In the closing of the recent trading day, BlackRock (BLK) stood at $787.32, denoting a +0.79% change from the preceding trading day.
BlackRock won a fight with hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein this week when shareholders voted at four of its closed-end funds to keep the asset manager's directors in place and retain it as the manager, new data released on Friday show. Weinstein's Saba Capital Management, a large owner in BlackRock's closed-end funds, and BlackRock, the world's biggest asset management company with more than $10 trillion in assets under management, have been locked in battle for months over the future of 10 BlackRock closed-end funds.
Interactive Brokers (IBKR) launches forecast contracts via its wholly-owned subsidiary ForecastEx, which obtains necessary approvals to operate as a contract market and derivative clearing organization.