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What behavioral science sees in both WallStreetBets and QAnon.

U.S. stock-index futures on Monday trade solidly higher as the market attempts to recover from its worst weekly loss since October as worries about GameStop Corp., stemming from trading in videogame retailer and others, fueled a ripple of selling on Wall Street.

Drugmakers and health officials are trying to reassure Americans that COVID-19 vaccines and antibody-based coronavirus treatments will still be effective against a new strain of the virus that has emerged from South Africa.

MGM recently scored the rights to a book proposal about the WallStreetBets Reddit forum tentatively titled “The Antisocial Network,” Deadline reported Sunday.

‘The process of dividing their estate was done equitably, and without stress or rancor. Until now.’

After initially dropping more than 300 points, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were last up around 100 points, or 0.3%

Amid all the freneticism of the Reddit-hedge fund battle, the simple fact is that it means very little to the majority of investors.

Robinhood is narrowing its list of restricted stocks, but will still impose limits in buying shares of heavily shorted GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. stocks when trading opens Monday.

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Apple TV+ is ascending, and, with another slow month, suddenly Netflix doesn’t feel as essential.

The chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. spoke last year about combining the oil giants, according to people familiar with the talks, testing the waters for what could be one of the largest corporate mergers ever.

‘The arrival of vaccines won’t automatically flip a switch to put the world back on its pre-COVID path,’ said Scott McKenzie, global intelligence leader at Nielsen.

‘Young people almost consistently are expressing more comfort in nearly every question that we’ve asked,’ said Joanna Piacenza, senior editor at Morning Consult.

‘I’ve since worked at other corporations that allowed stock buy-in, and active information on our market leanings. I got none of that at GameStop.’

GameStop is up over 400% in January.