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Notice that while retail was buying TSLA, SPCE and MAGA stocks, the best program trading firms were selling to retail all they wanted, and were net short for the week; setting up for Expiration Week and the February Mini-Crash. Program Trading volume last week was over 86% and normal for Post...

The Only 13 S&P 500 Stocks That Rose Today By Nicholas Jasinski Feb. 24, 2020 5:58 pm ET Order Reprints Print Article Text size Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images Getty Images Monday was the worst day for the U.S. stock markets in two years. The S&P 500index lost 3.4%, erasing its 2020...

BAD BUZZ An almond extravaganza fuels a swarm of honeybee heists The humble honeybee is facing an especially unnatural enemy -- the pollen-pushing gangster. The Guardian reports that loosely organized criminals are stealing hives in raids on unsuspecting California beekeepers. There were just...

TAGS TO RICHES The company that makes the tags on your T-shirts is worth ~$500m. How? SML Group, a Hong Kong-based company that makes many of the little labels that go on retail clothes, is up for sale. And, according to Bloomberg News, a number of private equity buyers are considering buying...

Tesla Supercharges Returns of Two Asia Hedge Funds in January (Bloomberg) Tesla Inc.’s 56% share-price rally in January supercharged the returns of a pair of Asia-based hedge funds. Optimus Prime Asset Management Co. got most of its 14.5% gain last month from Elon Musk’s electric car company...

Hedge Fund Manager Gets Nearly 12 Years in Prison for Fraud (AI-CIO.com) Hedge fund manager Nicholas Genovese has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to committing securities fraud by convincing investors to entrust him with more than $11 million dollars...

Phil Falcone Really Knows How To Lever The Hell Out Of A Warhol (Deal Breaker) In spite of having just sold a house for almost $80 million, former hedge fund manager Phil Falcone is apparently hard up for money. This is to an extent understandable, as piano-playing pigs don’t just feed...

"Uber of tractors" John Deere has struck a deal with Hello Tractor, a Nigerian startup that allow farmers to hail tractors with an app. Deere is testing Hello Tractor's technology on its vehicles in Ghana and Kenya, and is targeting a rollout across Africa in the second half of the year. The...

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You could easily drive through this leafy Silicon Valley suburb without realizing you were in America’s richest neighborhood. From the road, it’s all high brick walls and opaque gates. It takes Google Maps to get a glimpse of what lies behind. Satellite images of Atherton, California –- where...

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Burqa-wearing man steals nearly $1 million in jewelry from Piaget in Hudson Yards By Larry Celona and Olivia Bensimon February 24, 2020 | 9:21am | Updated Enlarge Image Piaget at the Shops at Hudson Yards Getty Images More On: robberies Cop couple foils chicken joint robbery on date night...

Only Special Investors Get to Buy These Bonds. They Make Up More Than Half of the High-Yield Bond Market. The case for liberating a growing market Ellen Carr February 21, 2020 Illustration by II Imagine if you were the CIO of a small liberal arts college with an endowment of $65 million...

DELIVERY WARS Why the last mile is the biggest puzzle in the produce aisle The delivery company Skipcart is skipping out on its partnership with Walmart, in another supply-chain breakup for the grocery giant. The move highlights a dilemma in the war to bring brown paper bags right to your...

GREEN GOLD A pistachio power struggle cracked wide open... and the Middle East is going nuts Long before the world’s best-branded nuts danced to “Gangnam Style” in a Super Bowl ad, pistachios were a Persian delicacy popular among history’s most famous food snobs, from the Queen of Sheba to...

Post-Buffett Warren Buffett, soon to be 90, is staying on as Berkshire Hathaway CEO and chairman. But, as laid out in his latest annual missive to shareholders, he does have a succession plan for his fortune—namely, that the executors of his will and trustees to his estate may not sell any...

Supply chains A whopping 94% of the Fortune 1000 is seeing supply-chain disruptions as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. And while most will be aware of the statuses of their Tier 1 suppliers, many have little interaction with their suppliers' suppliers. Fortune

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