Text size Cryptos are recovering after weeks of losses. Dreamstime Bitcoin led a rally in digital assets on Friday as cryptocurrency traders seemed to turn firmly bullish after weeks of prices under pressure. The price of Bitcoin rose 5% over the past 24 hours to $21,500. The largest digital asset moved as high as $22,400 … Read more
Text size Bitcoin prices have advanced this week. Dreamstime Bitcoin prices have consolidated above a key level as most cryptocurrencies rose on Thursday, helped along by slow but steady gains in the stock market. The price of Bitcoin rose 2% over the past 24 hours to above $20,500, having reclaimed the $20,000 mark on Wednesday … Read more
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in June 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s June 14-15 meeting reveal central bankers’ growing anxiety over inflation and plans to adopt a restrictive policy stance in order to cool rapidly rising prices. The minutes read hawkish. Major stock indexes, however, rose after the release … Read more
Imagine a medicine that reduced the death rate of breast cancer and risk of recurrent breast cancer by 50%, lowered the risks of colon cancer and type 2 diabetes by two-thirds, and those of heart disease, hypertension and Alzheimer’s disease by 40%. On top of that it can be as effective as antidepressants or cognitive … Read more
text size Production and demand for electric vehicles in China rebounded in June. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Investors in electric-vehicle stocks should breathe a sigh of relief on Friday. Production and demand for electric vehicles in China rebounded in June after a Covid-19-induced lull. Deliveries in June at NIO (ticker: NIO ), Li-Auto (LI), and XPeng (XPEV) … Read more
Text size Tesla stock is down about 16% for the current quarter. Nicholas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images You’re here ‘s second-quarter delivery results are expected to arrive in early July. It has been hard to predict the numbers for a couple reasons: The first is production volatility from Covid-19 lockdowns in China, and the other … Read more
Text size Berkshire has scaled back its stock repurchase program this year, and that may be sending a message that CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t view the stock as being so cheap. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Despite what CEO Warren Buffett has called its Fort Knox balance sheet with over $100 billion in cash, Berkshire Hathaway hasn’t … Read more
text size A large Carnival cruise ship docked at port in turquoise blue water. Dreamstine Shares of carnival were rising Friday after the cruise line posted second-quarter revenue that rose sharply from the first quarter of 2022. carnival (ticker: CLC ) reported a GAAP loss of $1.61 a share, wider than analysts’ estimates for a … Read more
Businesses in several different industries are rescinding job offers they made just a few months ago, in a sign the tightest labor market in decades may be showing cracks. Companies including Twitter Inc. real-estate brokerage Redfin Corp. and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. have rescinded offers in recent weeks. Employers in other pockets of the … Read more
