At about two hours long, the series finale of “Stranger Things” is already pushing the bounds of how long something can be and still be considered a TV episode. To make matters muddier, Netflix announced yesterday it’ll release the episode live in theaters. After “KPop Demon Hunters” became the streamer’s first box office No. 1, earning $19 million in a three-day weekend, it’s no surprise that Netflix is eager to embrace ways to make more out of less as one of its biggest hits enters its final chapter.
US stocks bounced back strongly on Thursday, as the S&P 500 erased the prior session’s losses with a 0.6% gain, the Nasdaq 100 ended up 0.9%, and the Russell 2000 booked an advance of more than 1%. The iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF snapped its longest streak of underperforming the SPDR S&P 500 ETF in over a year, with both AI-geared megacaps and more speculative nonprofitable tech stocks rallying.
