In this article GME GameStop shares surged in extended trading Thursday after the company said it planned to implement a stock split. The video game retailer said it will seek stockholder approval at its next shareholder meeting for an increase in the number of Class A common stock from 300,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 to partly conduct
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Liz Truss, UK foreign secretary, promised to ramp up pressure on Russia © Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images The UK government has announced 14 new sanctions against Russian propagandists and state media that “spread lies and deceit about Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine”. Sergey Brilev, a TV anchor on Russia state-owned media Rossiya, and Russian
Back in 2020, the film industry was in such a tizz over whether the pandemic might destroy cinema forever, it started to reach for extreme solutions, like convincing viewers that seeing Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was worth the risk of contracting a potentially deadly illness. And even though viewing figures for disease-themed entertainment such as the
Toronto-based CI Financial is buying the RIA unit of Eaton Vance Water Oak Advisors from Morgan Stanley, which is shedding the RIA it acquired when it bought asset manager Eaton Vance last March. The RIA, Water Oak, advises on approximately $3 billion in assets. It was acquired by a unit of Eaton Vance in November
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 29, 2022. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Stock futures rose early Thursday as investors assessed a new quarter of trading and a troublesome bond market recession indicator. Investors were also awaiting the official jobs report for March, which
A senior official from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has warned G7 nations that a common framework for regulating digital currencies needs to be put in place as quickly as possible. G7 refers to the Group of Seven, an inter-governmental political forum made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the
Who needs to visit a waterpark when you can have one of the largest home swimming pools in California? A Granite Bay mansion has come on the market for US $6.98 million that has a 260,000-gallon boulder-strewn water complex complete with a 100-foot slide, a lazy river, a swim-up grotto bar and fire pots. An
The structural frame of a house is seen at The Collection at Morristown, a housing development by Lennar Corporation, in Morristown, New Jersey, November 13, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Last week we learned that housing prices grew rapidly yet again in January. The widely followed S&P CoreLogic 20-City Home Price Index was up 19.1%
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has listed crypto assets as an examination priority for market participants this year. “In this time of heightened market volatility, our priorities are tailored to focus on emerging issues, such as crypto assets,” said an official with the SEC Division of Examinations. Crypto Assets Among SEC Examination Priorities The
In May 2021, psychologist Anthony Klotz coined the phrase “The Great Resignation” to describe the record amounts of workers quitting their jobs after reevaluating their roles during the pandemic (cnbc.com, January 2022). Last year, on average, 3.98 million workers quit their jobs each month, the highest average on record since the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Municipals were better Thursday as triple-A benchmark yields fell while U.S. Treasuries were mostly steady and equities ended down. Triple-A municipal yield curves saw one to four basis point bumps. . Muni to UST ratios were at 82% in five years, 94% in 10 years and 104% in 30, according to Refinitiv MMD’s 3 p.m.
TipRanks Jim Cramer Recommends Owning Secular Growth Stocks; Here Are 2 Names Analysts Like One key to market success is learning to recognize trends, overall directions that stocks are taking, and then riding those trends towards profitable returns. Sometimes, that task is easy; for instance, the five years from 2017 through the end of 2021
Gold market manipulation particularly and commodity futures market manipulation generally have been ever-more exciting fields of study. The most dramatic development may have… by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) In recent months gold market manipulation particularly and commodity futures market manipulation generally have been ever-more exciting fields of study. The most