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A federal grand jury indicted seven Twitter users and a podcaster Wednesday on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Commission, charging the eight men with conspiracy to commit securities fraud. The eight influencers are alleged to have used their presence on social media platforms Discord and Twitter to run a “pump and dump” scheme from at least January 2020 to April 2022. So-called meme stocks mentioned by their accounts included GameStop and AMC...

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced Thursday that he bought 80 bitcoin, at a time when the legal tender cryptocurrency maintains a downward trend and is around 20,000 dollars. “El Salvador I buy today 80 btc (at $19,000 each),” the president wrote on Twitter, in English. “Bitcoin is the future, thanks for selling cheap,” he added. Faced with the decline in the price of cryptocurrencies and the criticism his administration is receiving, on June 19 the president said that “patience is the key” when investing in bitcoin.

Moderna lost a patent case on Thursday that had been all but overlooked as the stock surged on excitement around the company’s Covid-19 vaccine, which is set to be tested in a large Phase 3 trial beginning next week. What the decision handed down Thursday by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board could mean for Moderna (ticker: MRNA) isn’t yet clear, but the stock fell 9.5% on Thursday, and was down another 5% Friday in premarket trading. “This legal dispute has been an ongoing debate among investors, and today’s decision is a disappointing turn for MRNA,” wrote SVB Leerink analyst...

So GNC is down to 9.15 a share, it was up to 60.18 in Nov 2013. Last years high was at 34.58 in April, but has since slid into almost penny stock territory. I understand that they are having trouble from theom;ine sales and all, but they are also running a Super Bowl add to help. I guess even if the Super Bowl add helps temporarily it may be a smart move to buy at 9.15 to make a quick profit from the response they get off the add. Anyone agree? By the way you all want a tip? Try...

* Trump has kept his spotlight hot and raised smirks by speculating about a White House run, but now he's scheduling speeches in early primary states * 'A lot of people believe I'm having fun with it, and I enjoy the process,' he said during an Economic Club of Washington event, but 'the country's in serious trouble' * He lashed out at potential opponents including Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz * Couldn't come up with a 'single nice thing' to say about Hillary Clinton and insists Sen. Elizabeth Warren will give her serious competition * Trump has flirted with running...

Nine people have been charged in one of the largest international penny stock frauds ever, federal authorities said Tuesday in New York, one of five states where arrests were made. * * * According to court records, the defendants victimized investors in nearly three dozen countries and generated more than $140 million by fraudulently inflating the price of penny stocks and then dumping them on unsuspecting investors.

The facts in the public domain do not justify the sharp fall in the gold price over the past two trading days. At the time of writing, the price per 1oz is $1363, down over $200 since Friday's open. The scale of the sell-off was the worst in 30 years, with the volatility index standing at the highest level in its history. John Kemp at Reuters has calculated that based on a normal distribution, you would expect to see movements like Monday's only once in every 500 million trading days, or two million years. The news which would justify such...

Deepening Economic Crisis: Inflation, Rising Interest Rates, Surge In The Price Of Gold And Silver Economics / Inflation Apr 24, 2011 - 12:43 PM By: Bob Chapman Economic recovery does not seem to be taking effect in spite of more massive expenditures by Congress and the Fed. The IMF says financial stability has improved, but then again their vision is almost always clouded. US tax revenues are not increasing in a meaningful way, manufacturing struggles to expand and Wall Street flourishes in a cascade of mega salaries and bonuses. In another six months the US will be three years what...

What is going on with silver? When I bought at $17 I was told I was nuts. I have read that $80 or more is not out of the question. Should I buy more? I ain't selling because nowhere do I see that the dollar will be strengthening anytime soon.

SM crashing rapidly!!! Watch this simple video to understand why buying even a 10th oz of gold would be wise. Even though gold is going down as appearing the dollar is going up in value, don’t buy into it. It’s only a paper game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TkFnL0HtL4&feature=player_embedded https://www.learcapital.com/qry/storefront.taf?_function=detail&_storetype=Coins&_product_id=173&_nc=f9ab17ec57c98a5f93098827e32dc8e8

Investors who bought Tesla Motors Inc.’s initial public stock offering last week thought they had a hot one. They did -- for a day and a half. But it has been all downhill since. Shares of the electric sports car maker plunged for a third straight session Tuesday as investors bailed out, pushing the stock below the IPO price of $17. Palo Alto-based Tesla closed down $3.09, or 16.1%, to $16.11. Despite the high hurdles facing the company’s bid to become commercially successful, the hype surrounding the IPO -- the first for an American carmaker since Ford Motor’s offering in...

Circuit City (NYSE: CC) is currently trading at $3.90/common share.Goldman Sachs (GS) is acting as a financial adviser to Circuit City (CC).Investor Mark Wattles, a holder of over 6.5% of Circuit City stock, is hounding Circuit City Executive Management to fire their CEO and Board of Directors.The stock price has bottomed out.The company has net book value which is 200% higher than it's market capitalization.Circuit City is a prime target for a buy-out.The company has very little debt and over $11 Billion in annual sales.The company has hoards of cash and an incredible amount of untapped credit.Circuit City has trimmed...

I have been writing about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) for the past ten months for AOL's BloggingStocks and have been a bull in every article. The shares have been a home run for investors in this difficult and challenging year. Apple is fast becoming the business school case study right before our very eyes as this company is executing flawlessly. Let's examine what's going on here in the calender fourth quarter -- Apple's fiscal first quarter of fiscal year 2008. The stock has ranged these past 12 months from a low of $76 to a high of $192. Currently Apple...

Rudolph W. Giuliani sprinted through october as if he were running for national office. He was, of course, campaigning for other Republican candidates--popping up, over a period of ten days, in eight cities. Wherever he went, Giuliani was the main attraction. The crowds didn't want to hear much about election 2006; they wanted to know if Rudy was planning to run for president in 2008. "I'll make the decision sometime next year," he announced in New Hampshire. Is the outcome in doubt? Giuliani is the closest thing in America to a mythic hero. His reputation was forged in the refiner's...

A former top budget official in the Reagan White House is a target of a criminal investigation into possible financial fraud at an auto parts company he headed before it collapsed into bankruptcy, a federal official told The Associated Press. David Stockman, who rose to prominence as budget director under President Reagan, is the former chairman and CEO of Michigan-based Collins & Aikman Corp. Federal investigators and prosecutors are preparing a case against Stockman and other corporate officers from Collins & Aikman and expect to soon present the findings to a grand jury in New York City, the official said....

A new company is about to make it's debute with a super strong Magnesium Alloy. In testing the Magnesium Alloy AZ91 was rendered 20% stronger then Aluminum 6061 T6. This is basically unheard of in the light wieght alloy business. This new mixture of Magnesium can also be used in any manufacturing process that Aluminum presently can. Also, there are no issues with the Magnesium catching fire at high temptures. This means look for a comeback of real Mag wheels! If an aircraft were built using this new alloy it could weigh as must as 50% less then the same...

Alameda, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Just two days after it claimed to have come up with a new technique for obtaining embryonic stem cells that doesn't involve the destruction of human life, California-based Advanced Cell Technology says investors have given it commitments to raise millions of dollars in new funds. The company had plans to try to raise $11.3 million in private placements but it said that most holders of debentures and warrants to purchase its stock agreed to exercise their options to buy more. That will provide ACT with $8.5 million, according to a San Francisco Business Times news report...

CELEBRATED LIB STRATEGIST HAS SHADY MARKET PAST Jerome Armstrong, the political strategist who followed a famous Internet fundraising effort for Howard Dean in 2004 with a book on "people-powered politics," has a sordid past as a shill for a worthless dot-com stock. Armstrong, 42, touted a dubious Chinese software company, BluePoint, beginning in 1999, without disclosing that he accepted "below-market" shares in exchange for the glowing reports he posted on a site called Raging Bull, according to a 2003 civil suit that named him as a defendant. "Armstrong posted over 80 times on the BluePoint message board located on the...

The MYT™ (Massive Yet Tiny) Engine, is a breakthrough of immense proportions that will spawn the next industrial revolution and will rocket the internal combustion engine into the next millennium. Please spread the word. The MYT™ Engine has the potential to replace all the existing internal combustion engines and jet engines. With 40 times higher power to weight ratio, low parts count, low maintenance, high mechanical efficienty, and low pollution, the MYT™ Engine will benefit airplane, big ship, 18 wheeler, SUV, passenger car, even down to carry on power generator applications. The MYT™ Engine as a pump/compressor also exceeds exisiting...

Washington Business Journal - February 16, 2006http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/02/13/daily20.html LATEST NEWSBusiness Pulse Survey: Should Metro embrace more advertising? Click here to vote Washington Business Journal - 4:46 PM EST Thursday XM Satellite Radio loses $666.7M in 2005 Ben HammerStaff Reporter XM Satellite Radio reported sales increases and much higher losses for the fourth quarter several days after director Pierce Roberts Jr. resigned and warned of a "crisis." The D.C. company's stock price fell 5 percent, or by $1.27, to close at $23.98 Thursday. The broadcaster generated fourth-quarter sales of $177.1 million, compared with $83.1 million a year earlier and 2005 sales...