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Catch up on the weekend's top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. Microsoft (MSFT) is in advanced talks to buy Nuance Communications (NUAN) in a deal with an equity value of about $16B, or about $56 per share, reported Bloomberg's Liana Baker, Kiel Porter, and Dina Bass, citing...

From the NMHC: NMHC Rent Payment Tracker Finds 79.8 Percent of Apartment Households Paid Rent as of April 6The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 79.8 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by April 6 in its survey of 11.6...

Celcuity Inc. (NASDAQ:CELC) took off skyward soon after Friday’s opening bell.

This, after the company reported a worldwide licensing agreement with Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) to develop and commercialize gedatolisib. The company also reported preliminary data from Phase 1b Trial of gedatolisib plus...

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From SacRealtor.org: Sales volume up 25% over Feb., sales price over $480kMarch closed with 1,292 sales, up 25% from the 1,034 sales in February. Compared to one year ago (1,170), the current figure is up 10.4%....The Active Listing Inventory increased 9.4% from February to March, from 839...

Spruce Point issued a new short report on Porch Group, calling it "a classic example of a company that has never found a business model that makes sense." According to the short-seller's report, the company "was in technical default with a going concern warning before using the frothy SPAC...

Stocks in Toronto stayed afloat till the closing bell Wednesday, on the strength of real-estate and consumer stocks.

The TSX remained buoyant 24.93 points, adding to Tuesday’s all-time high at 19,129.07.

The Canadian dollar dipped 0.28 cents at 79.26 cents U.S.

In the real-estate sector,...

From the Fed: Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, March 16-17, 2021. A few excerpts: In their discussion of current conditions, participants noted that the COVID-19 pandemic was causing tremendous human and economic hardship across the United States and around the world. Following a...

Video game sales were explosive in 2020. For full-year 2020, video game spending just in the U.S. totaled $56.9 billion - up 27% year over year, according to NPD. From here, video game sales could grow even more with big demand and a massive gaming community. Of the total population of 7.7...