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5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Stock futures are down to start the week People walk along Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange on March 08, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images U.S. stock futures were slightly […]
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Elon Musk suggests people who subscribe to Twitter Blue should be able to pay with dogecoin
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, shown here in March, proposed a series of changes to Twitter’s subscription service, including price changes and the option to pay in dogecoin. Patrick Pleul | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk is tweeting about Twitter again. This time, he’s come up with a slew of suggestions for Twitter Blue, the […]
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Elon Musk says humans could eventually download their brains into robots — and Grimes thinks Jeff Bezos would do it
Elon Musk says a lot of seemingly fantastical things. For example: The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO seems to believe that humans will eventually be able to live forever, by downloading their brains into robots. “I think it is possible,” Musk, 50, recently told Insider. “Yes, we could download the things that we believe make […]
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Elon Musk says Tesla may have to get into the lithium business because costs are so ‘insane’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured as he attends the start of the production at Tesla’s “Gigafactory” on March 22, 2022 in Gruenheide, southeast of Berlin. Patrick Pleul | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk tweeted Tesla may get into the lithium mining and refining business directly and at scale because the cost of the […]
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Elon Musk says production of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot could start next year
The Tesla Bot is on display at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing facility during the “Cyber Rodeo” grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas. Suzanne Cordeiro | AFP | Getty Images Tesla may start production of a humanoid robot known as Optimus as early as next year, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. […]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk hosts ‘Cyber Rodeo’ party to open Austin factory
On Thursday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke at a grand opening event for the electric vehicle maker’s new $1.1 billion factory near the Austin airport in Texas. At the event, he spoke about how massive the new factory is, and teased products that are still in development, including the Cybertruck, and a robotaxi that […]
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‘It’s meaningless’ — large Tesla shareholder Ron Baron reacts to Elon Musk joining Twitter’s board
Ron Baron, the CEO of Baron Capital and one of Tesla’s largest shareholders, said that Elon Musk’s 9.2% stake in Twitter, and his accompanying board seat, is not significant. “I think it’s meaningless,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday. “It’s a tiny investment. $3 billion for a man who is worth $300 billion. He has […]
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Army Corps of Engineers withdraws SpaceX application to expand Starship facilities in Texas
Starship prototype 20 stacked on top of Super Heavy booster 4 at the company’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX The US Army Corps of Engineers has withdrawn SpaceX’s application to expand launch facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, after the company failed to provide environmental information the agency requested, according to documents obtained by CNBC. […]
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After his Virgin Galactic spaceflight, Richard Branson now hopes to fly with Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson prepares to spray champagne after flying with a crew in Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane VSS Unity to the edge of space at Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, U.S., July 11, 2021. Joe Skipper | Reuters COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – Sir Richard Branson, less than a year after […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: JetBlue, Eli Lilly, Occidental Petroleum and more
A JetBlue passenger jet (Embraer 190) taxis at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Wednesday. JetBlue — Shares of JetBlue fell another 7.6% on Wednesday, as investors weighed the airline’s $3.6 billion cash takeover offer to take […]
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