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After a stunning run-up that saw its price jump over 24,000% in a single year,
Dogecoin s (CRYPTO:DOGE) value is now down about 48% from its all-time highs last month. Investors went into a speculative run-up after the founder and CEO of
Tesla, Elon Musk (colloquially known as the doge father ), publicly announced his investment in the meme currency.
U.S. stocks trade lower Monday afternoon, with technology shares are under pressure, following the worst week for the three main equity benchmarks in nearly three months.
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, and Webull collected $1.02 billion in payment for order flow in the first quarter of the year.
$436 million of these payments came from equity trades, while $587 million have been paid for options trades
The top two paying venues were Citadel Securities, with $445 million paid to the top 5 online brokerages, and Global Executions Brokers with $181 million.
The first quarter of 2021 saw a substantial spike in retail trading activities, mainly caused by various short squeezes in stocks like
GameStop (NYSE: GME) and
AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) Entertainment Holding. Google trends show the peak in search volume for terms like GameStop, Short Squeeze, and Day Trading in the last week of January.
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AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron
The exec made $9.67 million in 2019, before the novel coronavirus pandemic hobbled the exhibition giant and forced a major debt restructuring.
AMC Entertainment Holding CEO Adam Aron received compensation of $20.92 million in 2020, up from $9.67 million in 2019, according to the cinema giant s proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
Aron took home $14.8 million in stock awards last year, compared with $6.48 million a year earlier, on top of his base salary for 2020 that amounted to $1.1 million, just down from $1.25 million in 2019. A key driver of his higher pay was a $5 million bonus last year, while Aron received no bonuses during the previous two years from 2018.