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Stocks making the biggest premarket moves: Oracle, Paramount, Birkenstock, Rentokil Initial and more

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Oracle — The cloud services company advanced nearly 8% after announcing deals with Google and OpenAI. Oracle plans to make its database available to Google Cloud beginning in November. It also planned to partner with Microsoft and OpenAI for additional computing capacity. Paramount Global…

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Southwest Airlines, GameStop, Advanced Micro Devices and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Southwest Airlines — The stock rose 9% after activist hedge fund Elliott Management amassed a $1.9 billion stake in Southwest Airlines. The firm seeks to replace Southwest CEO Bob Jordan and Chairman Gary Kelly. GameStop — The meme stock slipped nearly 15% in volatile trading after…

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Retail investors may be a step closer to investing in unicorns

An alternative trading platform CEO wants to revolutionize private equity investing to help mitigate a stalling initial public offering market. So, Forge Global’s Kelly Rodriques partnered with Accuidity to launch the Forge Accuidity Private Market Index this spring. The ultimate goal: Give more investors easier access to unicorns. “This is a major financial innovation that’s…