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Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management lost 53% in January amid a record rally in GameStop.

Growth prospects for the Indian economy remains fragile after it slipped into a technical recession last year.

The CEOs of Chevron and ExxonMobil last year discussed the possibility of merging the two companies, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

More than 4,500 people were detained by Russian authorities for participating in the protests, according to a monitoring group.

An anonymous author with ties to China says the country is growing increasingly authoritarian under President and General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Ben Kusin, whose dad co-founded the predecessor to GameStop in the 1980s, is an avid follower of the WallStreetBets forum on Reddit.

The call for sanctions comes after tens of thousands of demonstrators protested the poisoning and arrest of Navalny by Russian officials. 

The so-called "Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill" moves to "prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India."

The David-vs.-Goliath premise in the GameStop saga is somewhat flawed.

GameStop mania took Wall Street by storm, thanks to a legion of retail traders glued to the WallStreetBets message board on Reddit.

Heightened speculative trading by retail investors continued to unnerve the market.

Moderna asked the FDA to allow it to put more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in each vial to alleviate a bottleneck in manufacturing, a source tells CNBC.

In an email to customers on Friday, the company touted its ability to fix everything from dents and scratches to "suspension and axle damage"

The EU's vaccination program has been sluggish at best, and looking vulnerable to supply shortages.

January's jobs report and some big earnings are due in the week ahead, but Reddit traders may get more attention.

Robinhood customers can buy one share and up to five options contracts of GameStop.

 "In actuality the data shows that total net shares shorted hasn't moved all that much," Ihor Dusaniwsky of S3 Partners said.

Friday's surge came after Robinhood said it will resume limited trading of previously restricted securities.

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