Month: January 2025
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will attend Trump inauguration, NBC reports
Elon Musk embraces Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Oct. 5, 2024. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, NBC News reported on Tuesday. They will be seated on the platform near […]
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Morgan Stanley notes another threat to the market besides rates and gives stocks that are immune
With 2025 having just begun, the U.S. dollar has already emerged as the topic du jour for the new year. The greenback has strengthened in value over the last few months, spurred by President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed economic tariffs. Since the November election, the U.S. dollar index — which measures the U.S. currency against a […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Eli Lilly, Applied Digital, Boeing and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Eli Lilly – The drugmaker’s shares tumbled more than 7% after the firm said demand for its weight loss and diabetes drugs would not meet its lofty expectations . Eli Lilly said it now expects full-year 2024 revenue of about $45 billion, lower than the $45.4 […]
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OpenAI adds BlackRock exec Adebayo Ogunlesi to board of directors
Bayo Ogunlesi, Chairman, Global Infrastructure Partners listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during a strategic and policy discussion with CEOs in the State Department Library in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. Pool | Getty Images OpenAI said Tuesday that Adebayo Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock, […]
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Meta targeting lowest-performing employees in latest round of layoffs
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing workers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday. Bloomberg was first to report the […]
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Boeing delivered 30 airplanes in December, but gap with Airbus widened in 2024
Boeing 737 Max planes sit at the airport in Renton, Washington. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Boeing handed over 348 airplanes in 2024, about a third fewer than it did a year earlier as the aerospace giant struggled with a crisis after a midair door panel blowout a year ago and a machinist strike in the […]
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Eli Lilly shares drop as drugmaker cuts revenue guidance on weight loss drug demand
The Eli Lilly & Co. logo at the company’s Digital Health Innovation Hub facility in Singapore, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty Images Eli Lilly cut its revenue guidance on Tuesday as it said demand for its weight loss and diabetes drugs would not meet its lofty expectations. The drugmaker’s […]
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Biden opens federal land for AI data centers, sets rules for developers
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the State Department in Washington, U.S. Jan. 13, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters President Joe Biden issued an executive order Thursday aimed at speeding domestic construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure and shoring up the national security risk involved in the technology. The move empowers the U.S. Department […]
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CFPB sues Capital One, alleges it misled consumers on savings rates
Capital One headquarters in McLean, Virginia on February 20, 2024. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Tuesday that it was suing Capital One for misleading consumers about their savings account interest rates and “cheating” them out of more than $2 billion in interest. The agency said in a […]
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Bitcoin swings back above $97,000, in stunning reversal, as light inflation data stokes risk appetite
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin bounced on Tuesday, rising with other risk assets as traders digested a light inflation reading. On Tuesday the price of the flagship cryptocurrency rose 4.5% to $97,044.35, according to Coin Metrics, after sliding below the $90,000 support level to start the week. The broader crypto market, as […]
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