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Google, Meta and Amazon will benefit from the Ukraine war, ad guru Martin Sorrell says
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Google, Meta and Amazon will benefit from the Ukraine war, ad guru Martin Sorrell says

Martin Sorrell, founder and chairman of media firm S4 Capital, believes the war in Ukraine has the potential to benefit three of America’s biggest tech firms. “I’m very bullish on the tech giants … because the war will have an impact on them,” Sorrell told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos Monday. He […]

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Time to sell or buy the dip? Here’s how pros suggest trading Wall Street sell-off
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Time to sell or buy the dip? Here’s how pros suggest trading Wall Street sell-off

With the recent carnage on Wall Street, CNBC Pro asks strategists and investors what’s next for stocks and where they see pockets of opportunity in the weeks ahead. U.S. stocks briefly fell into bear market on Friday, as the broad-based S & P 500 fell as much as 20.9% from its all-time high in January […]

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Biden tops list of Americans banned from traveling to Russia, but Trump is not on it
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Biden tops list of Americans banned from traveling to Russia, but Trump is not on it

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint news conference after their meeting in Helsinki, July 16, 2018.  Grigory Dukor | Reuters President Joe Biden made Russia’s “blacklist” but former President Donald Trump didn’t. Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry on Saturday released an updated list of nearly 1,000 Americans permanently barred from […]

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Tech stocks are mired in their longest weekly losing streak since dot-com bust
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Tech stocks are mired in their longest weekly losing streak since dot-com bust

Traders on the NYSE, May 20, 2022. Source: NYSE Tech companies haven’t seen a selloff like since 2001 and the bursting of the dot-com bubble. The Nasdaq declined 3.8% this week, falling for a seventh straight week. It’s the longest losing streak for the tech-heavy index in 21 years. Inflation, rising interest rates, the war […]

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Strategists reveal how they’re trading tech stocks — and the same names keep coming up
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Strategists reveal how they’re trading tech stocks — and the same names keep coming up

Investors and strategists have revealed how they’re playing the beaten-down tech sector, naming several stock opportunities in a market they say could be nearing the bottom. Lee Baker, owner and president at Apex Financial Services, described Apple and Microsoft as “good solid companies” for investors to consider right now. Speaking to CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe […]

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Investing Club: Here’s how much each company in our portfolio is exposed to China
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Investing Club: Here’s how much each company in our portfolio is exposed to China

Shanghai and Beijing have retained, if not tightened, many Covid-related restrictions on business and travel. In this picture, workers disinfect a residential community on May 11, 2022, in Beijing, China. Beijing Youth Daily | Visual China Group | Getty Images Source

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Tesla whale calls for  billion stock buyback after share price craters
Technology

Tesla whale calls for $15 billion stock buyback after share price craters

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter and manage multiple companies at the same time. James Glover II | Reuters Billionaire Leo Koguan, who claims to be the third largest individual shareholder of Tesla stock, is calling on the carmaker to announce a $15 billion stock buyback as the company’s share price continues […]

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Strategist says U.S. stocks are undervalued right now — and names his top picks to buy the dip
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Strategist says U.S. stocks are undervalued right now — and names his top picks to buy the dip

Morningstar’ s David Sekera thinks the market sell-off is looking overdone — and reveals the tech stocks he thinks are attractive right now, as well as his picks to ride the return of consumer spending. After years of beating the market, tech stocks have been slammed this year as expectations of aggressive tightening by the […]

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Facebook’s IPO 10 years later — new name, same CEO and a familiar problem
Technology

Facebook’s IPO 10 years later — new name, same CEO and a familiar problem

A decade ago, Facebook told the public markets that it was pouring money into smartphone apps because mobile usage was key to the company’s growth, even though it did “not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue” at the time. That was in the prospectus for its Nasdaq debut, which took place ten years ago Wednesday […]

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Musk met Twitter execs for 3 days before making a bid, unclear if they discussed bots
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Musk met Twitter execs for 3 days before making a bid, unclear if they discussed bots

Elon Musk has said he won’t move forward with his $44 billion Twitter acquisition until he has more details about fake accounts on the platform, but he met with the company’s top brass for three days to discuss its business before he publicly announced his bid, according to a new securities filing. The filing with […]

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