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☆ S&P 500's record run is in jeopardy — plus, what Micron could signal about chip demand
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Markets: The S & P 500 has slipped into the red since the Morning Meeting. By the way, since the Sept. 6 close, the S & P 500 jumped nearly 6%, closing at a record 5,732 on Tuesday. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

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☆ Elon Musk's ideas about government efficiency are all wrong, political scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But two political scientists told Business Insider that Musk's desire to run the US government like a private business — an approach many private sector professionals have supported for decades — isn't as foolproof as the CEO might think. AdvertisementTrump, a businessman turned politician, based much of his first presidential campaign on the notion that his experience in the private sector would guide his approach to politics. "In the private sector, the motive is profit. "But inefficiency in the private sector isn't the same." Advertisement"A business isn't really self-correcting, at least not as easily as government is," Crouse said.

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☆ Big investors worry the star managers they trust to run billions are getting distracted as the presidential election enters the homestretch
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Bradley Saacks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Hedge fund managers and private equity executives have become the go-to sources for donations for both parties. AdvertisementBut for the industry's biggest names who have become involved in politics, personal interests and values drive their giving. Advertisement'It's a people business'Mercer's global chief investment strategist, Rich Nuzum, advises institutional investors with more than $16 trillion to invest. "You're probably alienating some potential investors," he said, and that puts all investors at risk if it impacts a manager's business health. While LPs prefer their managers stay out of the headlines, Griffin has not been shy in recent years about picking fights.

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☆ Apple's event will serve as a litmus test for the wider AI industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Apple is gearing up to announce a new lineup of devices at its 'Glowtime' event today — that's where we kick things off in our big story. AdvertisementApple's "Glowtime" event is today, the latest iteration of the tech giant's annual unveiling of its newest iPhone , writes Business Insider's Jordan Hart. AdvertisementAppleThe Apple event will also serve as a litmus test for the wider AI industry. Even giants like Microsoft and Amazon have struggled to turn their big AI bets into revenue drivers. AdvertisementSuccess could give the AI industry more confidence that there is a light at the end of the AI spending tunnel.

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☆ Sex Harassment Suit Is Fourth This Year for a Top Adams Adviser
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( William K. Rashbaum | Dana Rubinstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The adviser, Timothy Pearson, also once sexually abused a female pastor, manipulated her into having sex with him and was abusive during the encounter about 10 years ago — prompting her to file a criminal complaint against him, the suit says. The lawsuit is the fourth action this year to accuse Mr. Pearson of sexual harassment. Like two of the others, it was brought by a male police official who said he was disgusted by Mr. Pearson’s treatment of women at a small unit Mr. Adams created to improve government efficiency. Mr. Pearson declined to comment, referring a reporter to a City Hall spokeswoman and a lawyer the city has hired to represent him. That lawyer denied any wrongdoing on Mr. Pearson’s behalf and said he would vigorously defend him and the city against the claims.

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☆ Growth stocks are plenty. Veteran growth investor shares how he picks ones that can double their earnings
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Some growth stocks, such as major tech companies, had a mostly good run since the start of 2023, but their performance has been unequal. How does he identify the winners among the huge universe of growth stocks out there? Griffin, who manages the Munro Concentrated Global Growth Fund and the Munro Global Growth Small and Mid Cap Fund, says he focuses on structural earnings growth. There are six qualities that make a "great" growth company which can double their earnings, according to Griffin and Moore. These are the top 10 holdings of the Munro Global Growth fund.

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☆ What can drive Apple stock from here? Much more than the iPhone maker's earnings next week
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Any commentary on initial interest in Apple Intelligence will determine where shares go next. As of Wednesday, Apple stock gained about 13% year to date — just shy of the S & P 500 's 2024 performance. The bull/bear debate on Apple depends on whether the benefits of Apple Intelligence are "priced in" at current levels. Yes, the iPhone will be the greatest, most direct way for Apple to realize financial benefits from Apple Intelligence in the near term. Apple will announce plans to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into Apple software and hardware.

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Read Business Insider's guide to the best travel rewards credit cards. But the smartest award hounds are using these popular tools to maximize their rewardsWhy use a credit card rewards tracking app? But no such tool exists as of today, so many dedicated award hounds use a combination of the apps below to track all of their credit card rewards. Top credit card rewards tracking appsAwardWallet: Best for tracking multiple loyalty programsCardPointers: Best for managing your wallet and maximizing credit card offersTravel Freely: Best for couples earning points togetherMaxRewards: Best for monitoring credit alongside of rewardsAwardWalletCost: Freemium — Free version works for most. However, MaxRewards sets itself apart with a running progress bar of the credit card balance you're carrying, and your credit utilization ratio.

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☆ Apple is stepping up its Vision Pro pitch to Hollywood after soft sales and mixed response to the headset
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewApple is stepping up its efforts to get Hollywood to make content for the Vision Pro as it prepares to roll out the mixed-reality headset internationally to boost sales. Director Jon Favreau brought the dinosaurs on his Apple TV+ show "Prehistoric Planet" to life through a spinoff for Vision Pro. Apple is talking up Vision Pro to talent agencies, filmmakers, and producers to fill the pipeline. Apple TV+ produces some, but not all, of the immersive content that's available on Vision Pro. AdvertisementLike the rest of Apple TV+'s shows and movies, Apple doesn't want controversial content for the Vision Pro lest it undermine sales of its consumer electronics overall.

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☆ Young Michigan voters reveal deepening political problems for Biden seven months after start of Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( John King | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“All roads to the White House go through Michigan,” Gray said. “Michigan is up for grabs, and I did not think I would be saying this right now. “And that starts with calling for a cease fire, for listening to his student voters across the country.”A sign in the encampment at the University of Michigan in May 2024. Younger voters were critical to Biden returning Michigan to the blue column in 2020; exit polling showed Biden winning 61% of voters aged 18-29, to just 37% for Donald Trump. Both hope a break from campus protests and demonstrations will give younger voters time and space to see a bigger picture.

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One of the people arrested at Columbia University this week was a middle-aged saxophonist who headed up to the campus from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment after learning about the protests on social media. A third had been active in other left-leaning protests across the city but also happened to work as a nanny nearby. She went to the university gates on Tuesday and linked arms with other protesters in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the advancing officers, she said. After pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied a building on Columbia’s campus this week, demanding that the university end all financial ties with Israel, the New York Police Department moved in and arrested more than 100 people there. Mayor Eric Adams and other city leaders have accused so-called outside agitators — professional organizers with no ties to the university — of hijacking a peaceful student protest and spurring its participants to adopt ever more aggressive tactics.

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☆ Opinion | To Be (Visibly) Jewish in the Ivy League
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Netanel Crispe, from Danby, Vt., is a 21-year-old junior studying American history at Yale. “I was wearing my black hat; I was very identifiably Jewish,” Crispe said. “Thank God, there was a small sphere at the end of the pole,” she told me. Yale and other universities have been sites of almost continual demonstrations since Hamas massacred and kidnapped Israelis on Oct. 7. That’s just fine, insofar as students have a right to express their views about the war in Gaza — whatever one thinks about those views.

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☆ Virtual-reality concerts could redefine the live-music experience — but it'll take more time
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Ngozi Nwanji | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

VR concerts have emerged as a creative outlet for artists such as Travis Scott and Teflon Sega. The enigmatic singer Teflon Sega, who performs as a virtual-reality avatar, also worked with Wave to put on a virtual concert in 2022. Why artists and fans are interested in VR concertsThe appeal of VR concerts lies heavily in their experimental nature. Sarah Malkin, the director of metaverse entertainment content at Meta, told BI that the virtual concerts served both creative and strategic purposes. Over three months, the artist's VR concert was available to watch at select theaters in different cities.

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☆ God's Man in Washington
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +34 min

Trump's departure from the White House hasn't stopped him from using the old administration's star power to fuel Capitol Ministries' growth. But regardless of what happens this coming November, Capitol Ministries is quickly becoming the face of American GOP-style evangelicalism around the world. Other than Ralph's wife, Danielle, and a few members of Capitol Ministries' administrative staff, the room was almost entirely men. Rick Perry spoke to Drollinger at Capitol Ministries' global summit in Washington, DC. And yet, on the question of whether and why to support Israel, Drollinger was indeed looking to Revelation for answers.

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401(k) withdrawal for a home purchase: Is it a good idea? 401(k) withdrawal rules for buying a homeFirst, you'll need to check with your plan administrator to see if early withdrawals are allowed, and under what circumstances. Tax implications of a 401(k) withdrawal for a home purchaseLet's take a closer look at the penalties and taxes you might incur from a 401(k) home purchase withdrawal. 401(k) loan for buying a houseInstead of withdrawing money from your 401(k), you also have the option to take out a loan. 401(k) withdrawal for a home purchase FAQsIs buying a home considered a hardship for 401(k)?

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☆ Here's what it's like to watch a movie in the Apple Vision Pro
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Apple Vision Pro transformed how I watch movies in my first week of using it. With the Vision Pro, the places you can watch a movie are endless as long as you have WiFi. Doing so while wearing the Vision Pro would require me to reposition my window to keep it in my line of sight. AdvertisementBut after some time, the coziness wore off, and the weight of the Vision Pro started to make laying down feel awkward. The Vision Pro can project a jumbotron-like big screen onto my ceiling, so of course I had to do just that.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg has entered his Posting Era
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Mark Zuckerberg put out an Instagram video reviewing the Apple Vision Pro this week. AdvertisementHaving not personally tested both devices, I am not fully qualified to judge whether Mark Zuckerberg's video review accurately compares Apple's Vision Pro to the Meta Quest 3. Mark Zuckerberg has entered his Posting Era. I don't attempt to think too hard about Mark Zuckerberg's inner life, but I don't get the sense that what we're seeing is a window into his soul. What I see now is something I never thought might happen: Mark Zuckerberg is getting high on his own supply.

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☆ The rich want to give their kids real estate and businesses to save on taxes but still control the family fortune. One neat trick: family-limited partnerships.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

And yet, Walton's wife and children didn't have to pay a dime in estate tax. With an FLP, an individual — often a parent or two parents — pools their business assets, which are commonly real estate or stock. There are pragmatic reasons for keeping family business assets consolidated, according to Dan Griffith of Huntington Private Bank. Another sweetener: you can claim a discount on the assets within the FLP and use even less of your estate tax exemption. This would eliminate all gift and estate tax on the business even if the couple dies after the Trump tax cuts sunset.

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☆ What I got wrong about loyalty at work
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In the story, I wrote that people seem to divide into two groups when it comes to the decline of workplace loyalty . To my surprise, a lot of older readers took issue with getting lumped into the pro-loyalty camp. Someone else wrote, more gently, "While I feel you're spot on with most of your facts you've got gen x all wrong." They added: "My generation leads in workplace dissatisfaction and realized 2 decades ago that there was no more corporate loyalty." There isn't a generational divide over workplace loyalty, these readers were telling me.

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☆ Biden's biggest problem in 2024 isn't age or a shaky memory. It's the war in Israel.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementBut among rank-and-file Democratic voters, the situation is far more dire and could threaten Biden's chances of being reelected next November. According to one recent poll, 50% of Democrats believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. While many Democrats who believe that may be willing to support Biden anyway, there's a sizeable portion who may decline to support Biden's reelection. In contrast to questions about Israel, top Democrats have quickly moved to dismiss questions about the special counsel report.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pro Picks is a weekly column where AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi shares his picks for upcoming games. For all previous Pro Picks, head here. ___The underdog Kansas City Chiefs are playing for history against the San Francisco 49ers. Under Shanahan, the 49ers are 32-11 straight up and 28-14-1 against the spread when playing in the Pacific time zone for the second straight game. Pro Picks leans slightly toward the 49ers in a close one that comes down to Purdy having to lead the team to a comeback win for the third straight game.

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☆ Sweden Closes Investigation Into Nord Stream Pipeline Blasts
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Rebecca R. Ruiz | More About Rebecca R. Ruiz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Swedish authorities on Wednesday closed a more than yearlong investigation into the undersea attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, citing a lack of authority to further pursue those responsible for sabotaging the critical piece of energy infrastructure intended to supply Western Europe with Russian gas. “Sweden does not have the jurisdiction to investigate this matter further,” the Swedish Security Service said in a statement on Wednesday. The series of underwater explosions ripped holes in three of the four strands of Nord Stream pipelines and led officials to conclude that they were most likely caused by a state actor. Some saw the attacks, which came close to damaging a cable supplying electricity from Sweden to Poland, as a warning that raised concern about what other infrastructure could be vulnerable. The blasts occurred in international waters but in the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark, which gave those nations a hook to investigate.

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BERLIN (AP) — At least 150,000 people gathered in front of the German national parliament Saturday afternoon to protest against the far right, the latest in a string of large weekend demonstrations across Germany. Some members of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, were present at the meeting. Saturday’s protest drew more participants than organizers expected, despite intermittent rain showers in the German capital. Similar protests against the far right in other German cities, including the southern city of Freiburg and the western city of Hannover, also drew thousands of attendees on Saturday. Polls show AfD is the top party in eastern Germany, including in the states of Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia, which are scheduled to hold elections this fall.

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☆ How to select a personal trainer (and why it’s worth it)
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The global personal fitness trainer market was worth about $41.8 billion in 2023, and market research firm Future Market Insights predicts it will soar to $65.5 billion by 2033. A growing body of research also suggests working out with a personal trainer has a variety of benefits. The two biggest benefits from hiring a personal trainer, though, whether you’re an exercise newbie or a pro, are accountability and motivation, said Mary Wing, a certified personal trainer and performance coach with the fitness app Future. There are trainers who specialize in training older people or those with medical issues, says certified personal trainer Allan Misner. In the end, though, hiring a personal trainer can be a safe and effective way to achieve a healthier life, which is the main goal.

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