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US companies have announced $105 billion in planned share repurchases in the first seven days of February, surpassing the full-month tally in January.

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That there could be something like 4 million people leaving their homes, seeking shelter. there is one person, chris, that we met here. she has been waiting for two days to try and pick up children of an acquaintance. their father sending them here, so he can go back to fight. chris? >> wow. thank you alison barbara for your reporting at the checkpoints. and joining me now elena, culture of the transatlantic half force of ukraine, and a fellow at the german marshall front. joy -- in suburban areas outside of kyiv, tell us about what you're seeing, what you're hearing, and maybe what you're tal...

GameStop's Fiendish 'Short Squeeze' Unlikely to Ignite Market-Wide Contagion, Says Barclays © AP Photo / Frank Franklin II Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202102021081958401-gamestops-fiendish-short-squeeze-unlikely-to-ignite-market-wide-contagion-says-barclays/ Wall Street hedge funds have lost billions of dollars since amateur online traders ganged up for a buying spree to raise the stock price of electronics retailer GameStop and other companies in a coordinated "short squeeze" attack. The GameStop (GME) chaos last ...

GameStop’s surge has struck fear into anyone caught on the wrong side of its ascent. But those bearish positions probably aren’t big enough to lay low the larger universe of investment funds. That’s the view of Barclays strategists led by Maneesh Deshpande. By plotting the value of bearish equity bets versus the whole market’s capitalisation, they found that short sales have actually dwindled during the past year to the lowest level since at least 2008. Moreover, those most-heavily shorted companies targeted by day traders this year had bearish wagers amounting to less than 0.001 per ...