Month: February 2025
This country is the No. 1 solo travel destination for 2025—it’s not the United States
Solo travel continues to trend. A new report from Kensington, a private guided luxury travel service, ranked the top countries to for a solo trip in 2025. For this ranking, Kensington took into account findings from “affluent” travelers based on 2024 data and two external surveys conducted with Opinium Research and Dig Insight. “Solo travelers […]
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This ETF provider thinks it’s time to rethink investing in China
ETF Edge This ETF provider thinks it’s time to rethink investing in China Published Sat, Feb 22 202511:00 AM EST Krysta Escobar WATCH LIVE Source
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Buffett says Berkshire will continue to increase investment in Japan trading houses
Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, photographed during a 2011 trip to Japan. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway is committed to its Japanese investments for the long term and has reached an agreement with the companies to own beyond the initial 10% ceiling, Warren Buffett said in his […]
Read More![Mets’ $765 million superstar Juan Soto gifted his teammate a $92,000 car: ‘I just appreciate [him]’](https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/108105751-1740157720591-gettyimages-2200651821-rs108080_yuh3lhen.jpeg?v=1740157759&w=1920&h=1080 "Mets’ $765 million superstar Juan Soto gifted his teammate a $92,000 car: ‘I just appreciate [him]’")
Mets’ $765 million superstar Juan Soto gifted his teammate a $92,000 car: ‘I just appreciate [him]’
Brett Baty’s choice to hold onto his high school ride just paid off big time. The New York Mets third baseman has been driving the same 2016 Toyota 4Runner since he was a teenager, holding onto it despite having earned nearly $5 million so far in his career. But that changed this week after the […]
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Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock, but doesn’t explain why in annual letter
Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024. David A. Grogen | CNBC The mystery over Warren Buffett’s surprisingly defensive stance deepened over the weekend. The 94-year-old CEO of Berkshire Hathaway sold more stocks in the latest quarter and grew […]
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Berkshire operating earnings surge 71% in fourth quarter, cash hoard balloons to record $334 billion
Key Points The Warren Buffett-led conglomerate said its operating profit — which encompasses earnings from the company’s wholly owned businesses — skyrocketed to $14.527 billion during the final three months of 2024. That was led by by a whopping 302% jump in insurance underwriting from the year-earlier period to $3.409 billion. Source
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Resilient stock market finally succumbs to pressure from economic worries and Trump policy flux
A new movie due out next month called “Novocaine” is about a guy unable to feel pain. This is a kind of superpower, right up to the point where it becomes a keen danger, leaving him insensitive to damaging injury. The stock market, similarly, was for weeks calm and unflinching against potential sources of hurt, […]
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Walmart’s worst week since 2022: Retailer’s former U.S. CEO Bill Simon thinks Wall Street is getting earnings, tariff risks wrong
Fast Money Walmart’s worst week since 2022: Retailer’s former U.S. CEO Bill Simon thinks Wall Street is getting earnings, tariff risks wrong Published Sat, Feb 22 20259:00 AM EST Stephanie Landsman@stephlandsman WATCH LIVE Source
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Fintechs like Block and PayPal are battling like never before to be your all-in-one online bank
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jack Dorsey’s Block got started as Square, offering small businesses a simple way to accept payments via smartphone. Affirm began as an online lender, giving consumers […]
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StockStory: A volatile tech stock worth owning for the long-term because of its dominance of a niche area
This is one of the stock profiles of StockStory , a fintech investing company seeking to identify long-term ideas that beat the market using an AI-driven approach. Previously StockStory covered Cloudflare (NET) and Howmet Aerospace (HWM) . As the world digitizes, buying advertising inventory is moving from power lunches to programmatic platforms that leverage data […]
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