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WeWork, once a-venture-capital darling, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Co-founded in 2010 by Adam Neumann, the filing marks a reversal for the company that specialized in leasing shared workspaces and was once valued at $47 billion. WSJ breaks down how the desk-rental company went from one of the world’s most valuable startups to a bankrupt penny stock.

Apple Inc. made Wall Street history as the first company with a market value over $3 trillion, the latest sign of big tech's seemingly unstoppable dominance in equity markets.  Bloomberg's Ryan Vlastelica looks at the tech stock rally.

The Adani Group, one of India’s biggest conglomerates, has come under fire from a small American short selling hedge fund called Hindenburg Research. The firm, run by Nathan Anderson, is known for uncovering fraud and other issues at companies like Nikola Corporation, Clover Health, and Lordstown Motors.  Patrick Boyle digs into the allegations, the evidence and Adani's response and discuss what this means for Gautam Adani and for India.

Federal prosecutors and the SEC recently charged seven Influencers with using Twitter, Discord and YouTube to commit securities fraud that netted them more than $100 million.  An eighth influencer was charged with aiding and abetting the alleged scheme in the SEC’s civil complaint and with conspiracy to commit securities fraud in the Department of Justice’s criminal case.  Each of the defendants had well over 100,000 Twitter followers as of this month, they ran a podcast called "Pennies: Going In Raw" and a YouTube channel called "Goblin Gang". Pump and dump (P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price. "Pump and dump" schemes have two parts. In the first, promoters try to boost the price of a stock with false or misleading statements about the company. Once the stock price has been p...