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☆ Jim Cramer's Investing Club meeting Tuesday: J&J, Danaher, AMD
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. Buy JNJ while it's down Look to buy Danaher Wait to buy AMD 1. Look to buy Danaher Danaher (DHR) on Tuesday reported strong fourth-quarter earnings but forecasted a lighter-than-expected guidance, sending the stock down nearly 3% in midmorning trading. 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 .

☆ This biotech stock is up 10% in the last month — and analysts expect it to rise a further 118%
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Wall Street is bullish on the California-headquartered company, which makes the enzymes for Pfizer's Covid-19 oral antiviral treatment ; all eight equity analysts covering the stock give it a buy rating. Their median price target points to a 118% potential upside over the 12 months, according to FactSet. "We believe that PRGN's R & D event will validate the key value propositions that underscore PRGN-2012," said Cantor Fitzgerald's analysts in a note to clients on Jan. 12. Other companies on the list include the London-listed stock of Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Genus , which analysts expect to rise by more than 40% over the next 12 months. Clinical diagnostics company Bio-Rad Lab and Sweden-headquartered IVF specialist Vitrolife are the other stocks expected to go up by analysts.

☆ Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the market Tuesday: Big Microsoft AI bet, defensive rotation
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft and Alphabet are both Club stocks. Boeing (BA) downgraded to equal weight from overweight (hold from buy) at Morgan Stanley (MS). Wells Fargo upgrades AT & T (T) to overweight from equal weight (buy from hold); price target up to $22 per share from $17. On the seas, Morgan Stanley downgrades Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH) to underweight from equal weight (sell from hold). As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ 2 of our stocks get nice pops. Here's the news and what we think
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

DHR 1Y mountain Danaher's 1 year stock performance Danaher is set to present at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday afternoon. Now, management sees core sales growth up in the high single-digit range. In addition to the core revenue growth revision, management is now factoring in no growth coming from Covid-related testing. STZ 1Y mountain Constellation Brands 1-year stock performance;. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Tesla, Nvidia, Lululemon and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Carmen Reinicke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong, China, 13 Sept 2022, A red Tesla car passes in front of a Tesla dealership in Wanchai. Tesla – Shares of Tesla rose 8% Monday after CEO Elon Musk's attorneys on Saturday asked a California court to move a trial over the company stock to Texas, citing local negativity. Uber – Uber shares gained 5.2% on an upgrade from Piper Sandler to overweight from a neutral rating. Monolithic Power Systems – Shares of Monolithic Power Systems gained 6.4% amid the semiconductor rally, following shares of Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. Goldman Sachs – Shares gained 2% following reports that the banking giant is laying off 3,200 employees, or 6.5% of the workforce it had in October.

☆ 23 of the best business apps for entrepreneurs that help with organization, connectivity, and mindfulness
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Digital tools such as apps have become a crucial part of running a business, founders told Insider. Many of these apps are free and help with tasks like organizing project timelines or meditation. Many of these apps are free or low-cost and help entrepreneurs with tasks like organizing project timelines, connecting with customers, and finding time for themselves. TikTok"I love TikTok for both life and business," Daphne Chen, the founder of the sexual-healthcare company TBD Health, said. CalmDiego Osorio, the founder of the tequila brand Lobos 1707, prefers the Calm meditation app for 20-minute meditations and stress management.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Lululemon, Duck Creek, Mastercard, Uber and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Visa , Mastercard — Shares of the payments companies gained 1.1% and 1.7% respectively, after Keybanc upgraded their ratings to overweight from from sector weight. Shares gained 2.8% premarket. Uber — Shares gained 2.8% after the rideshare platform was upgraded to overweight from neutral by Piper Sandler. Nvidia — The stock gained 1.6% premarket after being named a top pick by Wells Fargo analysts, who said they see a positive data center product-cycle materializing through 2023. Ferrari — Shares rallied more than 2% premarket after being named a top pick for 2023 by Bank of America.

☆ Rapid tests for Covid, RSV and flu are available in Europe. What's stopping them in the U.S.?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Aria-Bendix-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Aria Bendix | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

But unlike Covid tests, which are available over the counter, RSV and flu tests must be performed at a doctor’s office or ordered via prescription. The rapid test from Brus' photo, however, is available in the European Union, and the manufacturer has certified that it meets the E.U. The FDA said it strongly supports at-home tests for respiratory viruses, including combination tests for flu and Covid. Unlike Covid tests, Butler-Wu said, there have been fewer opportunities to study whether rapid flu tests can be administered in the shallower part of the nose and maintain their accuracy. Butler-Wu said rapid flu tests given by medical professionals are generally about 60% sensitive, meaning they produce false negatives about 40% of the time.

☆ Credit Suisse downgrades Danaher as Covid vaccine demand dwindles
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Credit Suisse is shifting its perspective on shares of Danaher as the company's bioprocess business comes under pressure. Analyst Dan Leonard downgraded the medical stock to neutral from outperform, citing exposure to bioprocessing inventory reductions that could threaten Danaher's growth. "Danaher has reduced its near-term growth expectations for its Bioprocess business (~25% of 2022e sales, ex COVID testing) as COVID vaccine demand has fallen and customers reduce inventory," he wrote in a note to clients Thursday. He trimmed his price target to $300 from $315 a share, with sales and earnings per shares expectations through 2025 coming in below Wall Street's expectations. The fresh target implies a near 13% jump for the stock after it shed more than 19% in 2022.

☆ Jim Cramer's top 10 things Thursday: Strong jobs, Amazon cuts staff
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The life sciences and medical diagnostics company is doing so much to help its share price that I find this downgrade curious. Piper Sandler cuts price target on Cyberark Software (CYBR) to $160 per share from $190, suggesting more room to drop. 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.

☆ Wall Street analyst calls on Thursday including Tesla & Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Barclays names Starbucks a top 2023 pick Barclays said the coffee giant is a "best-in-class" stock for 2023. UBS names Chipotle a top 2023 pick UBS said the Mexican chain restaurant is defensive in a "tough macro." Bank of America downgrades PNC to underperform from neutral Bank of America said shares of PNC are trading at a premium. Bank of America downgrades Ally Financial to underperform from buy Bank of America said Ally is most exposed to auto loans. Bank of America reiterates Amazon as buy Bank of America said Amazon layoffs are "not a positive signal, but good for sentiment."

☆ Jim Cramer's Investing Club meeting Thursday: Avoid expensive stocks
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. Avoid expensive stocks Stocks continued their drop on Thursday after the December ADP private payrolls report indicated the labor market remains strong. Still a buyer of Ford Ford Motor (F) said Thursday that it sold more than 75,000 F-series pickups in December, a 20% increase compared to last year. 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 .

☆ GE HealthCare shares rise in market debut
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Jan 4 (Reuters) - Shares of GE HealthCare Technologies Inc reversed course to trade up 4.4% in their market debut on Wednesday, after the medical equipment maker completed its separation from industrial conglomerate General Electric Co (GE.N). GE said in 2021 it would split into three public companies to simplify its business, pare down debt and breathe life into battered shares. GE HealthCare - which will operate imaging and ultrasound devices, patient care solutions and pharmaceutical diagnostics businesses - expects its addressable markets will expand to $102 billion by 2025 from $84 billion in 2021. The company will be present in more than 160 countries and have about 51,000 employees worldwide, GE HealthCare said on Wednesday. Shares of the company, which is scheduled to release its fourth-quarter and full-year results on Jan. 30, were trading at $58.40 on the Nasdaq.

☆ How Amazon's cloud unit is helping researchers analyze genetics
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Amazon Web Services recently launched general availability for Amazon Omics, which helps researchers store and analyze omic data like sequences of DNA, RNA and proteins. Amazon Omics helps researchers sort through their data by providing them with three components that they can leverage individually or as a collective. More than a dozen customers and partners tested a beta version of the service and are already using Amazon Omics. He said the department spent five years expanding the infrastructure to analyze omics data, and now it's no longer something they need to build or maintain themselves. C2i is a biotechnology company that's working to use genomic data to develop personalized treatments for cancer.

☆ These stocks are winning the battle against inflation and expanding profit margins
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Still, there are plenty of individual stocks whose businesses are fundamentally performing well, improving their profit margins even at a time when inflation is running at a 40-year high. As a result, analysts and strategists say there are still opportunities to profit by carefully choosing stocks, even in a bear market. Gross margin measures a company's remaining profit after subtracting all costs related to its product or service. Its performance aligns with the broader energy sector, which has surged this year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The S & P 500 energy sector, which has added about 60%, is the only major group, out of 11, that's advanced in the benchmark index in 2022.

☆ Indian shares slip on COVID-19, inflation worries
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BENGALURU, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Indian shares slipped on Thursday, with declines seen across most sectors after monetary policy minutes revealed strong concerns about elevated inflation, while fears about rising COVID-19 cases in China weighed on sentiment. India's health minister on Wednesday said the pandemic was "not over yet" given "the rising cases of COVID-19 in some countries". Asian markets also advanced after the bounce in U.S. shares, with the MSCI Asia ex Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) rising 1.49%. India's retail inflation eased below the RBI's upper tolerance limit of 6% for the first time in 2022 in November, but core inflation stayed above 6%. Khemka also said the remarks from the RBI minutes were "consistent with the central bank's adherence to tackling inflation".

☆ Final Trades: Quest Diagnostics, Treasurys & more
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFinal Trades: Quest Diagnostics, Treasurys & moreThe "Halftime Report" traders give their top picks to watch for the second half.

☆ Mountain lion P-22 was 'compassionately euthanized' after showing signs of physical trauma. Here's how he went from a trouble-making cat to a symbol of Los Angeles.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Mountain lion P-22 was euthanized on Saturday after suffering from injuries and illnesses. There was "no hope for a positive outcome" in letting P-22 live, wildlife officials announced. The tests also showed the mountain lion suffered from multiple ailments, including kidney disease, a significant loss of weight, arthritis, and a parasitic skin infection all over his body. P-22, who has been key to mountain lion research in the area, was likely born in the Santa Monica Mountains. A trail camera picture of mountain lion P-22, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., 2012.

☆ As China seeks to live with the virus, COVID-control industries face decline
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Eduardo Baptista | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] Workers in protective suits wait for people at a nucleic acid testing site, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Shanghai, China, December 9, 2022. A day later though, the 43-year-old lost her job as one of the city's many hazmat-suited COVID swab testers. The industries had become big business over the course of the pandemic and are huge employers even if precise statistics are hard to come by. It remains to be seen just how painful China's dismantling of its COVID-control infrastructure will be for companies and their staff. ($1 = 6.9605 Chinese yuan)Reporting by Eduardo Baptista; Editing by Brenda Goh and Edwina GibbsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

"The jury is still out," on which technology will dominate, said Dr. Sadik Esener, director of the Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute in Portland, Oregon. He added it could take as long as 20 years to show that an early cancer detection test saved lives. If proven to work, early cancer detection tests could help doctors identify cancer risk in patients long before symptoms or other indicators develop. DIFFERENT APPROACHESSeveral of the leading contenders take vastly different approaches to cancer detection and it is not yet clear which methods will prove most useful or when. Some are working on blood tests to detect different markers of early cancer, including proteins.

☆ Goldman Sachs' inflation picks — 10 stocks to buy if prices are peaking
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Here are 10 of those names: Two pharma biotech companies made the cut, including Viatris , which has the highest earnings yield on the list. In the banking space, KeyCorp is among the names that should fare well, according to Goldman Sachs. Also on the list is Microchip Technology , which has an 8% earnings yield and 4% estimated earnings growth in 2023. Lastly, Molson Coors Beverage should also outperform amid decelerating inflation, according to Goldman. Molson Coors has an 8% yield and it's estimated earning growth for 2023 is 6%, per Goldman.

☆ Roche's head of pharmaceuticals to leave company
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

ZURICH, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Roche's (ROG.S) head of its pharmaceuticals division will leave the drugmaker at the end of the year, the Swiss company said on Monday, as it confirmed other parts of its succession plan. Former Genentech boss Bill Anderson "has decided to pursue opportunities outside of Roche," Roche said, with a successor due to be named by March 2023. Schinecker will replace Severin Schwan, who is slated to become chairman after 14 years as CEO of Roche. He has been instrumental in shaping Roche’s transformation and I wish him all the best for the future," Schwan said in a statement. He had been CEO of Roche's pharmaceuticals business since 2019.

☆ California invested an enormous amount of money into getting EVs on the road, but practically nothing when it comes to dealing with the waste: 'It's totally like the Wild West.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

"It's totally like the Wild West," said Zora Chung, co-founder of ReJoule, Inc., a startup project based in Signal Hill that is exploring repurposing used batteries from EVs. However, there are no EV battery recycling plants that exist in California, nor tried-and-true recycling programs in place to deal with the fallout. Currently, the company has used batteries deployed at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, where solar panels feed electricity into the used battery storage units. Charging station for electric and hybrid cars using solar panels to generate electricity to charge car batteries. "Imagine if it just took you one full work week to qualify one used battery," Chung said.

Dec 8 (Reuters) - General Electric Co's (GE.N) healthcare division is aiming to have a medium-term organic revenue growth in the mid-single-digits, the unit's Chief Executive Officer Peter Arduini said at an investor day conference on Thursday. China, which accounts for about 15% of total GE Healthcare sales, would also help drive growth as there is a pent-up demand in the market, Arduini said. GE Healthcare also expects medium-term adjusted core earnings margin to be close to 20%. Zodl highlighted challenges such as macroeconomic factors, supply chain challenges, restructuring action undertaken in 2022 along with planned investment in research and development which may weigh on its core earnings margin. The healthcare company had revenue of around $18 billion last year, with about half of it from recurring sources, GE Healthcare said in a presentation.

☆ Jim Cramer's Investing Club meeting Wednesday: China reopening, Danaher, Apple
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. Buy and hold Estee Lauder China on Wednesday announced significant rollbacks of its stringent zero-Covid policy. 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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