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Barclays CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan Diagnosed With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

By Joe Hoppe

Barclays to Book $591 Million Loss Due to Debt-Sale Snafu

Barclays BCS -5.47% PLC said it is buying back a slug of structured notes at a loss of about £450 million, or $591 million, after selling too many of them. Structured notes are a type of debt instrument that is linked to an underlying reference such as the S&P 500 or oil. The British bank had registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sell up to $20.8 billion of these notes. It…

These Undervalued Stocks Are Set to Beat Pre-Covid Earnings

These Undervalued Stocks Are Set to Beat Pre-Covid Earnings text size Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis made a list of European companies to beat the earnings of former Kovid in 2021. Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images since Baron’sFinal screening For European stocks whose earnings growth prospects may not be completely reduced, the Kovid-19 situation continues to fall, with cases in…

‘So Unstable and So Volatile’: Oil Crash Crushes Individual Investors, Prompts Trading Overhaul

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For decades, regular people didn’t trade commodities. But electronic trading and new investment products prompted amateur investors to start buying and selling oil.

When prices crashed in April, that foray turned into a disaster, spreading billions of dollars in losses to ordinary people. Many of them then missed out as oil surged in May and June, posting its best quarter in 30 years.

No…