$DWAC-SPAC-Trump

$DWAC, The SPAC on Crack
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Digital World Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ:DWAC) Blank Check Company aka SPAC Proposes to Merge With Trump Blank-Deck Company. Will SEC Investigate? When “E.F. Hutton Talks”, Will SEC Chairman Gensler Read the SEC and FINRA Rules Prohibiting SPAC Sponsors from engaging with acquisition targets prior to listing?? Just when we thought that MarketsMuse coverage of Donald Trump’s […] Read More

24 October, 2021
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Elon Musk Plans Self-Immolation to Create NFT Artwork; Pre-Auction…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
From the Believe It or Nuts Department: Elon Musk, aka Technoking of Tesla and SpaceX boss, has tweeted that he will create an NFT Digital Video Artwork that showcases his self-immolation. Tesla CFO Zack Kirhorn, who just changed his corporate title to Master of Coin, will wrap the video with an NFT (non-fungible token) for […] Read More

16 March, 2021
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Social Capital SPAC Machine Latest: $500m Blank Check Company…
In ETF News, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Social Capital SPAC factory run by SPACmeister, notorious Tweeter and promoter of RedditArmy favorite stocks Chamath Palihapitiya is rumored to have filed a confidential S-1 for his latest Special Purpose Acquisition Company, (aka SPAC). The entity is to be called SIDS Acquisition Corp. According to sources, @chamath aims to focus on “biotech companies that are […] Read More

2 March, 2021
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“Crypto-Trading Firm” Founder Andrew Katz Now Faces Felony Assault…
In ETF News, Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Strike Price, Tech Talk, Uncategorized> By MarketsMuse Curator
Andrew Katz aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz, the co-founder of so-called digital asset infrastructure and crypto-currency trading firm Seaquake.io, who along with his partner Matthew J. Krueger of San Francisco and UK citizen Dylan Knight are facing investor fraud charges, is now slated to appear in New York Criminal Court April 30 to answer […] Read More

19 February, 2021
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Amateur Day Traders Liberate The Markets-Making The Rich Richer
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
“Amateur Day Traders” by the tens of thousands who are taking tips from #reddit and #daytrading rebels, and particularly, the financial market anarchists who believe you are inflicting pain on fat cat wall street hedge fund traders by squeezing their shorts and bidding up share prices of distressed or challenged companies (e.g $GME, $AMC and […] Read More

31 January, 2021
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GameStop Stock Surge Explained
In ETF News, Fixed Income, slider, Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) $GME share trading during the past days has, if you’ve somehow not heard, proven that an un-coordinated assembly of day traders, enabled and empowered by social media platforms Reddit and WallStreetBets can accomplish what the mob that attempted to take over the capitol in Washington DC could only dream about. Financial Market […] Read More

27 January, 2021
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PFE Covid-19 Vaccine: Will Biden Now Go After SBA…
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
With today’s announcement from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) indicating they are that much closer to a Covid-19 vaccine, its time to look forward to who the Biden administration will appoint to prosecute the tens of thousands of SBA PPP loan scammers who reaped tens of billions after the Trump administration made it a simple feat to fill […] Read More

9 November, 2020
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SBA Bailout Funds Going to Firms on FBI Watchlist
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
PPP and EIDL Fraud is as rampant as COVID-19. According to the front page story appearing in the New York Times April 26 edition, hundreds of millions of dollars in SBA bailout funds that were intended by the US Treasury to assist small businesses impacted by COVID-19 via the Paycheck Protection Program and EIDL Loan […] Read More

27 April, 2020
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Another Cryptocurrency Trading Scam-Former NYSE Floor Broker Charged
In People Profiles, Tech Talk, Uncategorized> By MarketsMuse Curator
In a scheme that reads much like the MarketsMuse story published in October profiling so-called digital asset firm Seaquake.io, whose principals Andrew Katz and Matthew Krueger fraudently claimed to be operating a high-frequency trading system for cryptocurrencies, Michael W. Ackerman of Ohio, and a former NYSE floor broker, was charged yesterday by the US SEC, […] Read More

12 February, 2020
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Remembering D-Day, June 6, 1944
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
We pay tribute to all WWII Veterans, those who landed on the beaches of Normandy, France to repel Nazi Germany’s forces and those who made the ultimate sacrifice on D-Day, June 6, 1944, to defend the values that we hold so dear. MarketsMuse Curators extend a warm salute to Mischler Financial Group, the industry’s oldest […] Read More

6 June, 2019
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GTS and Mischler Financial Group Hold First Annual Fleet…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Working Luncheon will celebrate veterans in the workplace with attendees from notable publicly traded companies May 16, 2019 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments and the largest designated market maker at the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), in partnership with veteran-owned broker dealer Mischler Financial […] Read More

16 May, 2019
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Trump & Co Enable Shareholder Lawsuits Against Cuba; Libertad…
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Long Live the Libertad Act! Taking aim at the Cuban Government, US President Donald Trump and his Board of Directors, led by Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. announced that US shareholders of companies that were seized and nationalized by Fidel Castro when the now-deceased Cuban ruler first took control […] Read More

18 April, 2019
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Quant-Centric ETF Market-Maker Jane Street Adds Corporate Bond Axe
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Curator
Jane Street Capital, the quant-centric proprietary trading firm best known for its dominant role in the ETF marketplace–including its role as a liquidity provider for stocks and options as well as exchange-traded funds to buy-side accounts– has a new arrow in its quiver; making markets in corporate bonds.  The firm disclosed that it is lifted […] Read More

8 April, 2019
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TradeWeb Cashes In, Broker-Dealer Investors Cash Out via IPO
In Fixed Income, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Bonds and Billions 3.0…Tradeweb Markets, one of the original electronic bond trading pioneers, which first introduced its dealer consortium platform in 1996, proved that patience is a virtue when it comes to monetizing enterprise value. The company raised $1.1billion via its Nasdaq-listed IPO yesterday (NASDAQ:NW). Illustrating investor attraction to owning a piece of the fintech […] Read More

4 April, 2019
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Hoorah! HONR ETF; ESG is Now the New Normal…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
ETFs $HONR and $VETS advance an intriguing investment thesis: companies that stand up for military veterans outperform their peers. Much like the view that women-led VC firms tend to outperform their male-dominated competitors, the thesis for investing in a culture-centric portfolio of companies is an approach now used by a broad spectrum of leading institutional investors. […] Read More

7 March, 2019
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MEMX-Do the US Equities Markets Really Need 14 Venues?!
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
For those who missed the MarketsMuse memo from Jan 14, there appears to be yet another exchange coming to the US Equities markets, as if the industry needs one more platform to facilitate trading in publicly-listed stocks. The latest platform, which is still on the whiteboard, is a consortium-based initiative named “Member Exchange”, whose creators […] Read More

24 January, 2019

CNBC Debuts Programming Dedicated to ETFs-Finally!
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse coverage of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry began nearly ten years ago, and our senior curators have since been scratching their heads as to why CNBC, the retail investors’ most-watched business news network had never created dedicated programming to educate their viewers about ETFs, an asset class that has consistently grown (by as much as […] Read More

24 January, 2019

From The Halls of Montezuma-to the Floors of the…
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
US Marine veteran of Operation Just Cause and Operation Desert Storm and veteran NYSE floor trader enlists with designated market-maker GTS with rank of Global Market Commentator From the USMC to the NYSE, Mark Otto re-defines the phrase ‘veteran’ when considering his pedigree as a highly-decorated former US Marine and the 25 years of financial […] Read More

18 January, 2019