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Meme Stock Billionaire’s Alibaba Wager Risks Clash With Beijing
(Bloomberg) — Ryan Cohen enthralled a generation of stock market punters by placing counter-intuitive bets on household names from GameStop Corp. to Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Now, the activist ...
BTC365 supports transfer season with a 100% Welcome Bonus and 5% Wager Loss Bonus
Jules Kounde rejected Chelsea’s deal and has decided to join FC Barcelona instead. Manchester United is considering letting Cristiano Ronaldo leave amidst the transfer window as he is rumoured to have...
How Amazon’s $3.9 billion wager on primary care could change your Prime membership
Amazon’s AMZN, +1.52% $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical ONEM, +69.45% is the e-commerce giant’s biggest bet on healthcare to date, and it hints at a future in which primary care and streaming op...
Trader Behind Huge Fed Funds Wager Bags $14 Million in First Day
(Bloomberg) — A trader is pocketing big profits for breaking with the pack and placing a sizable bet that the Federal Reserve won’t increase the size of its interest-rate hikes. Most Read from B...
MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Wager Has Turned Into A Losing Bet
Bitcoin getty MicroStrategy MSTR embarked on a strategy of using its cash and then debt to buy alternative assets when it announced its June 2020 quarter results on July 28, 2020. Over almost two year...
Stakes Hit $10M as Terra CEO Takes Second Wager
Terraform Labs co-founder and CEO, Do Kwon, has accepted a second bet of $10 million on the future price performance of LUNA. The decision comes less than 24 hours after Kwon placed a $1 million bet t...
Terra CEO matches $11 million wager on LUNA price
Do Kwon, the CEO of Luna, has matched 2 bets that wager the LUNA price will be below $88, and $92.48 in a year from now. The $22 million amount of both sides of the bet are now in an escrow under the ...
Berkshire Ramps Up Wager on Occidental as Crude Prices Surge
(Bloomberg) — Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, boosted its investment in energy giant Occidental Petroleum Corp. as oil prices hit their highest level...