Robinhood has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit by an Illinois couple whose 20-year-old son took his own life last year after suffering what he believed to be a massive loss on the stock-trading app. According to court documents filed Monday, Alex Kearns died by suicide last June shortly after Robinhood allegedly led him to believe he owed $730,000 after […]
Read moreThe container ship Ever Given ran aground on Tuesday, blocking the Suez Canal waterway. Several tugboats are working to free the vessel, and in the meantime, ships are being diverted to an older route. The route diversion could cause delays of up to a week. See more stories on Insider’s business page. CAIRO (Reuters) – Ships in the Suez Canal […]
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A former partner at top law firm Russell McVeagh will face several misconduct charges at a disciplinary hearing for alleged sexual misconduct later this year. The New Zealand Law Society National Standards Committee charged the man, whose identity is suppressed, with eight charges of misconduct or unsatisfactory conduct. Some details of the allegations, which were first published in early 2018 […]
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SHANGHAI — The luxury sector may be booming in China with the likes of Dior, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton reporting a surge in sales, but at the opposite end of the spectrum for fast fashion, the country is filling up an entire graveyard of brands. The latest victim appears to be Gap, with Bloomberg this month reporting the American retailer […]
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Salesforce has named Mark Nelson as Tableau’s new CEO as Adam Selipsky leaves for AWS. Nelson is a product-focused leader with previous experience at SAP-owned Concur and Oracle. He has the expertise Salesforce needs as it integrates Tableau two years post-acquisition, analysts say. See more stories on Insider’s business page. With Adam Selipsky leaving Salesforce-owned Tableau to become chief executive […]
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CNBC.com's Pippa Stevens brings you the day's top business news headlines. On today's one year anniversary of the lowest levels of the Covid-driven stock selloff, Bob Pisani explains the unprecedented pace of the market's recovery. Plus, Leslie Josephs breaks down the strengthening demand in airline travel and the upcoming elusiveness of dirt-cheap fares. What investors have learned one year since […]
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By Erin Griffith Robinhood, the stock-trading app, said on Tuesday that it had filed a draft registration to go public, joining a wave of financial technology companies that plan to list on the stock market or that have raised new funding. The exact timing or price of the offering has not been set. Private market investors have valued Robinhood at […]
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Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, won his case at the Supreme Court last year, but an almost identical case from Oregon is pending. (Photo: Matthew Staver, for USA TODAY) DENVER — A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple […]
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