A mania is under way on Wall Street that is being heralded by some as a revolution of individual investors against pros, but there are concerns that the recent flurry of activity — powered by traders using forums on platforms such as Reddit and Discord — signals a topRead More →
People have spending money on Lysol and Clorox during a year in which coronavirus has upended people’s lives. Cards Against Humanity eschewed its annual Black Friday stunt in light of the pandemic and protests regarding the killing of Black Americans by police. David Ryder/Getty Images For Cards Against Humanity,Read More →
PayPal Chief Executive Dan Schulman said the company aims to “meaningfully contribute to shaping the role that digital currencies will play in the future of global finance and commerce.” PayPal PayPal Holdings Inc. plans to allow customers to buy cryptocurrency through their accounts and use cryptocurrency for merchant payments.Read More →
The impending sale of Arm Holdings Inc. to Nvidia Corp. for $40 billion could have broad implications for the global semiconductor industry, further boosting one of its highest fliers and lifting another major bet by SoftBank Group Inc. The Japanese technology group said late Sunday it had reached anRead More →
Microsoft Corp. has paused negotiations to buy the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app TikTok after President Trump said late Friday he opposes the deal, according to people familiar with the matter. The president’s statements spurred TikTok to make additional concessions, including agreeing to add as many as 10,000Read More →
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus illness COVID-19 topped 10 million around the world and the death toll surpassed a half million over the weekend, and Florida, South Carolina and Nevada all recorded their highest number of new infections in a single day. Florida counted 9,585 new casesRead More →
Elliott Management Corp. has nominated four directors to the board at Twitter Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter, setting the stage for a potential showdown between one of the most prolific and pugnacious activist hedge funds and the influential social-media company. Elliott has taken a roughly $1Read More →
The growing number of COVID-19 cases and deaths outside of Asia has put pressure on U.S. officials to more clearly articulate preparedness plans in an effort to ease American worries about the possibility of a pandemic. President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he plans to hold a news conference onRead More →
Getty Images The rapid growth of the leveraged loan market has divided opinion. The rapid growth in the leveraged loan market has attracted scrutiny from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, sparking concern about the risks to the broader financial system in the event of an economic downturn followingRead More →
Casper Sleep Inc., the startup that popularized the bed-in-a-box trend, saw its shares rise more than 20% in their trading debut Thursday, after underwriters priced its initial public offering at $12, the lower end of a reduced range. That left the company’s valuation at less than half the $1 billionRead More →
After GoPro Inc., the developer of action cameras, went public in 2014, its revenue peaked in 2015 at $1.6 billion. In the four years since then, GoPro investors have never seen sales get back to those levels, and its stock price has fallen about 88% from its market debut. OnRead More →
Toxic workplaces have become easier for corporate shareholders to recognize. This bodes well for changing practices to create safer, stronger companies and foster better business outcomes. Yet identifying bad practices isn’t enough. Culture management is a hard, technical skill. Company leaders need to paint a positive picture of the future in order forRead More →
IBM Corp. investors are hoping that incoming Chief Executive Arvind Krishna will bring the same relentless focus on the cloud that Satya Nadella brought to help turn around Microsoft Corp. Earlier Thursday, news that Ginni Rometty will be stepping down as CEO on April 6 and be replaced by Krishna,Read More →
iStockphoto The Tanger Outlets in Lancaster County. Shares of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers are rocketing higher even as doubts about the future of bricks-and-mortar retailers continue to plague the company, one of the pioneers of outlet-store shopping. But the big share move upward isn’t because investors have had a changeRead More →
The sales-practices scandal at Wells Fargo & Co. that shook investors, regulators and lawmakers in 2016 was worse than you think. ‘I was in the 1991 Gulf War. … This is sad and hard for me to say, but i had less stress in the 1991 Gulf War than lookingRead More →
Robert Hyde, a GOP congressional candidate who has become embroiled in the impeachment investigation, on Saturday said he had been operating Facebook pages displaying posts in his defense while purporting to be run by groups of Trump supporters in different states. The coordination of the pages was uncovered in anRead More →
The market says Google parent company Alphabet Inc. is worth $1 trillion, but investors who have tried know that putting a sustainable valuation on this company is mighty difficult. Alphabet is a confusing company — even figuring out that $1 trillion market cap, which the company surpassed for the firstRead More →
Planning to sell a home in Raleigh, N.C.? There’s a decent chance that an “iBuyer” will purchase it. Raleigh had the largest share of homes bought by companies that use technology to make instant offers on homes. Nearly 7% of homes sold in Raleigh in the third quarter of 2019Read More →
An Alabama man has taken legal action against the security-camera brand Ring after a hacker accessed his device and taunted his kids, according to his reported claim. John Baker Orange filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against Amazon AMZN, -1.23% and the security product, claiming the camera system is “fatally flawed,”Read More →
Facebook Inc. FB, +0.12% and Twitter Inc. TWTR, +0.31% have taken down a global network of fake accounts used in a coordinated campaign to push pro-Trump political messages, including some that used artificial intelligence tools to try to mask the behavior, the companies and outside research firms they worked withRead More →
Amarin Corp.’s stock moved toward a new decade-high price in the extended session Friday after a Food and Drug Administration marketing approval that gave its drug Vascepa a wider use. U.S. traded shares of Dublin-based Amarin AMRN, +4.92% rose more than 5% Friday after being halted for half the tradingRead More →
LAS VEGAS — Amazon.com Inc. has preached the power of the cloud in managing mountains of data. On Wednesday, it announced a whopper of a deal that puts its philosophy to the test: Amazon Web Services is teaming with FINRA CAT LLC, a subsidiary of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority,Read More →
Social-media site Twitter Inc. has collected a lot of likes on its debut $600 million junk-bond deal in the past two days. Yields on the nearly eight-year parcel of bullet bonds, due in 2027, have narrowed to an indicative level of 4% yield from an 4.5% area, according to oneRead More →
In a stunning deal that shows how much the craft-beer industry has changed in recent years, Constellation Brands Inc. on Tuesday unloaded the Ballast Point beer brand — which it bought for a record price in 2015 — to a little-known Chicago-area brewer for an undisclosed sum. Highwood, Ill.-based KingsRead More →
Cannabis stocks fell for a third straight day Monday, weighed down by the industry’s continued weak fundamentals with companies still posting losses as they struggle to generate revenue. The market is digesting the final third-quarter numbers from Canadian and U.S. players and sentiment is being hurt by weaker-than-expected results, accordingRead More →
