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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Nvidia, Synaptics, Cloudflare, Topgolf Callaway Brands and more
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Synaptics — The semiconductor company climbed 5.9% after announcing a partnership with Google on Edge AI. Through the collaboration, Google’s machine learning core will be integrated on Synaptics’ Astra hardware. Nvidia — Shares of the chip maker popped 1.7%, marking a positive start to the new […]
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Alibaba slashes prices on large language models by up to 85% as China AI rivalry heats up
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2023. Aly Song | Reuters Alibaba is cutting prices on its large language models by up to 85%, the Chinese tech giant announced Tuesday. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce firm’s cloud computing division, Alibaba Cloud, said in a WeChat post that it’s offering the price cuts on its […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Hershey, Nvidia, Alibaba, Omnicom and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Hershey , Mondelez International — Hershey shares jumped roughly 13% after Bloomberg News reported that Cadbury and Oreo maker Mondelez is again trying to buy the chocolate company. News of the attempted takeover put Hershey shares on pace for their best day since June 2016, when Hershey […]
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Philippe Laffont’s Coatue makes big bets on China and GLP-1 drugmakers in latest quarter
Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management took several new stakes in major Chinese e-commerce companies and a couple of anti-obesity focused drugmakers in the third quarter, according to the latest 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Laffont, one of the “Tiger Cub” fund managers who worked under the late Julian Robertson at Tiger Management, […]
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‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry reshuffles portfolio, adds hedges on China holdings
Michael Burry, best known for calling the subprime mortgage crisis, made a slew of changes in his portfolio last quarter, including what appears to be a hedge on his sizable bet on Chinese internet stocks. Burry, who now manages hedge fund Scion Asset Management, boosted his stakes in a few Chinese internet companies’ ADRs, according to […]
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China’s biggest shopping event of the year exceeds low expectations
Staff sort express deliveries at China Post’s Zaozhuang branch in east China’s Shandong province on November 10, 2024 Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s Singles’ Day shopping festival saw consumers spend more than expected in what has otherwise been a tepid retail environment, consulting executives told CNBC. The country’s version of Black […]
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China’s Singles Day shopping festival is more than halfway over. Here’s how consumers are spending
Employees package and sort express parcels at an e-commerce company on Nov. 1, 2024, around the Double 11 Shopping Festival in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Early indicators of China’s biggest shopping event of the year reveal a pickup in select categories amid expectations of […]
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Alibaba and more: Fund manager gets bullish on 3 China tech stocks — expecting one to double
Shares of e-commerce giants in China look attractive as Beijing attempts to stimulate domestic consumption, according to investor Jason Hsu. Hsu, founder and chairman of Rayliant Global Advisors, told CNBC’s Pro Talks that Alibaba , JD.com , and Pinduoduo are among his top picks. He also revealed a more cautious stance toward Baidu over company […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Boeing, Kenvue, Humana, Warby Parker and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Kenvue – The consumer health company jumped more than 8% after the Wall Street Journal said activist investor Starboard Value has taken a stake in the Johnson & Johnson spinoff . Boeing – Shares added 3.3% after the aircraft maker and its machinists’ union reached a […]
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Hyper-local vs. hyper-focused: Two China ETFs go on different paths
Two exchange-traded funds are looking for profits in China with two different strategies. While the Rayliant Quantamental China Equity ETF dives into specific regions, the newly launched Roundhill China Dragons ETF buys the country’s biggest stocks. “[It’s] focused just on nine companies, and these companies are the companies that we identified as having similar characteristics […]
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