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Oct 04
Ray Dalio has given up control of Bridgewater

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Oct 04
Dow climbs back above June low, but it’s still a ‘buyer beware’ market backdrop

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.19% surged 722 points, or 2.5%, to extend the previous session’s 765-point bounce off the 17-month closing low on Sept. 30. The two-day, 1,487-point rally takes the Dow back above the June 17 closing low of 29,888.78, the break below of which on Sept. 23 helped kick off a […]

Oct 04
Latin Grammy Awards signs 3-year contract for award show NFTs

The Latin Grammy Awards is stepping into Web3 through its first NFT collection in collaboration with the OneOf Web3 music platform. 821 Total views 19 Total shares This year’s 64th Latin Grammy Awards will have its first-ever nonfungible token  collection after the Latin Recording Academy signed a three-year contract for award show-related NFTs. The aforementioned […]

Oct 04
SPAC backing Trump’s Truth Social hit by news Musk is again offering to acquire Twitter at original price

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. DWAC, -3.10%, the special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, buying the company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social social-media company, fell 4% Tuesday after news that Elon Musk is now offering to acquire Twitter Inc. TWTR, +12.67% at the original offer price of $54.20 a share. Musk agreed in April to […]

Oct 04
Micron to invest up to $100 billion to build a ‘megafab’ in Clay, New York

Micron Technology Inc. MU, +5.49% announced Tuesday plans to invest up to $100 billion over the next 20 years to build the U.S.’s largest semiconductor fabrication facility in central New York. The memory chip company’s stock surged 4.4% in morning trading, and has run up 10.0% amid a three-day win streak. Micron said the new […]

Oct 04
Ford September sales fall as drop in trucks offsets near tripling in EVs, but stock jumps over 5%

Ford Motor Co. F, +7.02% said Tuesday that September U.S. vehicles sales fell 8.9% from a year ago to 142,644 vehicles, as a big drop in truck sales offset a near tripling in electric vehicle sales. The auto maker’s stock charged up 5.3% in morning trading, after rallying 2.4% on Monday to bounce off Friday’s […]