Public Markets
Barclay’s Derailed Prison Bond Deal Shows Growing Might of ESG
(Bloomberg) A small group of investors circulated a letter lambasting Barclays Plc for helping to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to build two privately owned prisons in Alabama — two years after the bank publicly vowed to cut financing ties with the for-profit industry.
Read MoreSenators to put Robinhood model under microscope again at GameStop hearing
(Market Watch) Expect a focus on the pitfalls of financial speculation. Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat and a longtime critic of Wall Street, will oversee the questioning of several witnesses who will paint the sudden rise and extreme volatility in meme stocks like GameStop Corp as evidence of the need for fundamental…
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