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Robinhood said 24-hour trading is coming to its platform as the company that was at the center of the meme-stock frenzy aims to accommodate time-strapped customers while pushing for wider change in trading operations. A rollout of 24 Hour Market will begin May 16 to a "subset" of customers, followed by all customers getting access in June. Trading hours will be from 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday to 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday. "We've often heard from customers that it's tough to find time for investing during regular market hours with work, family, and everything in between," Robinhood said...

--SNIP-- DiNapoli found that as of December 2015, 160 tenants living in affordable units in New York City were making $100,000 or more, with eight making $250,000 or more. As he noted, once a tenant qualifies, they can’t be removed from this housing if their income goes up over time.

August 25, 2005 The Times Stone axes highlight 10,000 years of commuting in stockbroker belt By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered an important Stone Age site in the heart of Surrey. An excavation has turned up flint tools and cooking pots from about 10,000 years ago at the site on the North Downs. The area, which bears the remains of cooked meals, campfires and flints shaped into tools by people who visited the North Downs around 8,000BC, is believed to contain one of the most important Mesolithic excavations in Britain. Andrew Josephs, an archaeologist and the project’s consultant,...

A little fact is a dangerous thing Since I'm talking on Saturday at BloggerCon about blogs and journalism, I've been thinking about what seems to me to be the central issue in this field: trust. Here is a semi-formed essay -- consider it a sort of notes-in-progress. Three weeks ago, reading a New York Times "Political Memo" piece (9/7/03) by Adam Nagourney, my eyes scanned the following sentence: "Perpetuating a widely circulated myth, a senior adviser to a Dean rival recently sent an e-mail message saying, 'You do know that he is the Dean of Dean Witter, don't you?' He...