Month: April 2022
Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’
In this photo illustration, the Twitter logo is displayed on the screen of the phone, with Elon Musk’s Twitter account in the background. Twitter was flooded with user reports of high-profile accounts losing thousands of followers in the hours after news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would purchase the social network. Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images […]
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Heat wave in India threatens residents and crucial wheat harvest
Farmers harvest wheat crop on April 14, 2022 in India. The country has just endured its hottest March since records began, according to the India Meteorological Department, and the heat wave is dragging well into harvest time. Vipin Kumar | Hindustan Times | Getty Images A record-breaking heat wave in India exposing hundreds of millions […]
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Luxury EV maker Lucid scores order from Saudi government for up to 100,000 vehicles
With 1,050 horsepower, the new Grand Touring Performance edition becomes the most powerful version of Lucid’s electric Air sedan. Lucid Motors Lucid Group said that the government of Saudi Arabia has agreed to buy up to 100,000 of its electric vehicles over the next ten years. Saudi Arabia’s public wealth fund holds an approximately 62% stake […]
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Alphabet CFO warns of another potentially weak quarter
Alphabet executives on their Q1 earnings conference call warned Q2 will show more deceleration. Source
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Fund management exec, whose firm manages $1.4 trillion, reveals where clients are focused right now
Joseph Pinto from Natixis explains where investors are putting their money at this uncertain time. Source
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Cramer’s lightning round: Fluor is not a buy
Fluor Corp: “Under no circumstance do you want to buy Fluor. That business is way too hard.” Tilray Brands Inc: “Until we get federal legislation [legalizing cannabis], period, these stocks are impossible to own.” Veru Inc: “We need to see a little bit more. … It could be a very big drug.” Source
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Asia-Pacific stocks are set for opening declines following Wall Street drop
SINGAPORE — Shares in Asia-Pacific looked set for a lower open on Wednesday after overnight losses saw the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite sliding to a fresh low for 2022. Futures pointed to a lower open for Japanese stocks. The Nikkei futures contract in Chicago was at 26,125 while its counterpart in Osaka was at 26,000. That […]
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Chipotle staffing back at pre-pandemic levels, company is exploring automation, CEO says
Chipotle Mexican Grill CEO Brian Niccol told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday that the company’s staffing levels are back where they were before the Covid-19 pandemic. “Our staffing is actually at levels pre-pandemic and frankly, our turnover is probably the best it’s been in, I don’t know, a couple years, especially at the manager level,” […]
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Charts suggest near-term market pain may be over, but don’t expect a big rally, Jim Cramer says
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday that the market will likely move sideways instead of experiencing a monster rally when it recovers, leaning on analysis from DeCarley Trading market strategist Carley Garner. “The charts, as interpreted by Carley Garner, suggest the near-term pain might soon be over, but you can’t expect us to go back into […]
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3 things are pulling the market down, but only one needs to settle to find a bottom, Cramer says
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday said that while there are three economic and geopolitical issues currently roiling the market, only one needs to resolve for the market to bottom. “There are three culprits behind our decline: The [Federal Reserve], Russia and China. Any one of them could put an end to this meltdown,” the “Mad […]
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