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Equities in Canada’s largest market shed their red readings toward the close on Thursday, following a sharp selloff in global markets after Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine. The S&P/TSX index struggled to a gain of 17.76 points to conclude Thursday at 20,761.93. Tech concerns led the parade, with BlackBerry charging ahead 48 cents, or 6%, to $8.45 Health-care stocks also flowered, with Canopy Growth moving ahead 26 cents, or 2.9%, to $9.09. Among utilities, Algonquin Power and Utilities collected 29 cents, or 1.6%, to $17.97. Gold and materials reversed roles and took the punishment. Barrick Gold ditched 25 cents to $28.87, while Agnico Eagle Mines fell $3.15, or 4.5%, to $66.58. Financials also took some lumps, most notably, Canada’s largest bank, the Royal Bank of Canada, which dipped $2.86, or 2%, to $137.63. On the economic calendar, Statistics Canada the number of employees receiving pay or benefits from their employer rose by 122,200, or 0.7%, in December, the seventh consecutive monthly increase.

Photo by Lucrezia Carnelos on Unsplash This post contains sponsored advertising content. This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be investing advice. Fans of “Ready Player One” should be familiar with OASIS, a reality constructed entirely in digital space that players inhabit. The line between the physical and digital worlds is blurred, and for some, the distinction becomes lost. This reality seems even more plausible in the wake of Facebook rebranding to Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: FB ), ushering the term “metaverse” into the popular lexicon. These visions of a digitally mediated reality, whether it be virtual (VR), augmented (AR), or mixed (MR), all fall under the umbrella term of extended reality (XR). XR is still a relatively nascent industry, but the market was already valued at more than $25 billion in 2020, according to research firm Mordor Intelligence. It’s expected to grow at a top rate of 57.91% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $397.81 billion by 2026.

Erste Group analyst Hans Engel downgraded Facebook parent Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB ) to Hold from Buy. Facebook invested 21.7% of revenue in research and development in the last quarter, and the intended reorientation toward virtual products and services offers new earnings potential in the future. Related Content: Full story available on Benzinga.com

Facebook is ramping up efforts to monitor posts and provide users with an additional security feature in response to the military conflict in Ukraine, the company announced Thursday. Facebook established a Special Operations Center to respond…

It seems Spotify has moved swiftly to remove episodes of The Alex Jones Show that were recently added to the service. Watchdog Media Matters reported on Wednesday that episodes of the eponymous far-right conspiracy theorist''s podcast had emerged on Spotify on a daily basis since Sunday, though they''ve since vanished. Spotify banned Jones and his InfoWars outlet in 2018 over violations of its hate speech policies. Several other platforms — including Apple Podcasts , YouTube and Twitter — booted Jones off their services around the same time. Facebook and Instagram banned him the following year. The Alex Jones Show remains on Google Podcasts. Jones made waves in October 2020, when he made an appearance on Joe Rogan''s controversial podcast — several months after Spotify secured exclusive distribution rights to The Joe Rogan Experience . As Variety notes, that episode, in which Jones reportedly made false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines, is still available on Spotify. Engadget has contacted Spotify for comment.

Ritholtz Wealth Management''s Josh Brown said he was waiting to catch somebody else''s falling knife earlier this week . In bear markets, he places limit orders to buy stocks at specific levels, even if those levels are well below where the stocks are trading. That strategy played out Thursday when he grabbed shares of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB ) and RH (NYSE: RH ) near the lows. "I had extraordinarily ridiculous purchase prices put in a long time ago in these stocks," Brown said on CNBC''s "Fast Money Halftime Report." Brown never expected to … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Venture investor Marc Andreessen, best known for seeding companies like Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and Pinterest (PINS), weighed in on the nuclear energy debate Thursday: His…

Investors can be forgiven for feeling seasick. Since hitting record highs in late 2021 and earlier this year, major market indexes have been mostly sinking, with small-company stocks and tech shares faring the worst. The market has endured waves of volatility as investors try to balance strong corporate fundamentals against the fear of monetary tightening as the Federal Reserve attempts to contain inflation. SEE MORE The 22 Best Stocks to Buy for 2022 From its high on Jan. 3, the S&P 500 fell 9.8% through Jan. 27 – technically, just shy of an official correction, considered a 10% drop. The broad market measure tripped the 10% mark intraday, however. It''s not clear whether the market has found a floor. History shows that corrections in volatile election years – as this one promises to be – are often steeper than 10%. But absent a recession, corrections tend to be good buying opportunities. However it plays out, the current unpleasantness is a reminder that stock market corrections are a fact of investing life.

Tech stocks across the board are down today as the market correction is only amplified by Russia''s recent invasion of Ukraine.

Facebook (now known as Meta) has plans to develop an AI research project to create language translation software that works for "everyone in the world." CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: "The ability to communicate with anyone in any language — that’s a superpower people have dreamed of forever, and AI is going to deliver that within our lifetimes."

Did you see what happened to Facebook’s stock? Last week, the social media giant—now Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB)—plunged 26% after reporting bad earnings. Q4 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more And get this: The company lost $232 billion in shareholder wealth overnight. It was the largest one-day drop in value of any stock ever. Of course, if […]

Facebook is struggling to retain users, fending off regulation, trying to pivot to VR, and paying a massive wage premium to attract the workers it needs to make any of this happen. The company is on the ropes I’ve been praying for Facebook’s collapse ever since it attained liftoff. In a 2007 article , I predicted that “your creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook” by demanding to know why you won’t “friend” them, prompting an exodus to the next platform. That was the social network cycle back then: a new network opens, and you and the people you genuinely like enjoy a rollicking group chat until all the people you have to pretend to like show up. That’s the double-edged sword of products that rely on “network effects” – the economists’ term for a product that gets better when more people use it. Sure, you might join Facebook because your friends are all there (and more people might sign up because you’re there), but that also means that every time your friends leave Facebook, it’s a reason for you to leave, too.

Remember when Twitter banned former US President Trump after the alleged January 6 “insurrection”? Soon afterwards, Facebook and Goole issued bans. Shortly after the bans, Trump promised he would launch his own social media app. …

Singapore has attracted several fast-growing startups while also hosting the Asia-Pacific hubs of operation for global companies like Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has called for an independent inquiry into the beleaguered Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), long seen as a bottleneck in the EU-wide enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Haugen, a former Facebook data engineer,…