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A lot of people bought and sold Crown Electrokinetics Corp. shares recently, sending them skyrocketing 467.1%. However, the company’s news about smart glasses and fiber optics might not be seen as good. It was the most traded stock on the Nasdaq, with 2.8 billion shares changing hands. The average number of shares traded in a full day is about 37.5 million. Chief Financial Officer Joel Krutz told MarketWatch in an email, “We are keeping an eye on it, but we don’t know what is causing this volume and price spike.” “We have disclosed everything.” With the Securities and Exchange Commission,…

Victor Ricciardi, a behavioral finance expert, says that the meme-stock rally this week that boosted shares of GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. used a number of human traits. Ricciardi, a visiting finance professor at Ursinus College and co-author of the book “Advanced Introduction to Behavioral Finance,” talked about how the meme rally was fueled by people following the crowd. This was made worse by the fact that influential investor and analyst Keith Gill returned to social media. 1.2 million people follow Gill on X, which used to be called Twitter. She is also known as Roaring Kitty. Ricciardi…

Russian officials say that an early Friday morning attack by Ukrainian drones on Crimea cut power to the city of Sevastopol and set fire to a refinery in southern Russia. During Moscow’s offensive in northeastern Ukraine, the drone raids were Kyiv’s attempt to strike back. This has put more pressure on the Ukrainian forces, who are already outnumbered and outgunned and are waiting for Western partners to deliver important weapons and ammunition. Ukraine hasn’t said anything about the attack or taken credit for it. Moscow’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses shot down 51 Ukrainian drones over Crimea, 44 over…

Washington, D.C. Thursday, the Justice Department said that three people had been arrested in a complicated scheme to use stolen identities to make a lot of money for the North Korean government, which is used for things like its weapons program. The scheme involves thousands of North Korean IT workers who, according to prosecutors, are sent to live abroad by the government and use stolen American identities to get remote jobs at Fortune 500 companies in the U.S., where they can access sensitive company data and make good money. Marshall Miller, the principal associate deputy attorney general for the Justice…

NEW ORLEANS— For the second time this month, severe thunderstorms hit southeastern Texas on Thursday. They killed at least four people, broke windows in high-rise buildings, knocked down trees, and cut power to nearly 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area. Chief of Communications and Senior Advisor to the Mayor, Mary Benton, told the Associated Press in the evening that four people had died. Multiple counties were warned of flash floods and severe thunderstorms, and the National Weather Service office in Houston said that damaging winds and even tornadoes could happen into the evening. “If you’re in the path…

Before the market opened on Thursday, Walmart Inc. WMT, -0.05% stock rose to its highest level in two months. This came after the discount retail giant reported a “triple beat”: fiscal first-quarter profit, revenue, and same-store sales all beat expectations, with a big jump in ecommerce sales. This year’s net income for the quarter ending April 30 was $1.67 billion, or 21 cents per share. This year’s net income was $5.1 billion, or 63 cents per share. When one-time items are taken out, adjusted earnings per share of 60 cents were higher than the 53 cents that FactSet predicted. It…

A document sent to the SEC late Wednesday night showed that Daniel Loeb’s Third Point hedge fund has invested more in stocks of big tech companies. As of March 31, Third Point increased its holdings in Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN, -0.58%) by more than 20% and in Meta Platforms Inc. (META, +2.05%) by more than 6%. On Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.75%, it got a little brighter, though. It also said that it had placed a new bet on Marvell Technology Inc. MRVL, +3.13% and other companies. The filing also shows the new Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.27% GOOG, +1.13% stake that the…

Deere & Co. Inc.’s stock experienced a significant decline of 5.5% early Thursday. This came after the company, known for manufacturing agricultural and construction machinery, reported earnings for its fiscal second quarter that surpassed expectations. However, the provided guidance fell short of estimates, leading to the decline in stock value. Deere, headquartered in Moline, Illinois, reported a net income of $2.370 billion, or $8.53 per share, for the quarter ending on April 28. This is a decrease from the $2.860 billion, or $9.65 per share, earned in the same period last year. The sales experienced a 12% decrease, dropping to…

Property and casualty insurer Chubb Ltd. was the unknown stock that Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has been buying lately, according to a regulatory filing released on Wednesday. After the market closed, Chubb shares went up more than 8%. A +0.58% rise in Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) BRK.B, +0.61% File 13-F with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that as of March 31, they owned more than 25.9 million shares of Chubb CB, -0.08%, which is worth $6.7 billion. As of the end of each calendar quarter, big investors have to report the stocks and options they own that they…

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made public on Wednesday, Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management sold shares in Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. during the first quarter and bought shares in an exchange-traded fund that invests in physical gold. People became aware of Burry after reading about his bet against mortgage bonds before the global financial crisis in the book “The Big Short.” Burry sold all of his shares in Big Lots Inc. BIG, -16.56%, Booking Holdings Inc. BKNG, +0.52%, MGM Resorts International MGM, +0.63%, Oracle Corp. ORCL, +0.63%, and Warner Bros Discovery Inc. WBD, -4.21%.…