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Art at the cryptocurrency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami on June 4, 2021. Marco Bello | AFP | Getty Images Cryptocurrencies are in a summer slump as they navigate a two-month correction period following a string of negative stories. Trading volumes at the largest exchanges, including Coinbase, Kraken, Binance

(Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Climate change has been one of the biggest topics of 2021, but private capital specifically, is still in a very nascent stage in making progress in this space. TPG’s Executive Chairman Jim Coulter is raising one of the very few climate funds in existence. Here he is

An employee of the Internet company Facebook walks through the courtyard of the company campus in Menlo Park, California. Christoph Dernbach | picture alliance | Getty Images When Wall Street analysts take a more bullish stance on a particular stock, it could mean that the name is undervalued and has room to run.  The stocks

In this article DBX Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi (C) celebrate the launch of Dropbox’s initial public offering as they ring the opening bell at Nasdaq MarketSite, March 23, 2018 in New York City. Getty Images Company: Dropbox Inc. (DBX) Business: Dropbox is a single organized platform where users can create

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions Charles P. Rettig, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, during the Senate Finance Committee hearing titled The IRS Fiscal Year 2022 Budget, in Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2021. Tom Williams | Pool | Reuters Wells Fargo‘s decision to pull customers’ credit lines was lambasted

A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past a Wells Fargo & Co. bank branch in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 9, 2020. Peter Foley | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wells Fargo is ending a popular consumer lending product, angering some of its customers, CNBC has learned. The bank is shutting down all existing

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder and CEO, Circle  David A. Grogan | CNBC Payments and digital currency firm Circle plans to go public later this year through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Concord Acquisition Corp. The deal, which Circle announced on Thursday, is expected to close in the fourth quarter and would value the company

Hedge fund founder Anthony Scaramucci told CNBC on Wednesday that the Chinese government’s crackdown on Didi Global, just days after the ride-hailing giant went public in the U.S., is “a direct assault on global capitalism.” “The bad news for the Chinese and the United States now is, if you’re a capital allocator in the United

Olena Ruban | Moment | Getty Images Cannabis industry investors have been treated to a series of legislative catalysts over the last three years that have moved equity valuations.  Notable moments include Canada’s federal adult-use implementation, the election of President Joe Biden, and the Georgia Senate run-off in January. Additionally, the state-by-state legalization movement is

In this article OMEG A set of SkySat satellites before a launch. Planet Satellite imagery and data specialist Planet Labs is preparing to go public, announcing on Wednesday that it will merge with a SPAC to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Planet Labs is combining with special purpose acquisition company dMY Technology Group

In this article CFV A satellite image of the stuck container ship Ever Given in Egypt’s Suez Canal, taken on March 25, 2021. Satellogic Satellite Earth imagery specialist Satellogic is preparing to go public, announcing on Tuesday that it will be the latest in a string of space companies merging with SPACs. Satellogic is merging

In this article WB DIDI TME The Didi ride-hailing app on a smartphone arranged in Beijing, China, on Monday, July 5, 2021. Yan Cong | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S.-traded shares of prominent Chinese companies were under pressure on Tuesday after the Asian country’s officials launched a cybersecurity review of Didi, fueling concerns about

In this article DSX EGLE GNK GOGL SBLK 316-HK 1919-SZ Aerial view of shipping containers sitting stacked at Shenzhen Yantian Port on February 27, 2021 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. Xie Feng | Getty Images Skyrocketing shipping prices, exacerbated by limited vessel supply, could bode well for some of analysts’ favorite shipping stocks. Global

Sir Richard Branson may be trying to be first in the billionaire space race, but he believes there is plenty of opportunity in the market for companies like Virgin Galactic, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, or Elon Musk’s SpaceX. “There’s room for 20 space companies to take people up there,” Branson said in an interview this

Virgin Galactic shares surged on Friday after the space tourism venture announced its next spaceflight test will carry founder Sir Richard Branson. The mission – with two pilots guiding spacecraft VSS Unity carrying Branson alongside three Virgin Galactic employees – plans to launch on July 11 from the company’s operations hub at Spaceport America in

Trading information for GameStop is displayed on the Robinhood App as another screen displays the Robinhood logo in this photo illustration January 29, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The first time Robinhood restricted trading on its app, during the GameStop event in January, may not to be the last, the company said Thursday. In January,

In this article AMC GME Michael Burry attends the “The Big Short” New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on November 23, 2015 in New York City. Jim Spellman | WireImage | Getty Images “The Big Short” investor Michael Burry believes Reddit-favored meme stocks are set to crash like the dot-com and housing market bubbles of

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Wood — a longtime bitcoin bull — has been buying up proxies for the digital asset in names such as Coinbase and Grayscale Bitcoin Trust. Now, the innovation investor is seeking to own the actual asset

An aerial view of the company’s planned factory near Long Beach Airport in California. Relativity Space 3D-printing specialist Relativity Space is adding a second factory in Long Beach, California on the site of a former Boeing facility, where the company will move its headquarters and focus work on building fully reusable rockets. “This is really

Robinhood will pay roughly $70 million in penalties for its systemwide outages and misleading communication and trading practices, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Wednesday. The settlement regards the technical failures Robinhood experienced in March of 2020, Robinhood’s lack of due diligence before approving customers to place options trades and purveying misleading information to customers