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From ‘Cockroach Award’ to the Big Board: Hinge Health’s unlikely path to IPO
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From ‘Cockroach Award’ to the Big Board: Hinge Health’s unlikely path to IPO

Hinge Health co-founders Gabriel Mecklenburg (left) and Daniel Perez (right). Courtesy of Hinge Health At digital physical therapy startup Hinge Health, CEO Daniel Perez used to recognize hard-working employees with the “Cockroach Award,” a distinction that brought with it a “cockroach squad” t-shirt and a cash payout. References to the insect were abundant at the […]

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Block plunges 20% as Cash App miss triggers downgrades
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Block plunges 20% as Cash App miss triggers downgrades

Block shares were on track for their second-worst day Friday, plunging more than 20% as investors digested a brutal quarterly report and a wave of analyst downgrades centered on one issue: Cash App. The first-quarter earnings miss rattled Wall Street, prompting multiple firms — including Wells Fargo, Seaport, BMO, and Benchmark — to downgrade the […]

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52-year-old quit his job, bought a failing snack company for 0,000—he just sold it for 0 million
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52-year-old quit his job, bought a failing snack company for $250,000—he just sold it for $750 million

Charles Coristine used to revel in working at Morgan Stanley. He loved the pace, even waking up in the middle of the night to trade in the Tokyo and London stock markets. In 2011, after nearly two decades on Wall Street, Coristine burned out. He tried multiple remedies: switching to a vegetarian diet, meditating, enrolling […]

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Alphabet jumps 3% as search, advertising units show resilient growth
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Alphabet jumps 3% as search, advertising units show resilient growth

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet‘s stock gained 3% Friday after signaling strong growth in its search and advertising businesses amid a competitive artificial intelligence environment and uncertain macro backdrop. “GOOGL’s pace of GenAI […]

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Wall Street trading desks are feasting on the volatility from Trump’s global upheaval
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Wall Street trading desks are feasting on the volatility from Trump’s global upheaval

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 14, 2025.  Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Wall Street banks just posted their biggest-ever haul from stock trading as the opening months of President Donald Trump’s tenure led to upheavals […]

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Citigroup is set to report first-quarter earnings – here’s what the Street expects
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Citigroup is set to report first-quarter earnings – here’s what the Street expects

Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup, attends a hearing on Annual Oversight of Wall Street Firms before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Dec. 6, 2023.  Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Citigroup is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings before the opening bell […]

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Bank of America earnings are out – Here are the numbers
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Bank of America earnings are out – Here are the numbers

Brian Moynihan, chief executive officer of Bank of America Corp., during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.  Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bank of America reported first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Tuesday. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street analysts surveyed by […]

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CNBC Daily Open: Consumers are worried over the economy. The White House insists it’ll be fine
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CNBC Daily Open: Consumers are worried over the economy. The White House insists it’ll be fine

People shop at a grocery store in Manhattan on April 01, 2025, in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images A day without major tariff developments from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is, for markets, a day of cautious optimism (or at least what passes as “optimism” in such unusual times). There was breathing […]

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CNBC Daily Open: Trump exempting tech from tariffs suggests the importance of consumers
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CNBC Daily Open: Trump exempting tech from tariffs suggests the importance of consumers

The Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images On late Friday, the Trump administration welcomed the weekend in the best way: by announcing that electronics — such as smartphones, computers and semiconductors — will be temporarily exempted from his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs, […]

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Goldman Sachs is about to report first-quarter earnings
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Goldman Sachs is about to report first-quarter earnings

David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images Goldman Sachs is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Monday.   Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings: $12.35 per share, according […]

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