Investing News

Back in December 2023, when the market was pricing in six or so rate cuts, Apollo Asset Management’s co-president Scott Kleinman had a more contrarian view: He said he’d be betting against any rate cuts in 2024.  That call so far has paid off. But higher-for-longer rates haven’t necessarily been a tailwind for the private-equity industry as
0 Comments
Barry Sternlicht, chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, speaks at the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on May 7, 2024. David Swanson | Reuters Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital Group chairman and CEO, defended his decision to cap how much money investors could pull from his
0 Comments
In this article TXN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Texas Instruments Inc. logo is seen on scientific calculator packages in Tiskilwa, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Company: Texas Instruments (TXN) Business: Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company. The company designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog and embedded processing chips
0 Comments
Catherine Wood, chief executive officer of ARK Investment Management LLC, speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has taken a stake in Elon Musk’s startup xAI as she deepens her big bet on artificial intelligence. ARK Venture
0 Comments
In this article SMLR BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dado Ruvic | Reuters Semler Scientific, a little-known medical technology company, saw its shares surge Tuesday after it said it has adopted bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset, taking a page out of MicroStrategy’s playbook. The company, which develops products used in the
0 Comments
In this article AZN-GB BMY LLY NVS NOV.N-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Skynesher | E+ | Getty Images Big pharma is betting billions on an up-and-coming class of cancer treatments that some on Wall Street are calling a “massive opportunity.” It’s called targeted radiopharmaceuticals. The therapy essentially delivers radiation directly into tumors by
0 Comments
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management Scott Mlyn | CNBC As this year’s proxy season draws to a close, defeat after defeat for activist investors in proxy fights this year – most prominently at Disney and Norfolk Southern – raises the question: Are activist investors increasingly getting de-activated, losing their credibility and power? These self-styled
0 Comments
In this article CB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024.  CNBC Warren Buffett finally revealed his secret stock pick in a new regulatory filing, and it’s insurer Chubb. His conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway has bought nearly 26 million shares
0 Comments
In this article ST Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Company: Sensata Technologies (ST) Business: Sensata Technologies is an industrial technology company that develops, manufactures and sells sensors, electrical protection components and other products. The company has two units: Performance Sensing and Sensing Solutions. The
0 Comments
Stanley Druckenmiller, Duquesne Family Office, at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha, Sept. 28, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller revealed Tuesday that he has slashed his big bet in chipmaker Nvidia earlier this year, saying the swift artificial intelligence boom could be overdone in the short run. “We did cut that and a lot of
0 Comments
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. CNBC OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett revealed that he dumped Berkshire Hathaway’s entire Paramount stake at a loss. “I was 100% responsible for the Paramount decision,” Buffett said at Berkshire’s annual shareholder meeting. “It was 100% my decision,
0 Comments