Month: January 2021

NEW YORK — Robinhood and other retail brokerages took steps to tamp down the speculative frenzy surrounding companies such as GameStop, but the actions only sparked more volatility in the … Read More

Business software provider Qualtrics went public two years after German software giant SAP bought the company for $8 billion By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press January 28, 2021, 11:49 PM • … Read More

The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, claims that Robinhood’s actions rigged the market against its customers. “Robinhood’s actions were done purposefully and knowingly to manipulate the … Read More

WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress and the White House rejected a Republican pitch to split President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan into smaller chunks on Thursday, with lawmakers … Read More

“This was not a peaceful protest. Hundreds of people came to Washington, DC, to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power,” Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the DC District Court said … Read More

DALLAS — Just how bad was 2020 for the airline industry? The six biggest U.S. airlines lost $34 billion, and Southwest suffered its first full-year loss since Richard Nixon was … Read More

The struggling video game retailer GameStop soared as Reddit users egged each other on to buy, cleverly taking advantage of rules in a game that otherwise would have made a … Read More

No more tiers? Regional Covid-19 curbs could be scrapped under plan to ease restrictions on a national basis when lockdown ends Boris Johnson considering whether the country should go back … Read More

Britain on course to produce another 60million Covid vaccines as UK-based Novavax jab PASSES phase three trial with stunning 90% success rate (including quashing 86% of infections by mutant Kent … Read More

Nicola Sturgeon is accused of taking the EU’s side and risking vaccine rollout as she vows to publish details of UK’s supplies despite Boris Johnson ordering her to keep them … Read More