Shares of Made Tech Group PLC rose as much as 22% on Thursday as the company started trading on London’s junior AIM, implying a market capitalization of 219.9 million pounds ($295.3 million).

Investors trading meme stocks spent Wednesday looking at a lot of red.

As the buy-now pay-later trend gains more steam, Mastercard plans to participate more directly

Shares of Bank of Montreal BMO, -1.04% slipped 1.04% to C$128.09 Tuesday, in what proved to be an all-around negative trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE, -1.41% falling 1.41% to 20,174.14.

Jefferies equity strategist Steven G. DeSanctis on Tuesday lifted the firm’s rating on financial stocks to overweight from market weight in a reaction to bearish sentiment around the sector and the prospect of higher interest rates. “Sentiment is downright awful,” he said. “When flows are this bad, the group rebounds and delivers better than average performance.”

Olaplex Holdings Inc. on Tuesday hiked the estimated price range of its upcoming initial public offering to $17-$19 a share, from $14-$16 a share. The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based hair-products maker kept the size of the offering at 67 million shares.

Angie Mclean has been traveling all over looking for a place to call home once her kids have grown up. First she visited American expat favorite, Cuenca, in Ecuador. Nice, she said, but she didn’t fall in love. Costa Rica? Too played out. Thailand? Her dream, but too far from the kids. Mexico? Nope. And Panama, it turns out, wasn’t her place either. Then one morning following some sleep-induced Web browsing, and apparently ticket buying at a steal, when she woke up, there was an email reading “Congratulations, you’re going to Belize.”

Goldman lifts Brent year-end target to $90 a barrel

Shares of Cenovus Energy Inc. CVE, +3.30% rose 3.30% to C$12.52 Monday, in what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE, +0.30% rising 0.30% to 20,463.42.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish toy company Lego said Tuesday that it saw consumer sales soar 36%, revenue grow 46% to 23 billion kroner ($3.62 billion) and net profit going up 140% to 6.3 billion kroner ($992 million) during the first half of 2021.