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Churchill Capital Corp. IV spikes up to 17% after Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says he bought the stockFebruary 26, 2021 at 1:06 PM Getty Images / Cliff Hawkins
Churchill Capital Corp IV spiked up to 17% on Friday after Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy tweeted that he bought the stock.The EV maker has had a volatile week, with shares down 52% since it announced its planned merger with Lucid Motors."I had a billion people tell me $CCIV was the go button today. I bought it. I'll prob get killed," Portnoy tweeted.Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening Bell. Shares of Churchill Capital Corp...Tags: Finance, Trends, Markets, Trading, Warren Buffett, Stock Market, Robinhood, Churchill, Portnoy, Matthew Fox, Barstool Sports, Lucid Motors, Dave Portnoy, Mover, Churchill Capital, Churchill Capital Corp 81 people like this. Like Churchill Capital Corp IV plunges 48% after Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with a $24 billion valuationFebruary 23, 2021 at 10:59 AM Lucid Air.
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Churchill Capital IV fell as much as 48% on Tuesday after Lucid Motors struck a deal to go public via the SPAC.The deal will generate $4.4 billion for Lucid, which plans to use the funds to expand its Arizona facility.Churchill's transaction values Lucid at about $24 billion at the PIPE offer price of $15.00 per share.Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening Bell.Shares in Churchill Capital IV fell as much as 48% on Tuesday after the blank-check c...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Trends, Tesla, Bloomberg, Arizona, Electric, Churchill, Cto, Lucid, SPAC, Michael Klein, Rawlinson, Public Investment Fund, Lucid Motors, Peter Rawlinson, Shalini Nagarajan 132 people like this. Like Churchill Capital Corp IV plunges 45% after Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with a $24 billion valuationFebruary 23, 2021 at 9:36 AM Lucid Air.
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Churchill Capital IV fell as much as 45% on Tuesday after Lucid Motors struck a deal to go public via the SPAC.The deal will generate $4.4 billion for Lucid, which plans to use the funds to expand its Arizona facility.Churchill's transaction values Lucid at about $24 billion at the PIPE offer price of $15.00 per share.Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening Bell.Shares in Churchill Capital IV fell as much as 45% in regular trading on Tuesday afte...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Trends, Tesla, Bloomberg, Arizona, Electric, Churchill, Cto, Lucid, SPAC, Michael Klein, Rawlinson, Public Investment Fund, Lucid Motors, Peter Rawlinson, Shalini Nagarajan 92 people like this. Like Churchill Capital Corp IV plunges 35% after Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with a $24 billion valuationFebruary 23, 2021 at 6:01 AM Lucid Air.
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Churchill Capital IV fell 35% in pre-market trading after Lucid Motors struck a deal to go public via the SPAC.The deal will generate $4.4 billion for Lucid, which plans to use the funds to expand its Arizona facility.Churchill's transaction values Lucid at about $24 billion at the PIPE offer price of $15.00 per share.Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening Bell.Shares in Churchill Capital IV fell as much as 35% in early trading on Tuesday after ...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Trends, Tesla, Bloomberg, Arizona, Electric, Churchill, Cto, Lucid, SPAC, Michael Klein, Rawlinson, Public Investment Fund, Lucid Motors, Peter Rawlinson, Shalini Nagarajan 78 people like this. Like 10 things you need to know before the opening bellFebruary 23, 2021 at 6:45 AM Big Tech recovers after a rough day Wednesday on Wall Street.
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Welcome to 10 Things Before the Opening Bell. Sign up here to get this email in your inbox every morning.Sign up for Insider Investing for your weekly markets analysis.Here's what you need to know before markets open.1. US tech rout set to continue, after rising bond yields drive sharp sell-off, while bitcoin plunges again. Nasdaq futures were down sharply after the index plunged 2.46% on Monday.2. Elo...Tags: Home Depot, Asia, Europe, Elon Musk, UK, Congress, US, Trends, Tesla, Hsbc, Ubs, Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve, ESG, Churchill, SPAC 110 people like this. Like Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with $24 billion valuationFebruary 23, 2021 at 12:08 AM Lucid Motors reached an agreement to become a publicly traded company through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital IV Corp, in the largest deal yet between a blank-check company and electric vehicle startup.
The combined company, in which Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will continue to be the largest shareholder, will have a transaction equity value of $11.75 billion. Private investment in the public equity deal is priced at $15 a share, putting the implied the p...Tags: Transportation, Europe, Saudi Arabia, China, Tech, Tesla, Bloomberg, Automotive, Air, North America, Churchill, Cto, Lucid, SPAC, Audi BMW, Atieva 37 people like this. Like ‘Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Will Bring Director Guy Ritchie to World War IIFebruary 22, 2021 at 8:00 PM After helming The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie is ready for something ungentlemanly with Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a World War II movie based on the non-fiction book about the black ops units controlled by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Ritchie will write and direct the film, which is set up at Paramount Pictures and will be executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman.
Deadline has the scoop, revealing that Guy Witchie will write and direct Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, ...Tags: Paramount Pictures, True Story, War 75 people like this. Like Tech stocks tumble as investors balk at lofty valuationsFebruary 22, 2021 at 4:02 PM Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 20, 2019 in New York City
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US stocks closed mixed with the tech-heavy Nasdaq losing over 2% as investors pivot out of highly-valued tech stocks.SPAC Churchill Capital IV spiked as much as 19% on a report a deal with EV maker Lucid Motors could come as soon as Tuesday. Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening Bell.US stocks were mixed on Monday with tech stocks pu...Tags: Ge, US, Trends, Markets, Oil Prices, Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Bitcoin, Reddit, Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve, General Electric, Dow Jones, S&P 500, Churchill, Gamestop 88 people like this. Like Churchill Capital IV soars 33% after report says the SPAC is nearing a deal to take EV maker Lucid Motors publicFebruary 16, 2021 at 3:57 PM Lucid Air.
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Churchill Capital Corp IV is reportedly in talks with Lucid Motors to take the company public.
The SPAC has seen its share price jump over 300% since rumors of the merger first became public on Jan 11.
If the merger goes through, Lucid will be one of the over 130 companies to go public via SPAC this year.
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Churchill Capital Corp IV soared as much as 33% on Tuesday after a report from Reuters suggested...Tags: Ipo, Trends, Tesla, Bloomberg, Citigroup, Ohio, Goldman, Exxon, Churchill, Gamestop, Lucid, Reuters, Fisker, SPAC, Tesla Model, Michael Klein 63 people like this. Like Joe Biden's administration doesn't trust Boris Johnson because of his ties to TrumpJanuary 30, 2021 at 5:16 AM Business Insider
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Boris Johnson has an uphill battle to shake off his associations with Trump and build a relationship with Biden.
Allies of Biden say the prime minister's past comments and ties to Trump are a hurdle to the two men building a strong relationship.
"Do I believe that Boris is liked by [the administration]? No," one Biden surrogate told Insider.
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It was a sign of quite how keen Boris...Tags: Politics, UK, London, Obama, Senate, US, America, Barack Obama, Trends, Joe Biden, Analysis, Atlantic, Britain, United States, Winston Churchill, Northern Ireland 66 people like this. Like Churchill Capital Corp IV rockets 20% as rumors of Lucid Motors merger fuel sustained rallyJanuary 25, 2021 at 9:54 AM Lucid Air presentation with CEO Peter Rawlinson.
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Shares of Churchill Capital Corp IV jumped some 20% on Monday amid continued optimism for a merger with EV Lucid Motors.
Lucid is in talks with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia to create an EV factory in the country.
The EV manufacturer also recently completed the construction of a 590-acre production facility in Arizona.
Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Ope...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Trends, Bloomberg, Arizona, Financial Times, Churchill, Lucid, Jeddah, SPAC, Red Sea, Michael Klein, MicroStrategy, Lucid Motors, Lucid Air, Peter Rawlinson, Casa Grande Arizona 115 people like this. Like Biden administration defends removing Churchill statue from Oval OfficeJanuary 23, 2021 at 4:05 PM The Biden administration on Friday defended the decision to remove a bust of former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval...Tags: Winston Churchill, Biden, Churchill, Oval Office 5 people like this. Like Reaction to Churchill bust removal muted for Biden after outrage for ObamaJanuary 22, 2021 at 12:23 PM It had once been a transatlantic art scandal -- or at least various actors of questionable intent would have you believe it was.Tags: Obama, Cnn, Biden, Churchill 9 people like this. Like Biden removes Churchill bust from Oval OfficeJanuary 21, 2021 at 4:21 PM It had once been a transatlantic art scandal -- or at least various actors of questionable intent would have you believe it was.Tags: News, Stories, Biden, Churchill, Oval Office 50 people like this. Like No 10 takes relaxed view as Biden removes Churchill bust from Oval OfficeJanuary 21, 2021 at 11:09 AM Downing Street says it is up to the US president to decorate White House room as he wishesTags: White House, US, Biden, Downing Street, Churchill, Oval Office 23 people like this. Like Biden removes Churchill bust from Oval Office as part of redesignJanuary 21, 2021 at 10:19 AM President Biden has removed the bust of former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill from display in the Oval Office -- tapping back...Tags: Winston Churchill, Biden, Churchill, Oval Office 9 people like this. Like First patient receives Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine – videoJanuary 4, 2021 at 7:57 AM An 82-year-old retired maintenance manager has become the first person in the world outside clinical trials to receive the vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.Brian Pinker, a dialysis patient, received the jab at 7.30am on Monday from Sam Foster, a nurse at Churchill hospital, part of the Oxford University hospitals NHS foundation trust.Oxford man, 82, first in world to get Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccineCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Continue re...Tags: Health, Medical Research, Infectious Diseases, NHS, Oxford, Astrazeneca, Vaccines and immunisation, University of Oxford, Oxford University, Churchill, Sam Foster, Coronavirus, AstraZeneca Brian Pinker 1 people like this. Like Here’s an early triple play for Kentucky Derby considerationDecember 31, 2020 at 7:13 PM It’s still 120 days until this year’s Kentucky Derby, assuming its run as scheduled May 1, but it’s never too early for us handicappers to look ahead at who might find the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs.
We won’t unveil our first Kentucky Derby Super Six until later this month, but there are a trio of sophomore colts who warrant Derby watchers’ attention this week.
Here’s our early preferred list of Kentucky Derby contenders:
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The Tapit colt is number one on many lists aft...Tags: Sports, Sport, Soccer, Derby, Horse racing, Road, Jackie, Churchill, Godolphin, Bell, Kentucky Derby, Wilson, Brad, Pharoah, Bob Baffert, Keeneland 12 people like this. Like Boris Johnson decried purchase of Churchill's private papersDecember 29, 2020 at 7:01 PM His criticism in 1995 chimed with No 10 misgivings over ownership of PM records, National Archives showBoris Johnson, who has sought comparison with Winston Churchill, denounced spending national lottery money to save the wartime leader’s personal papers for the nation.Confidential files released to the National Archives reveal that a vituperative attack on the initiative by Johnson, then a Daily Telegraph columnist, coincided with Downing Street suspicions over ownership of past prime ministers...Tags: Politics, UK News, Culture, Heritage, Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson, National Lottery, Politics past, Johnson, Downing Street, National Archives, Daily Telegraph, Churchill 24 people like this. Like AA Gill on Britain's Brexit... and Trump's AmericaDecember 17, 2020 at 5:53 PM AA Gill died in 2016, shortly after Donald Trump was elected on a “Make Anerica Great Again” platform in the US, and just as “Brexit” began to reach crisis rhetoric in the UK. This was one of his last columns before he succumbed to cancer at age 62. Worth a read, and a reminder to water what you love. We all know what “getting our country back” means. It’s snorting a line of that most pernicious and debilitating Little English drug, nostalgia. It was the woma...Tags: Europe, UK, London, Supreme Court, Greece, France, Pets, US, America, Eu, Britain, Paris, Italy, Sheffield, New Zealand, Luxembourg 89 people like this. Like Best Books of 2020December 8, 2020 at 5:00 AM John Starke issued a challenge last week:
Listen you all, your Year End lists better be good. We deserve the best lists this year. Don’t go half way.— John Starke (@john_starke) December 4, 2020
No pressure! But Starke has a point: in a particularly trying year, it would certainly help to be pointed to good books and posts.
Here, more or less in descending order, are the best new books I’ve read this year (with Amazon affiliate links).
1. Gentle and Lowly: Gentle and Lowly: ...Tags: Amazon, London, Featured, Life, Book Reviews, Road, Christ, Churchill, Wilson, Ministry, PAUL, Fogg, Alan Jacobs, Erik Larson, Carl Trueman, Robert Farrar Capon 120 people like this. Like "The most prosaic of routines can now deliver delight. Like a bona fide night of restful sleep. Or a prolonged moment of enriching silence. Or, say, the leather chair..."November 26, 2020 at 10:33 AM "... that Al Jirikowic, 68, an art critic and former Adams Morgan bar owner, now sits in five hours a day because there’s nowhere to go. The Churchill, as his throne is known, is where Jirikowic meditates, contemplates the end of civilization and figures out what to eat for lunch. Whatever the case, he’s comfortable. 'I’m thankful I can sit here and space out,' he said. 'You learn to like your solitude. If you don’t, you go nuts.'" From "A comfy chair, a locked door, an old record. Covid Than...Tags: Peanut Butter, Law, White House, Mitt Romney, Secret Service, Churchill, Solitude, Trump, Don, WaPo, Romney, Nate Silver, Ann Althouse, Paul Schwartzman, Adams Morgan, Trump 2020 95 people like this. Like Kind by nature: Have faith in humanityNovember 23, 2020 at 3:07 PM Optimism is what runs the world, and cynicism only serves as an excuse for the lazy. Evil is not inherent to our nature. We have achieved so much because we are friendly and decent. The radical thinker Rutger Bregman paints a new, more beautiful portrait of humanity.Try standing in front of the mirror and remember the worst things ever done – by you personally, and by Homo sapiens as a whole. And smile, because history shows that we are doing much better than you think. This subversive idea belo...Tags: New York, London, Happiness, Compassion, Sociology, New York Times, Innovation, Brazil, Community, Venezuela, Hitler, World Trade Center, William Golding, Humanity, Dresden, Malcolm Gladwell 149 people like this. Like Stephen Moore says that Trump will leave office 'triumphant,' comparing him to Winston ChurchillNovember 22, 2020 at 2:33 PM Stephen Moore.
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Stephen Moore, a conservative economist, said in a Sunday radio interview that President Donald Trump would leave office on a high note due to the progress with COVID-19 vaccines and the economy.
Moore touted the president's handling of the coronavirus with New York businessman John Catsimatidis.
"I think he is going to leave the office triumphant," Moore said of the president. "By early next year, we will have a vaccine that nobody thought was poss...Tags: Politics, New York, US, Trends, Georgia, Joe Biden, Economy, Winston Churchill, Pfizer, Gdp, Parliament, Conservative Party, Biden, Donald Trump, Churchill, Trump 97 people like this. Like Brighton mural of Churchill in stockings and suspenders given reprieveNovember 22, 2020 at 12:03 PM Council was set to paint over it because of wartime PM’s V-sign rather than his lingerieA rainbow mural of seven Winston Churchills wearing stockings and suspenders which prompted a complaint from the local council because of the wartime prime minister’s trademark V-sign is to be allowed to remain in place.The artwork, which appeared on the wall of the Sandpiper guest house on one of Brighton’s busiest streets, was the subject of a council complaint over Churchill’s victory sign, which he used t...Tags: Art, UK News, Culture, Art and design, Winston Churchill, Brighton, Street Art, Churchill, Winston Churchills 19 people like this. Like Brighton mural of Churchill in suspenders given reprieveNovember 22, 2020 at 12:03 PM Council was set to paint over it because of wartime PM’s V-sign rather than his lingerieA rainbow mural of seven Winston Churchills wearing stockings and suspenders which prompted a complaint from the local council because of the wartime prime minister’s trademark V-sign is to be allowed to remain in place.The artwork, which appeared on the wall of the Sandpiper guest house on one of Brighton’s busiest streets, was the subject of a council complaint over Churchill’s two-fingered victory sign, wh...Tags: Art, UK News, Culture, Art and design, Winston Churchill, Brighton, Street Art, Churchill, Winston Churchills 46 people like this. Like Clark Twiddy of Twiddy & Co. – Digitizing Southern Hospitality with Data Science Key to Surviving the PandemicNovember 20, 2020 at 3:00 PM Last week I caught up with Mike Volpe of Lola.com to hear how the travel management service was able to leverage their strong customer relationships to survive a 97% drop in revenue and roll out a brand new offering in the middle of the pandemic.
And the theme of relying on strong customer relationships built pre-Covid to keep afloat as we enter into the second wave of the pandemic carried over Twiddy & Company, a family-owned vacation rental business managing over a thousand properties in the ...Tags: Europe, Interviews, Defense, Disney, Sales, United States, SEC, Dc, Bahamas, Churchill, Lola, Sas, Clark, Outer Banks, Raleigh Durham, Mike Volpe 76 people like this. Like Churchill and Banks teams up with ZDS Architecture, DiPrete Engineering, and The Torrey CompanyNovember 13, 2020 at 4:00 AM Providence, RI Churchill and Banks teamed up with ZDS Architecture, DiPrete Engineering, and The Torrey Company to de...Tags: Radio, Churchill, DiPrete, ZDS Architecture DiPrete Engineering, Torrey Company, Providence RI Churchill 37 people like this. Like Was Winston Churchill “The Greatest Briton”? A Short Claymation Looks at the Darker Side of the Prime Minister’s LifeNovember 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM “In 1962, when British filmmaker Richard Attenborough began researching what would become his 1982 Gandhi film,” writes Lauren Frayer at NPR, “he asked Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, how he should portray his late colleague.” Gandhi was revered, treated as a saint in his own lifetime, long before Attenborough arrived in India. But Nehru begged the filmmaker to treat the man like a mere mortal, with all his “weaknesses, his moods and his failings.” Gandhi was “much too human...Tags: Google, UK, Film, College, Washington, Nazis, India, History, Cnn, Pakistan, Winston Churchill, Sudan, Npr, The Washington Post, Churchill, Attenborough 3 people like this. Like Breeders’ Cup: By My Standards must raise his game in ClassicNovember 3, 2020 at 5:35 PM By My Standards has won three Grade II stakes this year for trainer Bret Calhoun, but he’ll have to step up his game Saturday at Keeneland if he wants to take home all the marbles in one of the deepest Breeders’ Cup Classics in recent years.
Along with the Bob Baffert-trained trio of Improbable (the 5-2 morning-line favorite), Maximum Security and Authentic, Tiz the Law is among the 10 horses entered, along with Tom’s d’Etat. That talented quintet has accumulated 10 Grade I victories this year.
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