Tom Yeung here with this week’s Sunday Digest. In 1934, news magnate Charles E. Marsh was already a wealthy man. The 47-year-old media mogul had spent his career buying up small newspapers, and his keen eye for mergers and acquisitions (particularly in Texas) had made him a millionaire. But when it came to Texas’s booming
In this article KVUE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Kenvue, a unit of Johnson & Johnson’s consumer health business. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Company: Kenvue Inc (KVUE) Business: Kenvue is a consumer health company. The company operates through three segments: Self Care, Skin Health and Beauty, and Essential Health. Self Care
In this article HLT CCL RCL NCLH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Royal Caribbean’s “Icon of the Seas,” billed as the world’s largest cruise ship, sails from the Port of Miami in Miami, Florida, on its maiden cruise, on Jan. 27, 2024. Marco Bello | Afp | Getty Images The demand for cruises is
There are many technical indicators for traders to choose from. For Carter Worth, there’s one that stands out above all others: volume. “A lot of charters don’t look at volume. They say it’s all in the price action. … but volume is the essential criteria,” Worth, the founder of Worth Charting with more than three
In this article XRP.CM= BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 4, 2022. Mike Blake | Reuters Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse has been skeptical of crypto regulation in the U.S., but he is feeling highly
When it comes to making money in the stock market, I’ve found that one of the best approaches is to invest in problem-solving businesses. After all, companies that figure out how to solve a widespread problem can generate sustainable demand, revenues, and profits. And that should all lead to higher stock prices. By that logic,
In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT [The stream is slated to start at 2:55 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse will speak at DC Fintech Week in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon. Ripple, the largest
For the past several months, talk of an ‘AI bubble’ has been a media mainstay. I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines – ‘Will AI Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm,’ ‘The Thrill of AI Is Fading,’ ‘Wall Street Sounds AI Bubble Alarm.’ But the truth is, the AI Boom remains alive
[The stream is slated to start at 9:05 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is speaking at DC Fintech Week in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday morning. The agency is in a critical period: The CFTC
In this article PM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, ZYN nicotine cases are seen on a table on January 29, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Philip Morris International shares reached record highs on Tuesday after the tobacco company’s Zyn brand reported soaring demand. Shares
The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images KKM Financial has converted its Essential 40 mutual fund into an ETF, joining the growing shift by asset managers to a more tax-efficient fund model. ETFs make it easier for investors and financial advisors with taxable
In this article NVDA GTLB FTNT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Loren Elliott | Bloomberg | Getty Images Optimism around artificial intelligence has helped lift the S&P 500 in 2024, boosting key chip stocks and power plays in the utilities space. Investors seeking sustainable returns will need
Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Company: Air Products and Chemicals (APD) Business: Air Products and Chemicals is an industrial gases company. It’s focused on serving energy, environmental and emerging markets. Its base business provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining,
Editor’s note: “Where to Focus Your Sights as the AI Boom Rages On” was previously published in August 2024. It has since been updated to include the most relevant information available. In the 1990 film “The Two Jakes,” legendary actor Jack Nicholson says one of my favorite lines: You can follow the action, which gets
For the past several weeks, amid a flurry of positive developments in the self-driving industry, we have been pounding the table on autonomous vehicle stocks. Indeed, just consider: Waymo is already delivering 100,000-plus autonomous rides per week throughout Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. And it’s set to expand to Austin, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia
When it comes to the crypto market, the last seven months can be best summed up with one word: disappointing. Back in March 2024, Bitcoin peaked at record-highs around $73,000. This came right after the first set of Bitcoin ETF approvals and right before the Fourth Halving (two catalysts that were expected to push cryptos
Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024. David A. Grogan Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway continued to increase its stake in SiriusXM, now owning 32% of the New York-based satellite radio company. The Omaha-based conglomerate purchased roughly 3.6 million shares
Tom Yeung here, with this week’s Sunday Digest. Last week, I wrote how smaller companies tend to outperform when the U.S. Federal Reserve cuts rates. These firms are naturally riskier, and so having cheap money makes them more likely to survive. That’s because borrowing money becomes cheaper… Venture capitalists open their wallets… Consumers feel more confident…
Pippa Stevens | CNBC GREENPORT, N.Y. – Roughly 35 miles off the east coast of Montauk, New York, 12 turbines gently spin in the wind at Orsted’s newly developed South Fork Wind farm. The project, which connected to the grid earlier this year, is the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S., providing enough
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