Robinhood’s IPO Access Feature

When regular people talk about March Madness, they’re referring to college basketball. But when traders and investors talk about March Madness, they’re referring to a regional bank stock imploding.

We’re about a year out from three regional banks failing and/or being rescued, and now the sharks are circling New York Community Bancorp. The long story short, until today, is that the regional lender has too much commercial real estate exposure, weak internal controls over financial reporting, and a new CEO trying to right the ship. 🗞️

The U.S. “degenerate economy” is getting its latest entrant, with FanDuel parent company Flutter Entertainment making its debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today. 🤩

With that said, the company did not receive the traditional fanfare it would in a standard initial public offering (IPO). That’s because it was listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in May 2019, and its American depository receipts (ADR) have traded over the counter under the ticker $PDYPY for years.

Plug Power hasn’t given investors much to be excited about over the last few years, but today’s news has people (and its stock price) charged up again. So let’s see what happened. 👇

The alternative-energy company, which provides hydrogen fuel cell technology, finalized a deal with the Department of Energy (DOE) for a $1.6 billion loan facility. This critical funding comes at a time when the company has faced immense liquidity issues, issuing a going-corn warning last quarter and disclosing a secondary share offering of up to $1 billion. 💸