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A shareholder resolution calls for a third-party audit of Google’s whistleblower policies. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A year after Alphabet’s board voted against a measure to review its whistleblower protections, one of its shareholders is pushing the measure again in the hope that institutional investors will bolster support for the effort in light of high profile firings at its subsidiary, Google and complaints of illegally spying on employees. Brought by Trillium… Source link

TipRanks Ride the Crypto Boom with These 3 Stocks Some 15% of the American public owns some form of cryptocurrency – and a large part of that group jumped on the bandwagon in the last two years. The digital currencies – Bitcoin is the most famous, but there are scores of others – offer users a distinct set of advantages, based on their blockchain technology. First, the crypto coins are secure – as a digital technology, blockchain is notoriously difficult to break. Second, the coins… Source link

Stocks were mixed Tuesday morning, with investors awaiting more corporate earnings results from major companies and a Federal Reserve monetary policy decision on Wednesday.  The S&P 500 ticked up, extending gains after the blue-chip index rose to an all-time high during Monday’s regular trading day. The Dow slipped, while the Nasdaq gained. Shares of Tesla (TSLA) fell after the company’s first-quarter sales results missed estimates, though earnings and automobile gross margins exceeded… Source link

  This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, April 21, 2021 YOLO trades might be fading, but retail is still around.  The stars of the show in financial markets during the first quarter of 2021 were retail traders.  Retail fueled meme trades, made Roaring Kitty a star, and flummoxed market professionals who insisted this participation would not last. Even though less than two… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Stocks Around $10 With Triple-Digit Upside Potential The S&P 500 rose to another record high on Friday, and at least one strategist believes we’re at the start of a new bull market. Writing from LPL Financial, chief market strategist Ryan Detrick noted several market-historical points that indicate sustained gains are in the offing. Key among his points are the first quarter returns and the breadth of the current stock rally. On returns, Detrick highlights that… Source link

  Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, April 14, 2021 The oldest crypto critique just won’t go away.  Over the last decade, every critique in the book has been thrown at the cryptocurrency space.  But none is more pervasive than dismissing the excitement around these assets by simply saying — “It’s a bubble.” And yet, this is exactly what Bank of America’s latest global fund managers’ survey found most of the… Source link

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo (Corrects to remove inaccurate company descriptor from headline. Also corrects paragraph 3 to say that the company plans to use the funds for further work related to nuclear fusion) (Reuters) – TAE Technologies, a California-based firm building technology to generate power from nuclear fusion, said on… Source link

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo (Corrects to remove inaccurate company descriptor from headline. Also corrects paragraph 3 to say that the company plans to use the funds for further work related to nuclear fusion) (Reuters) – TAE Technologies, a California-based firm building technology to generate power from nuclear fusion, said on… Source link

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo (Corrects to remove inaccurate company descriptor from headline. Also corrects paragraph 3 to say that the company plans to use the funds for further work related to nuclear fusion) (Reuters) – TAE Technologies, a California-based firm building technology to generate power from nuclear fusion, said on… Source link

Bloomberg Massive Cargo Ships Are Outrun by Nimble Fleet in New Speed Race (Bloomberg) — For years, container shipping was a rough business. Margins were minuscule, the risks were high and growth prospects bobbed with the unpredictable tides of global trade. That it’s now generating record profits is one of the great economic surprises of the pandemic.The transformation over the past year also debunks a premise expressed loudly by pundits and politicians in recent years that U.S.-China trade,… Source link