Archegos’ Bill Hwang deserves 21 years in prison, US says By Reuters

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bill Hwang, the founder of Archegos Capital Management, should spend 21 years in prison for running a market manipulation scheme that wiped out his $36 billion firm and cost its lenders more than $10 billion, federal prosecutors said on Friday. Hwang, 60, faces a scheduled Nov. 20 sentencing in Manhattan federal court after being convicted in July on 10 criminal charges including securities

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Austria says Russia to cut off gas from Saturday By Reuters

By Nina Chestney, Francois Murphy and Dave Graham LONDON/VIENNA (Reuters) -Russia told Austria on Friday it will suspend gas deliveries via Ukraine on Saturday, in a development that signals a fast-approaching end of Moscow’s last gas flows to Europe. Russia’s oldest gas-export route to Europe, a pipeline dating back to Soviet days via Ukraine, is set to shut at the end of this year. Ukraine has said it will not

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Netflix down for thousands of users in United States, Downdetector says By Reuters

(Reuters) -Netflix was down for thousands of users in the United States late on Friday, with more than 12,000 incidents reported, outage tracking website Downdetector.com said. The reports come as Netflix (NASDAQ:) airs a much-anticipated live boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, that promises to draw high traffic to the platform. The number of users indicating problems had fallen to 5,114, by 9:21 p.m. ET, however, according to

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Major Trump Media shareholder sells nearly entire stake By Reuters

(Reuters) – Trump Media & Technology Group’s key shareholder, ARC Global Investments, has unloaded nearly all its stake in the media company, it said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. ARC and its manager Patrick Orlando now hold about 0.01% stake, down from more than 5% or over 11 million shares in September. Orlando was the former CEO of the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition (NASDAQ:) that took Trump Media

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