Customers wear face masks when they shop at a shopping mall in Velizy, outside Paris, on July 20, 2020. Face masks are now required in supermarkets in France, shopping malls, banks, shops, and indoor markets, to limit the spread of coronavirus. Christophe Ena / Associated Press European stocks traded stable …
Read More »Marks & Spencer to cut 7,000 jobs
Pedestrians wearing or covering a face mask due to the COVID-19 pandemic will walk past an M&S (Marks and Spencer) store in central London on 20 July 2020. tolga akmen / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images Marks & Spencer, the iconic but struggling UK retailer, said on Tuesday that it …
Read More »Robinhood is now valued at $ 11.2 billion after last round of financing
Text size Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg Robinhood Markets announced on Monday that it had raised $ 200 million from D1 Capital Partners, raising the company’s valuation to $ 11.2 billion from $ 8.6 billion just last month. It is Robinhood’s third funding round of 2020, and comes after the online …
Read More »ICE borrows $ 6.5 billion to expand its footprint of the mortgage sector
A house for sale in Pittsburgh United Press Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, left $ 6.5 billion in corporate branding Monday to help expand its footprint in the U.S. mortgage sector. That’s more than half of the $ 11 billion that ICE ICE, + …
Read More »SoftBank made big bets on Amazon, Netflix and Tesla Stock in the second quarter
Text size Carl Hof / Getty Images SoftBank Group made big bets on Amazon. com, Alphabet, Adobe, and other technology stocks in the June quarter as part of their program to temporarily stash proceeds from recent asset sales. As of June 30, SoftBank had a $ 1 billion stake in …
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