Month: June 2022
Asia-Pacific markets poised to trade lower; survey on China’s factory activity results ahead
SINGAPORE — Asia-Pacific futures pointed to a lower open on the first day of the new quarter as investors wait for the results of a private survey on Chinese factory activity. The Nikkei futures contract in Osaka was at 26,380. That’s compared against the Nikkei 225’s last close at 26,393.04. In Australia, SPI futures were […]
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China clears its backlog of stranded Australian coal — but don’t expect Beijing to buy more soon
A bulldozer pushes coal onto a conveyor belt at the Jiangyou Power Station on January 28, 2022 in Jiangyou, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province of China. Liu Zhongjun | China News Service | Getty Images China has finished clearing a backlog of stranded Australian coal amounting to over $1 billion, China customs data shows. But analysts […]
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Cramer’s lightning round: I like Cadre Holdings
Cadre Holdings Inc: “It’s a company that makes things, does stuff, sells at a profit, gives you money back. … I’m going to say it’s good. I like it.” Digital Turbine Inc: “I can not understand why this stock continues to go down while the earnings keep going up.” Chevron Corp: “[The Investing Club] did […]
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A new ETF investing in disaster relief launches in time for hurricane season
The Atlantic hurricane season is in full swing, and a new exchange-traded fund that focuses on disaster recovery has launched just in time for it. The first-of-its-kind Procure Disaster Recovery Strategy ETF invests in companies working to reduce risk and motivate sustainable recovery from natural disasters around the world. “Our partners at VettaFi and the […]
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Stock futures slip after the S&P 500’s worst first half since 1970
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 15, 2022. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters U.S. stock futures fell Thursday night after the S&P 500 closed out its worst first-half performance in decades. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 114 points lower, or […]
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Micron warns weakening consumer demand will hurt smartphone sales
Sanjay Mehrota, Micron Technology President & CEO at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on May 24th, 2022. Adam Galica | CNBC Micron Technology, a major vendor of memory chips for PCs and smartphones, said on Thursday that it expects smartphone sales to be meaningfully lower than previously expected for the rest of 2022, citing a reduction […]
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Jim Cramer says investors can hide in these three recession-proof packaged food stocks
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday gave investors three options for packaged food stocks they can seek refuge in, as the stock market continues to seesaw. “With commodity costs coming down big, the food stocks can become recession-proof safe-havens. But you have to be selective, which means sticking with the winners that we know are doing […]
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The crypto collapse shows the Fed’s job is ‘almost complete’ against inflation, Jim Cramer says
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday said that the rapid slide in the cryptocurrency market shows that the Federal Reserve is making progress in its arduous struggle to tamp down inflation. “There is one front in the war on inflation that’s been an outstanding total victory for the Fed, and that’s the battle against financial speculation,” […]
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Internal Facebook memo warns company must be disciplined, prioritize ruthlessly
Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer, Meta, speaking the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on May 25th, 2022. Adam Galica | CNBC Facebook-parent Meta has warned employees to expect a tough second half of the year as the company continues to weather challenges related to its core online advertising business amid a weakening economy. Meta chief product […]
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Big technology stocks like Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft just finished their worst quarter in years
Elon Musk attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/Getty Images) Gotham | Getty Images Investors lowered the valuations of the world’s largest technology companies in the second quarter as central bankers ratcheted up […]
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