Year: 2022
Retail investors just posted the longest streak of buying bank stocks since 2008, BofA says
Analysts cited the “surprising positive flow signal” as support for a broader thesis that investors should plow funds into banks and other financial players. Source
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Maverick Ventures’ Ambar Bhattacharyya on the future of health care
Ambar Bhattacharyya, managing director at Maverick Ventures Maverick Ventures Ambar Bhattacharyya is managing director at Maverick Ventures, a $400 million venture capital fund based in San Francisco which invests in health start-ups. His health-care portfolio firms include six IPOs and four unicorns (start-ups valued at $1 billion or more). Bhattacharyya — who currently sits on […]
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Zelenskyy calls for more pressure on Moscow as Ukraine says 15,000 Russian troops have been killed
‘It is time to end this absurd war,’ UN secretary-general says Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres speaks to press about war in Ukraine at the Security Council Stakeout of UN headquarters in New York City, United States on March 14, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres […]
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Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson rejects GOP attack on her record: ‘Nothing could be further from the truth’
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies on her nomination to become an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 22, 2022. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson in a Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday forcefully defended […]
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Watch live: Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson answers questions in Senate confirmation hearings
[The stream is slated to start at 9 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson answered senators’ questions Tuesday during the second day of her confirmation hearings. Early in the hearing, she rejected Republican allegations that she was too […]
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Putin critic Alexei Navalny sentenced to 9 years in prison by Russian court
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link during the verdict in his embezzlement and contempt of court trial at the IK-2 prison colony in the town of Pokrov in Vladimir Region on March 22, 2022. – A Russian court on March 22 sentenced jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny […]
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Britain’s Royal Mint to build plant that will extract gold from electronic waste
Smith Collection/Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s Royal Mint plans to build a facility that will extract gold from electronic waste, with the plant set to be fully up and running in 2023. In a statement Monday, the government-owned company which manufactures precious metal products and coins said it would use […]
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Alphabet’s quantum tech group Sandbox spins off into an independent company
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Sandbox, Alphabet’s quantum technology group, is spinning off into an independent company, it announced Tuesday. Alphabet has been relatively quiet about Sandbox, which was launched in […]
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European Union unlikely to impose an oil embargo on Russia, sources say
A general view of oil tanks in the Transneft-Kozmino Port near the far eastern town of Nakhodka, Russia. Yuri Maltsev | Reuters The European Union is unlikely to impose an immediate oil embargo on Russia over its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, according to two CNBC sources with knowledge of the discussions. The U.S. decided to […]
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Nike trimmed sales declines in this key region, and analysts see it as a bullish sign
Wall Street analysts paid close attention to Nike’s geographic sales breakdown in the company’s third-quarter report. Source
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