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Elizabeth Warren Slams Powell for Weak Regulation, Oversight of SVB: Senator Elizabeth Warren blasted Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for “an astonishing ...
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Elizabeth Warren Slams Powell for Weak Regulation, Oversight of SVB
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Dems Introduce Bill to Reinstate Dodd-Frank Regulations After Twin Bank Failures: Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill to repeal the Trump-era rollback of ...
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Dems Introduce Bill to Reinstate Dodd-Frank Regulations After Twin Bank ...
Quick Glance: What is causing bank failures? SVB and Signature Bank failures explained
  • Over the next 48 hours, there was a surge in customer withdrawals from the bank, which then attempted to raise emergency capital on the equity markets, which investors rejected.

  • It, too, would crumble.

  • "SVB's collapse was caused by a liquidity crisis when many of its larger depositors wanted to take money out at the same time." Haine explained.

  • "The issue at the heart of this was caused by massive losses on SVB's bond investments in the face of rising US interest rates, and a fire sale of these as its clients – typically technology start-up entrepreneurs and venture capital investors – began pulling money out."
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Warren requests student-debt relief for defrauded private borrowers: Millions of student-loan borrowers are being transferred from Navient to MOHELA ...
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Warren requests student-debt relief for defrauded private borrowers
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Warren slams TurboTax for upselling taxpayers during filing process: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) criticized TurboTax on Monday for charging taxpayers for ...
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Warren slams TurboTax for upselling taxpayers during filing process
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Robbins: Elizabeth Warren’s backbone AWOL on Israel: When Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, running for re-election and eager to placate the untethered ...
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Robbins: Elizabeth Warren’s backbone AWOL on Israel
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Warren, Whitehouse demand Chamber explain decision to sue CFPB: Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from a pro-business lobbying giant regarding its ...
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Warren, Whitehouse demand Chamber explain decision to sue CFPB
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Opinion | The Big Bank Elizabeth Warren Loves: There has never been a taxpayer scam like the federal student-loan forgiveness program.
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Opinion | The Big Bank Elizabeth Warren Loves
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Letters to the editor: Herald readers sound off on Biden's student loan forgiveness, the cost of caring for migrants, and Elizabeth Warren's stance on ...
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Letters to the editor
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Crypto executives put money behind longshot bid to oust Elizabeth Warren: More than half a dozen cryptocurrency executives and prominent enthusiasts have donated ...
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Crypto executives put money behind longshot bid to oust Elizabeth Warren
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Republican John Deaton loaned himself $1M in campaign to unseat Elizabeth Warren: Republican Senate candidate John Deaton loaned himself $1 million in his ...
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Republican John Deaton loaned himself $1M in campaign to unseat Elizabeth ...
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Elizabeth Warren Demands U.S. CFTC Chair Explain His Chats With SBF: CFTC chief Rostin Behnam previously disclosed there were meetings and messages with ...
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Elizabeth Warren Demands U.S. CFTC Chair Explain His Chats With SBF
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Opinion | The IRS Is Here to Help With Direct File. Oh No: The tax man wants to file your taxes for you. What could go wrong?
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Opinion | The IRS Is Here to Help With Direct File. Oh No
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John Deaton’s crypto backers help outraise Warren in Senate race: Pro-crypto lawyer John Deaton has raised $1.3 million in Q1, narrowly outraising Elizabeth ...
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John Deaton’s crypto backers help outraise Warren in Senate race
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Letters to the editor: Herald readers sound off on media coverage of Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden, Massachusetts' right to shelter law ...
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Letters to the editor
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Elizabeth Warren targets TurboTax with hilarious ad promoting free tax filing service
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Elizabeth Warren targets TurboTax with hilarious ad promoting free tax ...
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Joe Lewis’ Yacht Aviva Sets Sail After British Billionaire Pays US Fine - Bloomberg
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Joe Lewis’ Yacht Aviva Sets Sail After British Billionaire Pays US Fine - ...
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Crypto trader Avi Eisenberg convicted of fraud in $110 million trade scheme: For the first time, a jury decided whether existing U.S. laws applied to the world ...
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Crypto trader Avi Eisenberg convicted of fraud in $110 million trade ...
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Varta share insider trading: a captain without faith: Business editor Robert Schwarz writes in his commentary why CEO Hackstein's sale of Varta shares is legal ...
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Varta share insider trading: a captain without faith
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Regulating AI: As it continues to reshape securities trading, regulators must remain vigilant.
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Regulating AI
Quick Glance: Tech Giants Compete in Japan for AI Development
  • US tech firm OpenAI establishes first Asia office in Tokyo.

  • The company plans to develop a new generative AI model specializing in Japanese language and culture.

  • Microsoft invests $2.9 billion in the AI industry in Japan.

  • Japanese companies prioritize versatile AI systems and launch AI safety research centers.
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Trump Media’s Stock Is Plunging. His Election Odds Aren’t.: Trump Media’s wildly fluctuating stock price shows that it’s not just an election market for ...
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Trump Media’s Stock Is Plunging. His Election Odds Aren’t.
Quick Glance: A Swift Tech-Stock Bubble and Burst in Three Weeks
  • The value proposition of buying shares of Truth Social's parent company revolves around Donald Trump's ability to make you wealthy, a unique focus.

  • Trump's history of promising financial gains extends to the realm of Truth Social stock, which currently presents a stark contrast.

  • The current trajectory of Trump's stock value compared to its initial rise creates a tech-stock bubble phenomenon.

  • Examining what Truth Social offers without the Trump factor reveals its foundation as a social network built on Mastodon, lacking technical uniqueness.
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Sonic co-creator found guilty of insider trading breaks silence to accuse Square Enix producer of being 'the kind of person who would submit lies to court'
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Sonic co-creator found guilty of insider trading breaks silence to accuse ...
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Crypto trader searched web for 'fraud' before $110 million haul: Eisenberg is accused of commodities fraud, commodities manipulation and wire fraud
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Crypto trader searched web for 'fraud' before $110 million haul
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Chinese AI tycoon’s wife admits to $28.6 million of secret trades: A probe uncovered how the wife of Dawning Information Industry chairman secretly traded in ...
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Chinese AI tycoon’s wife admits to $28.6 million of secret trades
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More legal acrimony for Truth Social, as executive says he was hacked: Founding CEO says former assistant plotted "coup d'état," hacked his accounts.
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More legal acrimony for Truth Social, as executive says he was hacked
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Centre asks states to monitor imported pulses stock: Centre asks states to monitor imported pulses stock
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Centre asks states to monitor imported pulses stock
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Elizabeth Warren faces heat for Israel genocide comments: ‘Amplify dangerous rhetoric’
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Elizabeth Warren faces heat for Israel genocide comments: ‘Amplify ...
Quick Glance: Elizabeth Warren under Fire for Israel Genocide Comments
  • Senator Elizabeth Warren is facing criticism for her recent remarks regarding whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, with the ADL condemning her for amplifying 'dangerous rhetoric.'

  • During a Q&A session at a Boston-area mosque last week, the senator was asked about a potential UN court ruling on Israel's actions in Gaza.

  • Earlier this year, the International Court found it plausible that Israel has violated the Genocide Convention. The ICJ's legal proceedings are ongoing.

  • Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated during a Senate hearing that there is no evidence of genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza, refuting accusations of supporting genocide.
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Refuting Jurists, Lloyd Austin Says US Has No Evidence of Gaza Genocide: The U.S. defense secretary's remarks came after Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other law ...
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Refuting Jurists, Lloyd Austin Says US Has No Evidence of Gaza Genocide
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Student-loan borrowers faced 3.9 million errors with their bills: Dems: A new report from Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues called for student-loan forgiveness ...
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Student-loan borrowers faced 3.9 million errors with their bills: Dems
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Trump's Truth Social has already lost its stock shine: Truth Social is a meme stock, but its investors don't have diamond hands.
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Trump's Truth Social has already lost its stock shine
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Crypto trader disputes talk of manipulation in Mango Markets case: The defense team for Avraham Eisenberg seems prepared to argue that, on blockchains — what's ...
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Crypto trader disputes talk of manipulation in Mango Markets case
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Warren slams MOHELA's request to postpone student-debt hearing: Student-loan company MOHELA requested that Sen. Warren agree to closed-door briefings instead of ...
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Warren slams MOHELA's request to postpone student-debt hearing
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Warren says she would move to block sale of F-15s to Israel: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday she would move to block the sale of F-15s to Israel ...
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Warren says she would move to block sale of F-15s to Israel
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Supermarket prices under pressure in new grocery code: Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the government would reform competition rules for supermarkets to drive down ...
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Supermarket prices under pressure in new grocery code
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Steward crisis: Markey and Warren push to restrict private equity in health care: But with Congress getting little done, it will likely be up to Beacon Hill to ...
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Steward crisis: Markey and Warren push to restrict private equity in ...
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Senate Democrats press Biden to do more on Gaza ‘medical crisis’: A group of Senate Democrats is calling on President Biden to take more action to address the ...
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Senate Democrats press Biden to do more on Gaza ‘medical crisis’
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2 Brothers in Trump Media Insider-Trading Scheme Plead Guilty: Michael and Gerald Shvartsman, who had originally pleaded not guilty to securities fraud charges ...
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2 Brothers in Trump Media Insider-Trading Scheme Plead Guilty
Quick Glance: Donald Trump's Media Company Faces Financial Challenges in 2023
  • Following a high-profile stock market debut, Donald Trump's social media company reported significant losses, with nearly $58.2 million lost last year, resulting in a stock price decline of over 21%.

  • Revenue for Trump Media in 2023 totaled $4.1 million, showing an increase from $1.5 million in 2022.

  • Trump Media began trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol DJT on March 26, experiencing volatility as the stock closed at $48.66 after Monday's sell-off.

  • Analysts have drawn comparisons between the excitement surrounding Trump Media and the meme stock frenzy that boosted shares of companies like GameStop and AMC Entertainment in 2021.
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Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka accuses Dragon Quest producer of lying during insider trading trial
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Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka accuses Dragon Quest producer of lying during ...
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2 brothers who helped fund Trump Media company plead guilty to insider trading: Michael Shvartsman and Gerald Shvartsman made millions, prosecutors say.
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2 brothers who helped fund Trump Media company plead guilty to insider ...
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Disney set to follow in footsteps of Netflix with password sharing crackdown: Disney+ will soon start charging more for people who want to share an account with ...
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Disney set to follow in footsteps of Netflix with password sharing ...
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ABB, UBS and Warren Buffett buy billions of their own shares: Listed corporations love them, and investor legend Warren Buffett is also a big fan ...
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ABB, UBS and Warren Buffett buy billions of their own shares
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CEO Tim Cook Is Now $33 Million Richer After Selling 200K Apple Stocks: Apple CEO Tim Cook sells 196,410 shares, boosting his net worth by $16 million while ...
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CEO Tim Cook Is Now $33 Million Richer After Selling 200K Apple Stocks
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Elizabeth Warren calls on opponents to release tax returns: The challenge marked perhaps the most direct engagement Warren has had with the two GOP challengers ...
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Elizabeth Warren calls on opponents to release tax returns
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EU Weighs If Blockchain MEV Is Market Abuse: European regulators are examining the controversial 'maximal extractable value' practice on crypto networks to ...
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EU Weighs If Blockchain MEV Is Market Abuse
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Ex-Tottenham owner Joe Lewis avoids jail as he pays big fine for insider trading: Billionaire Joe Lewis bought a controlling stake in Tottenham as the majority ...
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Ex-Tottenham owner Joe Lewis avoids jail as he pays big fine for insider ...
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Lawmakers target private equity in healthcare, citing 'rot': Policymakers pointed to the ongoing struggles of Steward Health Care hospitals in a Senate Health ...
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Lawmakers target private equity in healthcare, citing 'rot'
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Charleston pharma exec and cousin admit to illicit pandemic-driven stock trades: A former Charleston pharma executive and a relative pleaded guilty to insider ...
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Charleston pharma exec and cousin admit to illicit pandemic-driven stock ...
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The company he keeps: How an investor got nabbed insider trading Trump’s stock: Michael Shvartsman pleaded guilty Wednesday to using inside information to profit ...
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The company he keeps: How an investor got nabbed insider trading Trump’s ...
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Markey and Warren assail Steward Health Care for ‘rot of their greed’ during hearing on firm’s struggling hospitals in Mass.
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Markey and Warren assail Steward Health Care for ‘rot of their greed’ ...
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Goodbye to budget secrecy, and good riddance : The elaborate pretense has little to do with insider trading and everything to do with media manipulation
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Goodbye to budget secrecy, and good riddance
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Trump Media’s Business Doesn’t Matter: Also pranks, insider trading, more insider trading and bad workplace texts.
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Trump Media’s Business Doesn’t Matter
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What are Bitcoin whales and how to spot them? : What are Bitcoin whales, and why do they matter? Explore the strategies of these major players in cryptocurrency ...
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What are Bitcoin whales and how to spot them?
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Warren reelection: Quincy Councilor Ian Cain files for US Senate: Ian Cain, the Quincy City Councilor and founder of a startup incubator for blockchain ...
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Warren reelection: Quincy Councilor Ian Cain files for US Senate
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Wealth of the Top 1% in US Hits All-Time High of $45 Trillion: "With a 2-cent Ultra-Millionaire Tax on every dollar of wealth above $50 million—and another ...
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Wealth of the Top 1% in US Hits All-Time High of $45 Trillion
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Trump’s Truth Social surges in DJT stock debut, but questions remain: The trading frenzy was a boost for the former president’s wealth. But Truth Social makes ...
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Trump’s Truth Social surges in DJT stock debut, but questions remain
Quick Glance: Trump's Truth Social Stock Surges Despite Company Losses
  • Shares of Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social have seen a significant increase in their first days of trading.

  • Despite the company's lack of profit and meager quarterly revenue, it has been valued at over $8 billion.

  • Experts suggest that the stock surge is driven more by Trump's political supporters than financial fundamentals.

  • While the future of Truth Social remains uncertain in the competitive social media industry, it may serve as a platform for Trump's future media ventures.
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Trump Media stock to begin public trading on Tuesday: A trading frenzy Monday was a triumph for the former president’s wealth. But Truth Social makes very little ...
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Trump Media stock to begin public trading on Tuesday
Quick Glance: Appeals Court Decision Reduces Trump's Bond in Fraud Case
  • In the New York civil fraud case, it was determined that Donald Trump and his co-defendants now have 10 days to post a $175 million bond, compared to the original $464 million.

  • The late ruling from a panel of state Appellate Division judges, all appointed by Democratic governors, represents a significant victory and relief for the former president.

  • Trump's legal team had previously stated that obtaining the larger bond was practically impossible. The court's decision also temporarily prevents the New York Attorney General's office from enforcing the judgment.

  • Additionally, the court imposed a stay on the part of the initial judgment that restricted Trump from acting as a public officer of a company, as well as prohibitions on other individuals, although not all of Trump's requests were granted.
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Trump Media stock to start trading Tuesday as DJT: Donald Trump could get a financial lifeline of billions of dollars as Truth Social's parent company is set to ...
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Trump Media stock to start trading Tuesday as DJT
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Steward-Citigroup deals questioned by Massachusetts senators: The senators are focusing on a financial adviser that helped facilitate sale-leaseback deals ...
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Steward-Citigroup deals questioned by Massachusetts senators
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US Securities and Exchange Commission: Kiwi Eric Watson belatedly lawyers up in case of alleged insider trading
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US Securities and Exchange Commission: Kiwi Eric Watson belatedly lawyers ...
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Share buybacks are a strategy public companies use to return money to their shareholders. Unlike dividends, which distribute profits directly through payments ... Show more   www.forbes.com/sites/investor-hub/article/top-stocks-with-best-buyback-programs/
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Early Google investor accused of insider trading: Andy Bechtolsheim wrote one of the earliest checks for Google, and co-founded Sun Microsystems.
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Early Google investor accused of insider trading
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Letters to the editor: Herald readers sound off on the call to lower interest rates, RFK Jr. as presidential candidate, and Biden's border crisis.
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Letters to the editor
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SEC tests insider-trading theory at trial of ex-Bay Area biotech executive: Securities traders and lawyers are closely watching the San Francisco case of Matthew ...
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SEC tests insider-trading theory at trial of ex-Bay Area biotech executive