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Beware of bears selling shorts

If Elon Musk tweets about a stock – GAMESTONK! – are you required to rush out and buy it? Are you required to speculate on it with a lot of money that you can’t afford to lose?

Why ‘dog days’ of summer can be harsh for these bonds

Trading activity in U.S. corporate bonds tends to dry up in late summer, according to Barclays.

Don’t know what your Social Security benefits will be? Uh oh.

What people don’t know can hurt them in planning for the long haul of retirement.

What to make of this week’s action in the stock market and the ‘Great Rotation’

Also: Surprising data on home prices; combining your investments with your politics; and a retirement account mistake you can avoid.

Commodity markets fear a repeat of China’s 2015 economic slowdown

The rally for commodities this year has nearly fizzled out, with a slowdown in China’s economy fueling worries about demand for oil, copper, and other commodities — putting traders on alert over a potential repeat of China’s 2015 stock market crash and global slump in commodities.

‘Like taking candy from a baby’: How Andrew Left allegedly played the market like a fiddle

Touting phony positions and making secret deals with hedge funds were at the heart of the fraud  authorities say Left engaged in as part of a broad market-manipulation scheme.

Consumers’ financial health suffers when sports betting is legalized, new research shows

The easier the access, the more the harm

Gold’s losses this week have left the metal ‘bent but not yet broken’

Gold futures traded sharply higher on Friday, but looked to tally a second weekly loss in row as the precious metal got caught up in the broad drop in risk assets after climbing last week to fresh record-high prices.

Charles Barkley: NBA chose ‘money over the fans’ by picking Amazon over TNT

The NBA signed a $76 billion TV deal with Disney, NBC and Amazon, leaving TNT without any NBA games for the first time since 1988.

Southwest Airlines says passengers wanted assigned seats. For some loyal flyers, ‘it’s a true blow.’

One Southwest fan likened the drastic policy change to the time Coca-Cola rolled out New Coke.

Mohawk Industries’ stock rallies as flooring-products maker draws upgrade on boosted profit view

Mohawk Industries Inc.’s stock jumped 16% on Friday after the maker of flooring products said it would beat analyst estimates for its third quarter and revealed plans to cut more costs, and after drawing an upgrade to buy from hold from BofA Securities.

IMAX, with Hollywood strikes and the pandemic behind it, poised for growth, say analysts

IMAX Corp., is well positioned for growth, say analysts, as the company puts the disruption of the Hollywood actors and writers strikes and the COVID-19 pandemic behind it.
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