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Crypto Scammers Rip Off Billions As Pump-and-Dump Schemes Go Digital

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Pump and Dumps Are Legal Now

Traditional property interests, Reddit IPO pricing and carbon engineering.

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Bitcoin Had a Flash Crash

Sloppy whale sales, Yellow pensions, private credit poaching and portfolio voting.

United Arab Emirates's Biggest Chemicals Producer Borouge Plc Project

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Banks Can Get Emissions Off the Books

Carbon risk transfers, Trump’s bond, Evergrande accounting, Vitol bribes and sorry to Slorg.

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Slorg Is Sorry Slerf Was Burnt

Crypto knowledge, FTX image rehab, the Elon Musk theory of corporate governance, meme stock governance, AI washing and wine dinners.

Apollo Global Management Headquarters Interviews

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Apollo Partner Did the OK Kind of Fraud

Expense account fudging, a TikTok bidder, Binance in Nigeria and short sellers’ coke dealers.

First Citizens Said To Continue Silicon Valley Bank Pursuit

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To Buy a Bank, You Have to Be a Bank

Shelf charters, charter airlines, China quants, cat bond physicists and Evercore revenue attribution.

DOJ Launches Probe Into ADM Over Its Accounting Practices

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ADM Gave Itself Some Discounts

Also Cantor Fitzgerald’s deal pipeline, down-round employee equity, shifting factors and rainfall-based insurance fraud.

Close up of someone hands holding and counting American dollar banknotes in her hand.

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Cash Advance Looks a Lot Like a Loan

Merchant cash advance, selling volatility to gamblers, buying Bitcoin from BlackRock and OpenAI is fine now.

California's Half-Century Offshore Oil Industry Gets A Retirement Plan

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Exxon Barges in on Hess Deal

Also Avid forgot a convertible, NYCB raised money, Lyft got sued and a guy did fake bankruptcy filings.

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Elon Musk Wanted Control, Not Charity

OpenAI, Celsius earnings leak, Crown Castle fiduciary out, top secret dating and Crypto: The Fragrance.

Key Speakers At The Satellite 2020 Conference

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Twitter’s Executives Want Their Money

Also X debt, Disney vote-buying and BOXX taxes.

Nikkei 225 Hits Highest Level In About 34 Years

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Trading Desks Trade Less, Lend More

Prime brokerage, private stock trading, Tesla legal fees and zombie VCs.

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OpenAI Isn’t Open Enough for Elon

Also a Harvard Business School alumni Ponzi scheme.

Day Three Of The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024

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The Board of Directors Is in Charge

Moelis, Crown Castle, OpenAI securities fraud, JBS securities fraud and inflation super users.

The New York Stock Exchange As Stocks Fall

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Trading Stock Takes Time

Also Alfi, private credit marks and 23-hour trading.

Kraft Heinz Products Ahead Of Earnings Figures

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Ketchup Caddy Sold Some Fake Electricity

Also Mistral’s efficiency, Reddit’s IPO rights and BMO mining memes.

BP Plc Petrol Stations Ahead Of Earnings

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Honey, I Insider-Traded Your Merger

Also anti-Ackman activism, private credit, private IPOs, conversion taxation and Byju vs. Byju’s.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Oil Lubricants Plant

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Put the Money in the BOXX

Also Goldman committees, Ukraine reparations bonds and earnings release typos.

An AMC Theater As Insiders Sell Another $4 Million In Shares Amid Reddit Rally

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Reddit’s IPO Is for Redditors

Also SoundHound and Nano-X, Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, and Allen Brodeur taking Questla private at $420 per share.

Pershing Square Capital Management LP Chief Executive Officer Bill Ackman Interview

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Bill Ackman’s Stocks Went Up

Also The Children’s Place, pre-capitalizations, shadow trading and a rogue AI chatbot.