Kevin O’Leary on Friday defended the right of retail investors to continue trading shares of GameStop, AMC Entertainment and other stocks that have been hyped online. In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” the O’Shares ETFs co-founder said investors should be allowed to speculate freely — regardless of whether they end up losing their own
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Serhii Shleihel | iStock | Getty Images Here’s what you probably shouldn’t do with that extra money now that you don’t have to pay your student loan bill until October: Sink it all into shares of GameStop. But there are financially sound actions you can take with the additional cash, and you’ll likely thank yourself
With all the drama of the year-end relief bill, many missed the fact that it is part of a large budget law containing a number of tax changes. The Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 (TCDTRA) is a component of the consolidated appropriations law, and it includes some long-awaited modifications and clarifications.
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Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Help is on the way. This week, two companies released more news on their Covid-19 vaccines as they prepare to seek regulatory clearance, flashing signs of hope that the U.S. could soon have more weapons against the pandemic. But with fresh reasons to be hopeful, also came signals
The website of U.K. stock trading app Freetrade. Freetrade LONDON — British share trading app Freetrade told clients Friday that it had disabled purchases of U.S. stocks. Freetrade blamed the halt to U.S. stock purchases on a move by its currency exchange provider and their bank to limit the platform’s trading volume. Freetrade uses U.K.
The Robinhood website home screen on a smartphone. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Restrictions on Robinhood traders are still tight and getting tighter throughout the day on Friday, now only allowing GameStop holders to buy a single additional share. The stock trading app has also expanded its list of restricted stocks from 13
Aimee Dilger | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Maybe you’ve heard by now that an army of retail investors has managed to use one of hedge funds’ common investment strategies against them. That is, short-selling. It generally involves selling borrowed shares of a stock with the belief that the price will drop, at
You’ve won the lottery, and it was a “B”iggie, as in “B”illions of dollars. Now what? The holders of two tickets faced that question last week. On Jan. 22, in Michigan, a Mega Millions ticket hit the jackpot at $1.05 billion. Two days earlier, on Jan. 20, in Maryland, a winning Powerball ticket rang up
getty The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act , signed into law in March 2020, provided a lifeline to many Americans struggling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic turmoil that followed. Among the law’s many provisions was the ability for certain taxpayers impacted by COVID-19 to take distributions of
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Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus vaccine illustration Dado Ruvic | Reuters Johnson & Johnson said Friday that its one-dose coronavirus vaccine was 72% effective in protecting against Covid-19 in the United States. The vaccine, however, was less potent in other regions, it said. The highly anticipated results were based on 468 confirmed Covid-19 infections among the
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Facebook stock was down in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings. Here are the numbers: Earnings: $3.88 per
People walk past a GameStop store in Midtown Manhattan on January 27, 2021 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The astronomical rally in GameStop has imposed huge losses of nearly $20 billion for short sellers this year, but they are not budging. Short-selling hedge funds have suffered a mark-to-market loss of
A stack of Starlink internet satellites just before a launch. SpaceX SpaceX is preparing to begin production of the next-generation of its Starlink internet satellites, according to a company job posting, with the company having deployed more than 1,000 first-generation satellites in orbit to date. A posting on the company’s careers page, open at the time
Not wanting to touch anything is having a dramatic impact on consumer habits. Amid the coronavirus crisis, Americans are abandoning cash almost entirely in favor of “tap and go” transactions and have finally embraced contactless and digital payment methods after years of reluctance. Fewer and fewer adults use printed or minted U.S. currency at all any more.
Members of the Ohio Retired Teachers Association are hoping a forensic investigation of the State … [+] Teachers Retirement System by an independent expert will provide assurance that the pension system is being managed properly and that the investments are being reported accurately. getty After a 3-month campaign of collecting donations from retired and active
Millions of Americans are still waiting for their first and second stimulus payments. getty Still waiting for your stimulus check aka economic impact payment(s)? Owe taxes? You might not see a dime. What? Wasn’t the money supposed to come through when you filed your 2020 tax return this spring? That was what the Internal Revenue
The pandemic misaligned those expectations for a while but now, a year later, we are once again at a … [+] moment of equilibrium in which deal flow is accelerating across New York City. getty New York buyers are feeling shocked to discover that half the properties they saw last week have accepted offers. Sellers,