Moments ago. Our parent, nbcuniversal, investing 500 million in snap during the ipo, as the markets look to cap off a sixth straight week of gains. We have not had backtoback days of losses since the end of january. Ggv capitals managing partner glen solomon, wells fargo chief portfolio strategist Brian Jacobson join us to talk about the markets. Brian, and snap specifically, as this starts to clearly roll into some retail hands, what does that mean for tech and for overall sentiment . Well, i certainly hope that a successful ipo is a harbinger of further successful ipos. You know, you saw a decline in ipo activity last year because of market volatility, so maybe well see a little bit more activity for 2017. For the tech sector as a whole, i think that it shows that people are still optimistic about the outlook. Obviously, you cant extrapolate whats going on with one stock for the rest of the sector, especially such a diverse sector. We still tend to favor those parts of the tech secto
Reality finally caught up with Bernie Madoff on December 11, 2008.
Arrested at the $7m Manhattan penthouse he shared with his wife, Ruth, the man who had run a decade long pyramid scheme made an emotional confession to his sons that âitâs all just one big lieâ. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators spoke of âa stunning fraud that appears to be of epic proportionsâ.
Their suspicions proved correct.
Madoffâs white-collar crime was the largest-ever Ponzi scheme in history. By its end, Madoff had effectively stolen $17.5bn (£11.4bn) from more than 4,000 account holders with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities (BLMIS), as well as from thousands more third-party investors exposed through feeder funds.
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Bernard L. Madoff, the notorious financier who pulled off history’s biggest swindle and came to epitomize Wall Street corruption as the economy plunged into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, died of natural causes while serving a 150-year prison sentence, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. He was 82.
Suffering from kidney failure, hypertension and heart problems, Madoff died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., apparently from natural causes, the person said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
Last year, Madoff’s lawyers filed court papers to try to get the 82-year-old released from prison due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The request was denied.
The onetime “cotton king” of New York City’s garment district forfeited more than half a billion dollars in the aftermath of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.