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Investment banks trumpet fresh ideas in new second-half stock trades
Finance

Investment banks trumpet fresh ideas in new second-half stock trades

Major investment banks expect the stock market’s volatility to continue in the second half of 2022. A brutal market sell-off saw the S & P 500 suffer its worst first half since 1970 as the Nasdaq Composite plummeted deep into a bear market. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve kickstarted an aggressive rate hiking cycle to curb […]

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Wealthy customers will help Apple resist the effects of inflation
Technology

Wealthy customers will help Apple resist the effects of inflation

An employee arranges Apple iPhones as customer shop at an Apple store. Mike Segar | Reuters The last time Apple faced an inflationary environment like this, it had been a public company for less than a year and its best-selling product was the Apple II home computer. In May, the annual inflation rate in the […]

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Big technology stocks like Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft just finished their worst quarter in years
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Big technology stocks like Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft just finished their worst quarter in years

Elon Musk attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/Getty Images) Gotham | Getty Images Investors lowered the valuations of the world’s largest technology companies in the second quarter as central bankers ratcheted up […]

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Comeback candidates: These S&P 500 stocks are Wall Street’s favorite bets for the second half of 2022
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Comeback candidates: These S&P 500 stocks are Wall Street’s favorite bets for the second half of 2022

The S & P 500 is wrapping up its worst first half in generations, but Wall Street believes some stocks could still post a comeback in the latter part of 2022. Stocks have had a volatile start to the year, as a combination of rising inflation and a hawkish Federal Reserve spurred investors to drop […]

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Sony looks beyond the PlayStation 5 with its own brand of PC gaming gear
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Sony looks beyond the PlayStation 5 with its own brand of PC gaming gear

Sony’s new PC gear will help it expand its reach in gaming beyond PlayStation. Sony Sony is launching its own range of gaming-focused computer monitors and headsets, hoping to tap into the lucrative high-end PC gaming market as it looks beyond its main PlayStation console brand. Called Inzone, Sony’s PC gaming lineup features two monitors. […]

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AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started
Business

AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started

Cloud computing is in its beginning stages and will only continue to grow, Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday. “It’s possible that AWS could become the largest business at Amazon. Now, Amazon has other large and great businesses, and so it could take a while for us to get […]

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From milligrams to gigatons: Start-up that sucks carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is building a big new plant in Iceland
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From milligrams to gigatons: Start-up that sucks carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is building a big new plant in Iceland

Christoph Gebald (left) and Jan Wurzbacher, co-founders of Climeworks. Photo courtesy Climeworks Carbon dioxide removal start-up Climeworks announced on Tuesday it is building a second commercial sized plant in Iceland. When fully operational in 18 to 24 months time, the plant will capture and store 36,000 metric tons per year of carbon dioxide. That’s a […]

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Snoop Dogg on the current crypto winter and future of NFTs: ‘Every great industry has a downfall’
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Snoop Dogg on the current crypto winter and future of NFTs: ‘Every great industry has a downfall’

Perhaps the most prominent celebrity figure in the Web3 zeitgeist is Snoop Dogg, but for Snoop being an early adopter is nothing new. In 2014, the rap icon was part of a $50 million investment into Reddit, which valued the company at around $500 million at the time. Today, the platform is worth $15 billion, […]

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Cathie Wood: NFTs, DeFi, digital wallets will become important, huge opportunities
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Cathie Wood: NFTs, DeFi, digital wallets will become important, huge opportunities

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on May 2, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood said Tuesday that digital property rights related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) that […]

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Hackers can bring ships and planes to a grinding halt. And it could become much more common
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Hackers can bring ships and planes to a grinding halt. And it could become much more common

Container cargo ships sit off shore from the Long Beach/Los Angeles port complex in Long Beach, CA, on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. Jeff Gritchen | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Armed with little more than a computer, hackers are increasingly setting their sights on some of the biggest things that humans can build. Vast container […]

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