Day: November 23, 2024
Trump expected to pick Brooke Rollins to be Agriculture secretary, WSJ reports
A sign of United States Department of Agriculture is seen on USDA building in Washington D.C., United States on June 21, 2023. The United States Department of Agriculture has approved selling cell-cultured chicken. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Celal Gunes | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected […]
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Bitcoin vs. gold: State Street worries the crypto rally’s allure is distracting precious metal investors
The bitcoin rally is generating a false sense of security among investors, according to the strategist behind the so-called granddaddy of gold exchange-traded funds. State Street Global Advisors’ George Milling-Stanley warns cryptocurrency plays don’t offer the stability of gold. “Bitcoin, pure and simple, it’s a return play, and I think that people have been jumping […]
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How tech bros bought ‘America’s most pro-crypto Congress ever’
Bernie Moreno, Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, attends a campaign event in Holland, Ohio, on Saturday, October 26, 2024. Moreno is running against Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Prior to announcing his Senate candidacy in April 2023, Bernie Moreno was a political no name. A former […]
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Microsoft is finally testing its Recall photographic memory search feature. It’s not perfect
Microsoft’s Recall feature is available for testing for people with Copilot+ PCs containing Qualcomm Snapdragon chips. Jordan Novet | CNBC Microsoft on Friday started letting people test Recall, its so-called photographic memory search feature for the latest Copilot+ PCs. It doesn’t work perfectly, based on an initial evaluation. It’s also a long time coming. Microsoft first […]
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Welcome to the mullet market: Steady benchmarks in the front, crypto party in the back
This market is starting to summon the lighthearted take on a mullet haircut: business in the front, party in the back. The headline benchmark stock indexes have been all business, remaining calmly firm in an orderly uptrend, barely laying an errant step for weeks. After a post-election pop that lasted a few days and took […]
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Goldman Sachs is bullish on these stocks heading into December and the new year
Goldman Sachs highlighted a slate of stocks that are worth snapping up as December approaches. The firm sees major upside ahead for AT & T, GE Aerospace, Pinterest and Monster Beverage . CNBC combed through Goldman research to find buy-rated names the firm says are must owns heading into the end of the year. GE […]
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Activist Ananym has a list of suggestions for Henry Schein. How the firm can help improve profits
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Company: Henry Schein (HSIC) Business: Henry Schein is a solutions company for health care. It operates through two segments: health care distribution, and technology and value-added services. The health care distribution segment distributes an array of offerings, including consumable products, small equipment, laboratory products, large […]
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Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities
An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Sunday, July 28, 2024. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images The power needs of artificial intelligence and cloud computing are growing so large that individual data center campuses could soon use more electricity than some cities, and even entire U.S. states, according to […]
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Nutritionist from Japan: The food I love eating every day—and that robust 90-year-olds in my life swear by
The oceans in and around Japan are believed to contain roughly 1,500 kinds of seaweed, which have long been a staple of Japanese cuisine. Depending on the region and the climate, you can find many different tastes and textures. I’m a nutritionist from Nara, Japan, and seaweed is one of the most nostalgic foods for […]
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Wealthy countries’ $300 billion offer seeks to end COP29 stalemate
People walk past the logotype at the venue for the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 11, 2024. Alexander Nemenov | Afp | Getty Images The European Union, U.S. and other wealthy countries at the COP29 summit have agreed to raise their offer to $300 billion per year by 2035 […]
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