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Airbnb Inc.’s resilience in the face of a continued travel slowdown because of the pandemic, plus its position against its peers, have analysts bullish and the company’s shares surging Friday.

The continent’s economic woes could worsen with the persistent problems of the bloc’s COVID-19 vaccination campaigns.

Jamie Mackay, a real estate developer with properties in Wyoming and Montana, was shopping for land in 2018 to expand into Park City, Utah. He thought he would just recreate the formula of his Fireside Resorts, which combine camping, a luxury hotel suite and a private vacation rental cabin into one.

The GameStop rally could herald a rise in “noise trader risk,” potentially driving rational traders from obscure, less liquid corners of the stock market and stoking increased volatility, warns one quantitative analyst.

Oil futures settle sharply lower Friday, with the U.S. benchmark pulling back from a 22-month high, as a stronger dollar and jitters ahead of next week’s OPEC+ meeting inspire a round of apparent profit-taking.

As of Feb. 19, only 8 full days into the 2021 filing season, the IRS received 34.69 million individual returns.

It’s no surprise to see both oil and natural-gas prices finish higher for the month of February as frigid temperatures in the nation’s largest energy-producing state of Texas caused temporary output declines, but natural gas has pulled back significantly and is likely to see further losses in the month ahead.

The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 113 million on Friday, amid a flurry of positive vaccine news and as a regulatory advisory committee gathered to review Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine candidate for a possible emergency use authorization.