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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FTC Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FTCI), a fast-growing global provider of solar tracker systems, software and engineering services, today announced that a large shareholder and director of the Company has received a limited waiver from the representatives of the Company’s underwriters under a Lock-Up Letter Agreement that was entered into in connection with the Company’s initial public offering. The waiver is to permit such shareholder to pledge common st

TORONTO, Aug. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Flow Capital Corp. (TSXV: FW) (“Flow Capital” or the “Company”) announces that it has completed a redemption of C$3.6 million (“Redemption Amount”) and has raised an additional US$2.8 million (“Investment Amount”), against the issuance of Class G Units (“Transaction”) in its Flow Priority Return Fund II LP (“LP II” or “Fund II”). Under the Transaction, a collection of institutional and high net worth investors have subscribed for Class G senior units of

During the pandemic, an additional 1.7 million Americans retired earlier than what would have been expected during the normal times, according to a recent report.

Shares of e-commerce service provider BigCommerce Holdings (NASDAQ: BIGC) were down 12.1% headed into Friday’s close, largely in response to last quarter’s disappointing results. BigCommerce shares had spent the past three months recovering from a sell-off spurred by the previous quarter’s similarly lackluster numbers, climbing nearly 67% from May’s low to yesterday’s close.

A positive jobs report drove U.S. stocks modestly higher Friday, but a parallel rise in Treasury yields signaled a downside: the good news could push the Federal Reserve to curtail its massive stimulus policies faster then expected. “It’s a number that’s hard to say anything but positive things about,” said Sameer Samana, a market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute in St. Louis. Some investors believe the robust jobs numbers could support the view that the Fed, faced with rising inflation and strong growth, may need to unwind its ultra-easy monetary policies sooner than expected.

The meme stock movement took a new turn this week after the Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) brokerage app went public through an initial public offering late last week. As many in the investment community can recall, during the retail investor trading frenzy earlier this year that caused GameStop (NYSE: GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE: AMC) stocks to soar, Robinhood’s platform was overwhelmed, and it needed to restrict buying on some of these names. The trading activity expanded to other heavily shorted stocks, or stocks popular in social media, including fitness and health drink maker Celsius Holdings (NASDAQ: CELH), and the meme stock was born.

A better-than-expected jobs report for July shows the economy may soon be ready to run with reduced support from the Federal Reserve.