 62 confirmed Covid-19 infections among the trial’s 15,000 participants. The company said 56 cases were observed in the placebo group versus 6
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People wear protective face masks outside McDonald’s in Times Square as the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on September 18, 2020 in New York City. Noam Galai | Getty Images McDonald’s is expected to report its fourth-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday. Here’s what
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Investor Peter Boockvar is calling the Reddit rebellion “another epic parabolic bubble.” In a research note out this week, he warns the mania into trades from GameStop to American Airlines will ultimately go bust. “Let’s break down the investment strategy: Find the most shorted stocks, buy calls, write about it, buy the stocks and jam it
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Robinhood’s halting of trading of certain stocks has many users reconsidering whether it’s the right platform to hold their cryptocurrency. Some users have considered moving their crypto assets to other platforms, only to realize that Robinhood does not allow cryptocurrency withdrawals. This leaves Robinhood crypto users stuck between a rock and a hard place. If
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Scott Fujii, 34, is given a 24-hour rapid coronavirus test by nurse Caren Williams at Tom Bradley international terminal at LAX airport so he can travel to Hawaii to see family, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, November 23, 2020. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters The first Covid-19
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NBCUniversal kicks off it’s new Peacock streaming service. Todd Williamson | Peacock | NBCUniversal | Getty Images Comcast is set to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings before-the-bell on Thursday. Here are the key numbers Wall Street is expecting: Earnings per share: 48 cents expected, according to Refinitiv survey of analysts. Revenue: $26.78 billion expected, according to
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To defy Wall Street hedge funds and the stocks they bet against, a group of retail investors on Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets rallied together to help drive the stock price of GameStop, AMC Entertainmentand BlackBerry, to name a few. Many traditional investors are concerned by the speculative trading, but billionaire Mark Cuban is not one of
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Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Thursday he believes the Reddit-fueled trading frenzy involving GameStop shares will end poorly. However, the billionaire investor said he wasn’t faulting the people who kicked off the epic short squeeze, which sent the stock to dizzying heights in recent days. “I’m not damning them. I’m just saying from my experience, this
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about spousal benefit rates after taking early retirement benefits, when the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) reductions are applied and potential filing options after a divorce. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security Planning, Inc, which markets
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Case Study No. 4 has four-bedrooms, seven bathrooms and an 850-pound custom teak front door. UnvarnishedCo Scott Gillen is many things. Builder. Artist. Designer. Perfectionist. Visionary. Bold. Unapologetic. “I’m not here to impress anyone, and that’s the truth,” said Gillen. Still, there is no denying that his latest development called The Case —  five oceanfront
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