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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

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 Monday, March 22, 2021 There will ‘always’ be a top risk, but some are worse than others “There is always some reason or the other since the start of this bull market to complain/worry about,” Bank of America strategists led by Ajay Kapur wrote last week (emphasis ours). “That’s why bull markets climb a wall of worry.” Kapur and his team were… Source link

(Photo: Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) The everything rally of the last several months may be getting a lift from an unexpected source: federal stimulus money. A new Yahoo Finance–Harris poll finds that 9% of people expecting to get a $1,400 stimulus check plan to invest some of the money in traditional assets such as stocks, while 7% plan to use the money to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. Young investors are even more willing to gamble. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 19% plan… Source link

Early last week, Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary Google made an announcement that stunned the digital advertising world. The company said that it was planning to eliminate ad-tracking cookies (something that’s been in the works for more than a year), but it then went even further. In a blog post on Google’s website, product management head David Temkin said, “Today, we’re making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out,… Source link

TipRanks The Bottom Is in for These 3 Stocks? Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Never say that one person makes no difference. This past Thursday, stocks tumbled, bonds surged, and investors started taking inflationary risks seriously – all because one guy said what he thinks. Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, held a press conference at which he gave both the good and the bad. He stated, again, his belief that the COVID vaccination program will allow a full reopening of the economy, and that… Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell added more fuel to the fire for investors already spooked by the spectre of higher inflation and rising interest rates in the bond market. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal Jobs Summit, Powell said he expects the economic reopening to cause some inflation later this year, but that it would be temporary, and it was not enough to make the central bank hike interest rates. That was little consolation to investors, who pushed the Nasdaq (^IXIC) and S&P 500… Source link

TipRanks 2 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With 7% Dividend Yield You can get whiplash, trying to follow the market fluctuations these days. Volatility rules for now, as investors are pulling out of Big Tech – a move that is pushing the general markets down. The bearish sentiment comes as new COVID case numbers are falling, along with the weekly unemployment claims. Both are positive news bites for the economy, and will help to justify increased economic opening. At the same time, a Congressional… Source link