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With special purpose acquisition companies controlling more than $1 trillion in purchasing power, any fast-growing company would be crazy not to evaluate going public right now. 

Against that

Shares of BioXcel Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BTAI) are trading lower on Thursday after the company reported somewhat disappointing data from a clinical trial for one of its leading pipeline candidates

This week, audio streaming giant Spotify Technology (NYSE: SPOT) announced that it has acquired Betty Labs, the parent company of live-audio app Locker Room. The deal is rumored to be valued at

Stocks did well on Thursday, on the last day before a three-day weekend for the stock market. The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) led the way forward on Wall Street, rising more than 1.5% as

GameStop (NYSE: GME) shareholders trounced the market last month, with their stock jumping 87% compared to a 4.2% rise in the S&P 500, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

According to a report by Reuters, Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) is in talks to sell its oil and gas fields in Ghana for more than $500 million. The prospective buyer is Boru Energy, an energy

Shares of Ammo (NASDAQ: POWW) jumped 10% higher at the open on Thursday and were up more than 5% in afternoon trading after the ammunition manufacturer raised its full fiscal year guidance.

Ammo has

Shares of MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) rose on Thursday, following bullish analyst remarks. As of 1:50 p.m. EDT, the online marketplace operator's stock price was up more than 2% after rising as much

Shares of Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) jumped on Thursday. The monitoring and analytics platform provider's shares rose as much as 5.8%. As of 1:15 p.m. EDT, however, the stock was up 3.8%.

The stock's

Shares of Uxin Limited (NASDAQ: UXIN), a Chinese used-car e-commerce company, absolutely soared on Thursday after the company disclosed a possible $300 million investment. As of 1 p.m. EDT, the

AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) is looking forward to people getting back into theaters, but pre-pandemic levels have not yet returned. The company still wants more flexibility to potentially issue

The COVID-19 pandemic stalled efforts by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) to open new retail stores that would sell discounted consumer electronics and home goods.

Bloomberg reported today the e-commerce giant

Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD) is apparently interested in bulking up its U.S. banking operations.

"With respect to major mergers and acquisitions in the United States, we're very open," TD Bank's

Investors were in a good mood on the first day of April, and the gains in the stock market were no joke. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) moved above the 4,000 milestone for the first time, and other

In this episode of MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill and Motley Fool analyst Bill Barker discuss how RH (NYSE: RH) sold a lot of luxury furniture in the fourth quarter, wrapping up a great fiscal year

Macao casino monthly gambling revenue climbed to its highest level in over a year in March, reaching 8.3 billion patacas, the local currency, equivalent to about $1 billion. Yet it remains far below

Chinese electric-vehicle maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) said that its deliveries set a new record in March, helping the company deliver its best quarterly sales total to date despite production downtime

Despite numerous rounds of dilution AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE: AMC) investors have already endured over the past year to keep the company afloat, CEO Adam Aron told CNBC's Jim Cramer he wants

Shares of Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) were climbing today, rising alongside broad gains in high-growth tech stocks as the 10-year treasury yield fell and investors responded favorably to details about

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is building a massive battery storage project at its California solar-panel farm using Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) utility-scale Megapack batteries as its storage system.

Technology

E-commerce was already transforming the way we shop before the pandemic hit, but the impact of being stuck at home and reluctant to venture into stores has accelerated the transition.

According to

Shares of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) have climbed as much as 7% today after getting a bullish initiation from Wall Street. Wolfe Research kicked off coverage on Shopify with an outperform rating while

Shares of the lending services company Open Lending (NASDAQ: LPRO) were up about 10% as of 11:20 a.m. EDT after the company announced the pricing of an upsized secondary offering.

Open Lending, a

Shares of Chinese electric-vehicle maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) were higher in early trading on Thursday, after the company's first-quarter sales came in above its guidance. 

As of 10:15 a.m. EDT, NIO's

Shares of Ebang International Holdings (NASDAQ: EBON) plunged on Thursday after the blockchain technology company announced a new stock offering. As of 11 a.m. EDT today, the stock was down 13%.

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