Shoppers walk in front of a Walmart store in San Leandro, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images As earnings season draws to a finale, investors’ eyes are focused on how the second half of 2021 will look. Be it a contagious new Covid-19 variant causing lockdowns,
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Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, introduces a new lunar landing module called Blue Moon during an event at the Washington Convention Center, May 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson | Getty Images Jeff Bezos flew to space late last month, but his company has lost top talent since the billionaire space founder came
A pedestrian passes in front of a Charles Schwab Corp. bank branch in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brokerage Charles Schwab is giving most of its employees a special 5% pay raise as record stock market levels propel the industry’s earnings. CEO Walt Bettinger said Thursday in a press release
In this article PSTH Bill Ackman’s troubled SPAC was hit with a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the blank-check company promised “staggering compensation” to directors and asking that the entity’s special status be revoked. The plaintiffs — former Securities and Exchange Commission commissioner Robert Jackson and Yale law professor John Morley — claim that Pershing Square Tontine
Spire CEO Peter Platzer rings the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during their listing in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., August 17, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Small satellite builder and data specialist Spire Global began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, becoming the latest space company to
Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos walks with Blue Origin’s President and CEO Bob Smith after Bezos flew on the company’s inaugural flight to the edge of space, in the nearby town of Van Horn, Texas, U.S. July 20, 2021. Joe Skipper | Reuters Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin filed a complaint in federal court
In this article POSH VRRM PLUG TTD SQSP Plug Power GenDrive Fuel Cell with GenFuel hydrogen. Source: Plug Power Finding fresh investment opportunities in the current financial environment isn’t easy, to say the least. However, following the recommendations of analysts who consistently get it right is one way to find compelling plays that may be
In this article CYXT A data center. Erik Isakson | DigitalVision | Getty Images Company: Cyxtera Technologies Inc. (CYXT) Business: Cyxtera is a global leader in the data center colocation and interconnection services. The company operates a footprint of more than 60 data centers around the world, providing services to more than 2,300 leading enterprises
In this article VGII SPCE Sir Richard Branson waves out the window of spacecraft VSS Unity before launching on July 11, 2021. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson sold more of his ownership of the space tourism company this week, dumping another huge stake to fund his other ventures. Branson, through his Virgin
An artist’s rendering of a Momentus Vigoride transfer vehicle deploying a satellite in orbit. Momentus Space company Momentus will later this week go public on the Nasdaq, a month after settling Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it misled investors. Stable Road Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC, on Wednesday announced its
Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wears a ground prototype of the new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), during a demonstration on Oct. 15, 2019. Joel Kowsky / NASA Elon Musk offered SpaceX’s services to help NASA make its next-generation spacesuits, after a watchdog report on Tuesday said the agency’s current
In this article @GC.1 Gold is a good investment at a time when the world is concerned about inflation, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris told CNBC. The precious metal is often touted as a hedge against rising prices and a safe-haven asset that should make up around 5% to 10% of an investor’s portfolio. But long-time
Jeff Lawson, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twilio Inc., center, rings the opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Sept.17, 2018. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Given the uncertain financial landscape, investors want to know how they can pinpoint stocks that are poised to deliver
Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt attend Robinhood Markets IPO Listing Day on July 29, 2021 in New York City. Cindy Ord | Getty Images Shares of Robinhood are popping again on Friday as the volatile stock heads to end its first full week of trading up nearly 70%. Robinhood shares rose 13% to $57.85 on
SpaceX stacks Starship prototype 20 on top of Super Heavy rocket Booster 4 on August 6, 2011. @elonmusk on Twitter Elon Musk’s SpaceX stacked a Starship prototype rocket on top of a Super Heavy rocket booster for the first time on Friday morning, giving a look at the scale of the combined nearly 400-foot-tall vehicle.
Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, carrying Richard Branson and crew, begins its ascent to the edge of space above Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, U.S. July 11, 2021 in a still image from video. Virgin Galactic | via Reuters Virgin Galactic delivered second-quarter results after the market closed on Thursday
In this article VRA VERA A woman walks past JPMorgan Chase & Co’s international headquarters on Park Avenue in New York. Andrew Burton | Reuters JPMorgan Chase‘s new healthcare unit has made its first investment, CNBC has learned exclusively. The bank has agreed to invest $50 million in Vera Whole Health, a Seattle-based start-up that
SpaceX rolls out Super Heavy Booster 4 in preparation for the company’s first orbital Starship launch. Elon Musk SpaceX on Tuesday rolled out the rocket booster that the company plans to use to launch the first Starship orbital flight, and Elon Musk shared photos of the enormous vehicle. A look inside SpaceX’s high bay after
In this article RKT Signage for Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans is displayed on a laptop computer in an arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Rocket Companies jumped as much as 8% on Monday after the
Tesla’s Model Y compact crossover vehicles at a showroom in Shanghai, China, on January 18, 2021. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Earnings season is well underway, as a number of mega-cap tech names released their financial results this past week. However, there’s still plenty more to come as several companies have yet
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor on Friday defended his enterprise software company’s debt-financed purchases of bitcoin, telling CNBC he sees buying the cryptocurrency right now as comparable to investing in Facebook in the social network’s early days. “We’ve got $2.2 billion of debt and we pay about 1.5% interest, and we have a very long time
Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, introduces a new lunar landing module called Blue Moon during an event at the Washington Convention Center, May 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson | Getty Images The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with Jeff Bezos that NASA wrongly awarded a lucrative
A worker hoists a flight chain at the Calder Brothers’ facility in Taylors, South Carolina, U.S., July 19, 2021. Brandon Granger | Calder Brothers Corporation | Reuters The U.S. economy is now larger than it was before the pandemic, but its growth rate may have peaked this year at a much slower pace than expected.
Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images The U.S. Marshals Service, one of the primary law enforcement agencies of the Department of Justice, has hired custodian Anchorage Digital for cryptocurrency seized or forfeited in various criminal cases. The Marshals Service has spent more than a year seeking a custodian and financial services provider for its stockpile of
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, speaks during a TV interview in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images The boss of cryptocurrency exchange Binance says he’s willing to step down from his role as the company seeks to become a regulated financial institution. Speaking at a virtual press
Jeff Bezos holds the aviation glasses that belonged to Amelia Earhart as he speaks during a press conference about his flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard into space on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover billions of dollars of
Starbucks coffee shop logo seen at one of their stores. Stephen Zenner | LightRocket | Getty Images Wall Street is gearing up for the busiest week of earnings season. Several stock market heavyweights are lining up to release their second-quarter prints, and analysts are taking note. The stocks mentioned in this article have just
In this article CYDY Young chemist working with chemical substances during scientific experiment in laboratory. skynesher | E+ | Getty Images Company: CytoDyn Inc. (CYDY) Business: CytoDyn is a late-stage biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing treatments for multiple therapeutic indications based on leronlimab, a novel humanized monoclonal antibody targeting the CCR5 receptor. Its
In this article SPCE Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides CNBC | Michael Sheetz George Whitesides, the former CEO of Virgin Galactic, will fly on the company’s next spaceflight test, CNBC has learned. Sir Richard Branson made the announcement at a party on July 11 in Las Cruces, New Mexico — following his own spaceflight —
Mark “Forger” Stucky, after piloting the company’s first successful spaceflight on December 13, 2018. Virgin Galactic Mark “Forger” Stucky, Virgin Galactic‘s flight test director and pilot, is no longer with the space tourism company. “I am now a former Director of Flight Test and former SpaceShipTwo pilot,” Stucky wrote in a post on LinkedIn. He