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U.S. stocks traded higher this morning, with the Dow Jones gaining more than 250 points on Monday.

Amid heightened uncertainty about the global economy, all three U.S. indexes are in a bear market as the third quarter comes to a close.

Direxion Energy Bear 2X Shares (NYSE: ERY) was trading flat on Friday after a four-day decline saw the ETF retrace 11% off the Sept. 26 high of $51.45.

After a horrible 2021 for Cathie Wood, the ARK Innovation ETF (NYSE: ARKK) is down another 59.1% in 2022. High-growth tech stocks have taken a beating as interest rates have spiked, sending ARK Invest ETFs plummeting.

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Veeva Sys (NYSE:VEEV). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

Bill Gates the co-founder of Microsoft has been actively involved in investing for change to lessen the impact of climate change. Gates is doing this by investing in companies such as Quantumscape (NYSE: QS), whose objective is to develop solid state batteries for electric vehicles.

The S&P 500 closed out a brutal third quarter on a low note this week, hitting new 52-week lows.

Crypto and decentralized finance is not nearly as obscure as many traditional investors will have you believe. On the contrary, DeFi and token technology has been embraced by some of the world’s most innovative companies, if not silently.