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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Who Got Rich And Poor This Week: AI Optimism Boosted Google Founders, Nvidia CEO, While GitLab Tumble Knocks …  Forbes 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, November 21, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Brian Sozzi, an editor-at-large and anchor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn. Read this and more market news on the go with Yahoo Finance App. There’s optimism in the air, based on some early Black Friday projections. Mastercard SpendingPulse sees Black Friday… Source link

The new year has not been kind to cryptocurrencies, which rose on Wednesday despite about a week of selling that briefly drove Bitcoin below $40,000. A jittery market has begun 2022 on a sour note, with a suddenly hawkish Federal Reserve and the Omicron wave of COVID-19 infections making investors risk-averse. Meanwhile, Bitcoin set a new low at $39,893.62 — having swooned by more than 40% since its November peak. Bitcoin has shed over 8% at its weakest levels this week, while smaller tokens… Source link

There is “renewed optimism” that All-NBA guard Kyrie Irving could rejoin the Brooklyn Nets in some capacity at some point this season, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Whatever that means. Either Kyrie Irving, the Nets organization or the entire city of New York will have to budge for the 29-year-old seven-time All-Star to play for a team that would be a heavy favorite to win a championship with him on it. Irving has refused to cooperate with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for Source link

The hot demand for investment securities linked to bitcoin does not appear to be moving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s stance toward other products more directly linked to the cryptocurrency. SEC Chair Gary Gensler said he still has concerns about investor protection in the $2.5 trillion market for crypto assets. “Investors aren’t protected the way they are, whether they go into the stock or bonds markets that we’ve overseen so long,” said Gensler at Yahoo Finance’s… Source link

Stock futures fell Monday morning to give back some gains after the S&P 500’s best week since July, with investors’ concerns over elevated inflation offsetting hopes that more companies will follow the lead of the big banks last week and post strong quarterly earnings results.  Contracts on the Dow dropped about 100 points, or 0.3%, with about two hours until the opening bell. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also headed for lower opens. The moves tracked a drop in overseas equities after China… Source link

(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click LIVE/ or type LIVE/ in a news window.) * Technology stocks rally * Big banks rise as profits beat forecasts * UnitedHealth jumps on strong results * Indexes up: Dow 1.6%, S&P 500 1.7%, Nasdaq 1.8% (New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments adds dateline, changes byline) By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters) – U.S. stocks surged on Thursday as companies including Bank of America and UnitedHealth… Source link

Google-parent Alphabet GOOGL recently reported first-quarter 2021 results, with earnings and revenues topping estimates and increasing on a year-over-year basis. Notably, Alphabet’s share price has surged about 3% since posting the impressive earnings results on Apr 27. Q1 Earnings at a Glance Earnings per share were $26.29, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 68% and increasing 166.4% year over year. Revenues totaled $55.31 billion, rising 34.4% year over year (32% at constant… Source link

Bloomberg As Sanjeev Gupta Rose From Trader to Tycoon, Several Banks Backed Away (Bloomberg) — British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s companies seemed to be prospering until his main lender, Greensill Capital, imploded last month. But long before Greensill collapsed, several banks had cut off the commodity trading business of Gupta’s Liberty House Group.Four banks stopped working with Gupta’s commodity trading business, starting in 2016, after they became concerned about what they… Source link

When Joe Biden took office, he bet voters would judge his presidency on one thing and one thing only: how well he handled the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. Now, with vaccination accelerating, optimism rising and another round of relief checks arriving in the mail, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that a clear and growing majority of Americans approve of Biden’s policies and leadership, providing the president with momentum that could bolster his next major legislative push… Source link