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Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: Stocks were higher in afternoon trading Monday, with the S & P 500 adding nearly 1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite advancing around 1.5%. The action across Wall Street — and not just in stocks, but also in areas like gold and oil — suggest the market is betting that the Israel-Iran attacks will not lead to a broader conflict in the Middle East. As we highlighted in a story…
Bipartisan denunciations are surprisingly effective. Source link
In this photo illustration, the OpenAI logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen with a photo of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.Didem Mente | Anadolu | Getty ImagesThe pace of artificial intelligence innovation is raising the stakes for companies like OpenAI to snatch up top talent, according to new recruiting head Joaquin Quiñonero Candela.”Recruiting has never been more important,” Candela wrote in a LinkedIn post on Monday, announcing his new role. “We’re under unprecedented pressure to grow. If we were a rocket (wait, we’re one), we’d be at MaxQ, maximum dynamic pressure. We’re also in uncharted waters.”Candela, who previously…
Is inflation going to speed up again? Are businesses going to stop hiring? Are people going to cut spending? So many questions for Federal Reserve officials, but so few answers ahead of their meeting this week. Source link
Justin Sun, founder of blockchain platform Tron, poses for a photograph in Hong Kong, May 8, 2020.Calvin Sit | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJustin Sun’s crypto company Tron is set to hit the public market through a reverse merger with a manufacturer of custom toys and souvenirs for the world’s biggest theme parks.SRM Entertainment, a Nasdaq-listed merchandise supplier that has licensing deals with Disney, Universal Studios (owned by CNBC parent NBC Universal) and SeaWorld, said on Monday that it will raise $100 million from a private investor to buy TRON tokens, and will issue preferred shares and warrants that value the…
A fresh Republican rift over taxes burst into public view Monday, as New York House Republicans slammed Senate GOP leaders for reportedly backing a plan to preserve the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions. Source link
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud-computing conference held by the company in 2019.Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle apologized for a major outage that the company said was caused by multiple layers of flawed recent updates.The company released an incident report late on Friday that explained hours of downtime on Thursday. More than 70 Google cloud services stopped working properly across the globe, knocking down or disrupting dozens of third-party services, including Cloudflare, OpenAI and Shopify. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet and other first-party products also malfunctioned.”We deeply apologize for the impact this…
Even Medicare doesn’t know where the money is really going. Source link
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is shown on its launch pad carrying Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet network satellites as the vehicle is prepared for launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 28, 2025. Steve Nesius | ReutersUnited Launch Alliance on Monday was forced to delay the second flight carrying a batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites because of a problem with the rocket booster.With roughly 30 minutes left in the countdown, ULA announced it was scrubbing the launch due to an issue with “an elevated purge temperature” within its Atlas…
Bill Baxley says he made some mistakes when shifting from Apple to a job at Pinterest, and has some advice for successfully starting a new position. Source link