Stock market news live updates: Stocks claw back prior day’s losses, post gains of nearly 2% in bargain-hunting rally as COVID fears wane – Yahoo Finance

Stocks rallied on Tuesday, with Wall Street recouping most of the previous session’s steep losses, as bargain-hunting momentarily counterbalanced rising COVID-19 infections. On Monday, major benchmarks suffered their worst declines of 2021, overwhelming quarterly earnings that have almost uniformly reflected a strong rebound. The rising case count driven by the Delta variant — a more […]

DeFi Derivatives Protocol Vega Raises $43M in CoinList Token Sale – Yahoo Finance

Decentralized derivatives trading protocol Vega raised $43 million in a community token sale on CoinList, it said Tuesday.  The Gibraltar-based project, which launched in 2019 and is expected to go live for trading in Q4 of this year, is a layer 2 solution for trading derivatives in a decentralized fashion. Vega’s software will allow users […]

Op-ed: Don’t buy the sham argument against teaching personal finance in school – CNBC

Nicholas Prior | Getty Images As schools across the country prepare for the coming year, which we hope returns to something like a pre-pandemic normal, the financial literacy community will redouble its efforts to get effective financial education into our nation’s classrooms. After the array of economic uncertainties brought on by a nearly worldwide shutdown, […]

BitMEX Introduces Altcoin and DeFi Basket Indices & Derivatives Contracts, First to be Available 24/7 on Fully Verified Platform – Yahoo Finance

MAHE, Seychelles, July 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BitMEX, one of the world’s leading crypto derivatives platforms, today announced the launch of the BitMEX ALTMEX Basket Index (.BALTMEX) and the BitMEX DEFIMEX Basket Index (.BDEFIMEX), which track the performance of the top ten cryptocurrencies in the Altcoin and DeFi markets, respectively. (PRNewsfoto/100x Group) BitMEX also introduced […]

Iodine derivative kills SARS-CoV-2 within 90 sec – News-Medical.Net

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), which is the causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is often transmitted to others through respiratory droplets from saliva and nasal fluid. When an individual is infected with COVID-19, these tiny droplets contain SARS-CoV-2 viral particles that have a diameter within the range of 0-10 […]