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Michael Douglas was third choice to play Gordon Gekko in Wall Street

Michael Douglas mistakenly assumed he was the first choice to play Gordon Gekko.

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Bottom 100 Stocks: Wheeler Real Estate Leads the List, Yet the REIT Stands Out as an Interesting Play

Virginia-based Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust is ranked first in Barchart’s Bottom 100 Stocks to Buy. While there are plenty of reasons the tiny microcap is on the list, there’s a plausible argument why it’s an interesting play.

Barchart

China haunts Bilderberg talks as usual suspects plot world domination

The corporate, political and tech bigwigs meeting in Sweden are worried about an ‘authoritarian axis’ – maybe AI drones will fix things?

The Guardian - US

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The 32 greatest movie villains

Serial killers, supervillains, and high school seniors

Total Film

What's the best meal of the day? Four writers argue their case

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day, or is it actually lunch, dinner, or something else entirely? Four writers take a seat at the table to stake their claim

Evening Standard

Is Cleaning Up a true story? This is what inspired the gripping ITV drama

Cleaning Up starring Sheridan Smith was actually based on iconic '80s film, Wall Street

Woman & Home

'Dumb Money' goes all in on the GameStop stock frenzy — and may come out a winner

Think of movies about the financial system and your mind is almost sure to go to Gordon Gekko and “Wall Street” or Leonardo DiCaprio’s gyrating Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

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Insider trading − the legal kind − is a lot more profitable if you work for a multinational company

Corporate insiders who trade stocks based on the information they gain on the job earn a lot more if they work at multinational corporations than their peers at U.S. companies with no sales abroad. That’s the main finding of our new peer-reviewed research.

The Conversation

19 Horrible Movie Bosses Who Got What Was Coming To Them

These are some of the worst bosses in film. Luckily, they find out they aren't always in charge.

Cinemablend

Touching, licking and biting: Magic Mike dancers have #MeToo moment

Dancers say at least two women a week are thrown out of the show

Evening Standard

What is insider trading? Two finance experts explain why it matters to everyone

Insider trading is the term used to describe the illegal act in which someone relies on market-moving, nonpublic information to decide whether to buy or sell a financial asset.

The Conversation

Short-seller Hindenburg accuses corporate raider Carl Icahn of a “ponzi-like” corporate setup

Hindenburg claims Icahn’s exchange-listed investment vehicle lures small amateur investors with an excessively generous dividend funded by issuing $1.7 billion in new shares since 2019.

Fortune

With a 3-1 series lead, it’s time for the Lakers to get greedy

The Lakers cannot let their foot off the gas pedal with an opportunity to close out the Grizzlies in Game 5 on Wednesday.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Mike Sielski: Sixers owner Josh Harris is close to buying the Commanders. That’s not great for the Eagles.

If Josh Harris didn’t exist, Tom Wolfe would have had to create him, then tweet about him. Harris is a thoroughly modern Master of the Universe, a man who made billions in private equity and who, like Gordon Gekko, creates next to nothing but aims to own everything. And in…

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Carl Icahn documentary digs into life of billionaire, but don’t expect an exposé

In a new film, the man who informed Oliver Stone’s Gordon Gekko makes for a compelling central figure

The Conversation

What's insider trading and why it’s a big problem

There’s a growing bipartisan push to prohibit members of Congress from buying or selling stocks. The shift follows news reports that several senators sold stocks shortly after receiving coronavirus briefings in early 2020 and that at least 57 lawmakers have failed to disclose financial transactions since 2012 as required by…

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