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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Sells 20M Shares Amid IPO Lockup Expiration(Benzinga) Uber Technologies Inc (UBER) is down another 13.3% in the past week as the stock endured heavy selling pressure surrounding its IPO lockup expiration on Nov. 6. New SEC filings have revealed one of the biggest...

Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Ken Griffin Says Bitcoin has ‘Elements of the Tulip Bulb Mania‘(StockDailyDish.com) Citadel‘s said Monday that bitcoin may be in a bubble. “Bitcoin right now has many of the elements of the tulip bulb mania we saw back hundreds of years ago in Holland,” said the...

Exclusive: Hedge Fund Whitebox Places Big Bet on Gunmaker Remington (Reuters) (Reuters) –Whitebox Advisors LLC, a credit-focused hedge fund, has been quietly capitalizing on Wall Street’s ambivalence toward gun manufacturers by replacing some banks as a lender to Remington Outdoor Company...

Hedge funds gain in October, but managed futures slow overall returns Tue, 12/11/2019 - 10:43 The global hedge fund industry saw an average return of +0.55 per cent in October, bringing year to data (YTD) average industry returns to +7.09 per cent, according to the October 2019 eVestment hedge...

“I just do what I like to do. I make music.” - Neil Young

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Texas: 86,164 people Arizona: 68,516 people Washington: 55,467 people Nevada: 50,707 people Oregon: 43,058 people Colorado: 28,288 people Florida: 26,888 people New York: 25,255 people Virginia: 21,210 people Idaho: 21,018 people...

“I Sell My Winners Too Early and Hold Losers.” How behavioral analytics can help active investors from repeatedly making the same mistakes. Julie Segal November 08, 2019 David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Thirty years of research in behavioral science has taught us how human brains are wired and...

Amtrak is finally on track to make a profit (well, almost) Last week, Amtrak reported an operating loss of $29.8m across its entire transcontinental network of railroads in the fiscal year 2019 — a huge improvement over its $170.6m loss in 2018. But, even more surprisingly, Amtrak also...

Khosrowshahi's "Mistake" Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an Axios interview that he thought the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a "mistake" by the Saudi government, which happens to be Uber's fifth-biggest shareholder. He also compared it to the accidental killing of a pedestrian...

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Live the life of your dreams.” - Henry David Thoreau

Italian town is offering free houses for anyone who’ll move there By Zachary Kussin November 7, 2019 | 11:41am | Updated Enlarge Image Cammarata, facing a dwindling population, is giving away real estate for free. Getty Images/iStockphoto More On: italy Holocaust survivor gets police guard...

The Texas secessionists:Daniel Miller is the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which is devoted to ending Texas’s 175-year membership in the United States of America. He demands a referendum on secession and calls his plan “Texit” (yes, like Brexit). Miller argues that Texas sends the...

The Bitcoin bandits:With its cheap geothermal energy, Iceland has become one of the leading miners of digital currency. The Advania data center houses computers that are part of the largest concentration of Bitcoin mining power in the world. Advania pulls in what’s estimated to be millions of...

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” - Isaac Asimov

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Business Wynn Resorts accuses Steve Wynn’s ex-wife of creating sex assault allegations By Richard Morgan November 8, 2019 | 9:38pm Enlarge Image Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn AP Nearly two years after casino mogul Steve Wynn left his company amid a torrent of sexual misconduct...

Airbnb struggles to gain back trust after several scandals It’s a not-so-beautiful day in the neighborhood. In the past week, Airbnb has faced scrutiny for a deadly shooting as well as lax enforcement of loopholes that enabled a nationwide scam. This seems like a bad time to ask for extra...

Ferrari kicks its business into a higher gear in its latest race to… serve lasagna? On a recent conference call, the CEO of Italian automaker Ferrari announced plans to diversify beyond its signature stylish supercars… by launching a high-end fashion line and an upscale restaurant. Ummm… what...