High oil prices could tip the economy into a recession by July, according to a Wall Street strategist
With the Iran war approaching the end of its third month, the US economy is likely to start to feel the effects more acutely by early summer, a top strategist says.
Julian Emanuel, the senior managing director in Evercore ISI’s equity,
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Low-risk investments may be the heroes of your portfolio this year.
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Read MoreGreg Abel Just Sold Berkshire Hathaway's Stake in Visa and Mastercard and Initiated a New Position in a Stock That Warren Buffett Sold 6 Years Ago
Over the past six decades, there’s been no bigger change at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA)(NYSE: BRKB) than at the start of this year, when the company’s longtime chief, Warren Buffett, stepped down as CEO and chose Greg Abel to succeed him. Abel officially started in the role at the beginning of this year,
Tech stocks today: Samsung workers reportedly postpone strike that threatened to disrupt global chip supplies
A dispute over semiconductor workers’ bonuses in Korea could upend global technology supply chains and weigh on South Korea’s economy, as Samsung’s (016360.KS) labor union has threatened to go on strike on May 21 for 18 days.
On Sunday, Samsung and the union agreed to extend negotiations after the first round of government-mediated talks failed and a South Korean court granted a partial injunction that could compel workers to show up amid a strike,
Read MoreUS stocks rally after pressure eases from the bond market and oil prices fall
By STAN CHOE, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market bounced back Wednesday after pressure eased on Wall Street from the bond market and oil prices gave back some of their big gains.
The S&P 500 climbed 1.1% for its first rise in four days and pulled closer to its all-time high set last week.
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Is SoFi Still a Buy After 2x Bull Run?
Shares of SoFi Technologies have rocketed more than 165% over the past year as the company’s fundamentals have improved dramatically. But with the stock now well above Wall Street’s targets, investors are wondering: has the market gotten ahead of itself?
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It’s no longer just a student-loan lender,
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Anthropic’s Rise Has Been Stunning, How Big Can It Get?
A year ago, Anthropic was a specialist name known mostly within AI research circles. Today, the company behind Claude is scaling so quickly that veteran investors openly call its trajectory “almost without precedent.”
Its sharp focus on enterprise AI, and its increasingly intertwined relationship with Microsoft, has made one comparison hard to ignore: is Anthropic quietly positioning itself the way Microsoft did in the early PC era?
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The Best-Kept Secret in AI Infrastructure? Hint: It’s Not Nvidia
DigitalOcean (NASDAQ: DOCN) just pulled off something few small-cap tech companies have achieved in this market: record revenue, soaring profits, and a guidance hike that caught Wall Street flat-footed. The stock popped by almost a third after Q2 results, and yet, shares remain roughly 12% below where they started the year.
That gap between operational performance and valuation might be the opportunity hiding in plain sight.
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