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These 10 U.S. real estate markets are cooling the fastest: Here’s what to know if you’re a prospective buyer
David Ryder | Getty Images After staggering growth during the pandemic, the U.S. housing market is starting to cool — and it’s happening fastest along the West Coast. The quickest-cooling real estate market is San Jose, California, according to a new Redfin analysis, which ranked U.S. metropolitan markets based on median sales prices, year-over-year inventory […]
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Here are four past cases Twitter and Elon Musk’s lawyers will be examining as they head to court
SpaceX founder Elon Musk reacts at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 2, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters After billionaire Elon Musk said […]
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Amazon launches cancer vaccine clinical trial in partnership with Fred Hutchinson
Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.Com Inc., during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is developing cancer vaccines in collaboration with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and it recently launched an FDA-approved clinical trial. Amazon and Fred Hutchinson are […]
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These stocks have earnings momentum going into earnings season
As investors ready themselves for what’s expected to be a rough earnings season, CNBC Pro found stocks that are actually seeing their estimates raised by analysts going into results. Many investors are expecting second-quarter earnings reports to fall broadly short of expectations, as rising inflation and a hawkish Federal Reserve continue to weigh on corporate […]
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Delivery startup Gopuff cuts 10% of its global workforce and closes 76 U.S. warehouses
A bag of groceries with the logo of American on-demand delivery start-up Gopuff. Gopuff Delivery startup Gopuff is cutting 10% of its global workforce and closing 76 U.S. warehouses, according to a letter to investors. The layoffs impact about 1,500 employees who will be notified throughout Tuesday, the letter said. The company is also closing […]
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Here are the nominees for the major Emmy categories — ‘Succession’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ lead the field
Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, at his daughter’s wedding reception on season 1 of HBO’s Succession. Colin Hutton | HBO Can the Roy family win yet another high-stakes competition with brutal rivals? HBO’s lacerating drama “Succession” on Tuesday earned 25 nominations for the 74th annual Emmy Awards, the most of any series. It’s squaring off […]
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Covid hospitalizations have doubled since May as omicron BA.5 sweeps U.S., but deaths remain low
People hospitalized with Covid-19 have doubled since early May as the even more transmissible omicron BA.5 subvariant has caused another wave of infection across the country, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. But deaths from Covid still remain relatively low given the number of infections right now, the officials said. Dr. Ashish Jha, who coordinates the […]
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Goldman Sachs hires Alphabet tech incubator CEO Jared Cohen for new innovation group
Jared Cohen Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has hired another senior executive from the technology sector. The investment bank is adding Alphabet’s Jared Cohen, a protege of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and founder of Jigsaw, an incubator at the tech giant, to help start a new innovation group, Solomon said […]
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Op-ed: The toughest challenges for cryptocurrency lie ahead, not in the rear-view mirror
More than a third of millennials and half of Generation Z would be happy to receive 50% of their salary in cryptocurrencies, revealed a study. Srdjanpav | E+ | Getty Images With more than $1 trillion in cryptocurrency value wiped out since the 2021 high-water mark, many investors may be tempted to enter the cryptocurrency […]
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ServiceNow sinks after CEO warns global tech firms won’t be able to outrun strong dollar
The strong U.S. dollar is a drag against technology brands in an environment already battered by fierce macro headwinds, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott told CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “You’re at 41-year high inflation. The dollar right now is the highest it’s been in over two decades. We have interest rates rising. People worried about security. You’ve […]
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