EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has hired Caleb Ward as VP Acquisitions and promoted Anita Levian to Head of Business and Legal Affairs, from Senior Director of Business Affairs. The moves are effective immediately. In addition, a roster of Highland’s key senior executives — Todd Olsson, President of International Sales; Laura […]

Baseball fans, rejoice. The 2021 Major League Baseball season officially begins Thursday in ballparks that will actually hold (some) fans during the regular season, a departure from the 60-game campaign MLB played last year.  This year, the plan is to play all 162. And on Day 1, all fans – no […]

New York (CNN Business)Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey is escalating his criticism against recently passed voting laws in Georgia, saying he wants to be “crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed” in the legislation. In a new statement released Thursday, Quincey said that Coke, which is headquartered in Atlanta, […]

Satellite-to-smartphone broadband company AST & Science expects to close its merger with SPAC New Providence next week, the company said on Thursday. Its stock will trade on the Nasdaq, with the combined company to be called AST SpaceMobile. AST SpaceMobile is building a network of satellites that is designed to […]

AMC's CEO told CNBC the company has asked for approval from shareholders to authorize another 500 million shares. AMC first announced plans to offer the stock in March and shareholders will vote on the measure in May. In January, the company disclosed that it had secured enough financing to remain […]

When stimulus payments hit bank accounts earlier this month, many Americans spent at least a portion of that money to pay their bills.  There was a 30% month-over-month increase in the number of payments made to pay household bills from March 17 to March 21, according to the latest research […]

Conventional wisdom says that when a car buyer drives a new car off a dealer lot, it immediately loses a quarter of its value. There is some truth to that. Used car prices, even for those just a year old, drop sharply from the same models bought new. However, used […]

The pace of the spread of COVID-19 has slowed across America. Increases in daily fatal and confirmed cases are about half what they were seven weeks ago. Nevertheless, 556,487 Americans have died, which is about 20% of the world’s total. Confirmed cases have reached 30,613,592, or about 25% of the […]

‘Money that came into mutual funds near the previous peaks — the second half of 2017 and 2018 — has in most cases experienced unflattering returns.’‘A large proportion of redemptions could be such inflows exiting when the market recovered sharply from July 2020 onwards.’ “We expect a larger number of […]