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☆ 14 earnings, jobs and the Fed are what we're watching in the market this week
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

As for Club earnings, we got positive results from life sciences company Danaher and industrial firm Dover. Ford was a major disappointment and its nearly 20% stock drop for the week was the worst performer in the portfolio. In the week ahead, it's going to be another big week of earnings with the four mega-cap names and 10 other Club names set to report. Linde : We're looking for more of the same — steady earnings growth; 6% is the Street estimate. End market commentary will also help us better formulate our view of the economy — and in turn the stock market.

Persons: Russell, Jerome Powell's, Ford, Stanley Black, Decker, We're, we'll, Elliott, we've, We'll, Kraft Heinz, Vita Coco, COCO, Lam, SIRI, WEN, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Michael M Organizations: Nasdaq, Dow, Communication, Honeywell, YouTube, Procter & Gamble, Devices, Microsoft, Starbucks, GE Healthcare, DuPont, Meta, Apple, Coterra Energy, Linde, Silo AI, Elliott Management, GE HealthCare, Amazon, Apple Intelligence, U.S, Labor, Fed, Networks, Procter, Gamble, PayPal, Pfizer, BP, JetBlue Airways, Merck, Solar Inc, Caesars Entertainment, Electronic Arts, EA, Nation Entertainment, Boeing, Cruise, Mastercard, Teva Pharmaceutical, Hess Corp, Arm Holdings, Qualcomm, Lam Research, Western, eBay, EBAY, MGM Resorts, MGM, ConocoPhillips, Mobileye, Canada Goose Holdings, Hershey, Toyota, Dominion Energy, Air Products & Chemicals, Southern Company, International, Coterra Energy Intel, Coinbase, Booking Holdings, LIN, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, LyondellBasell Industries, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC, Traders, New York Stock Exchange, Santiago, Getty Locations: Dover, Eaton, Amazon, China, destocking, Corning, New York City

☆ Crypto firm Ledger hikes prices of iPod-inspired wallet by 40% and launches new mid-tier option
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The Ledger Flex is a new, cheaper hardware crypto wallet from French startup Ledger. Ledger finally released Stax, its long-anticipated hardware crypto wallet, and is shipping units out to people who preordered the product in May. In addition to raising the price for Stax, Ledger is also releasing a new crypto hardware wallet. The Ledger Flex features an E Ink screen, similar to the Ledger Stax. The Ledger Flex, which costs $249, is smaller than the Ledger Stax and comes with a 2.8-inch display.

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☆ Samsung hints at new products as it bets on AI to drive upgrades to its latest foldable phones
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Samsung unveiled a slew of new products including foldable smartphones, new smartwatches and the Galaxy Ring. "I believe strongly that these Galaxy AI, mobile AI are strong motivation and driver for purchase of new products," he added. Still, many analysts don't expect these early AI apps alone to drive new phones sales. So we're going to provide and enhance Samsung software and apps for consumers," Roh said. He said that the hardware components required for foldable smartphones are improving, as is the relevant software.

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☆ 10 things to watch in the stock market Friday after a tumultuous week
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The data didn't sway the market odds on the Fed cutting interest rates three times this year, starting in September. The industrial conglomerate raised its full-year outlook. Two of the Club's industrial names, Honeywell and Dover , reported earnings this week with mixed fortunes for their stocks. Dexcom shares plunged more than 35% after the medical device company missed on revenue and cut its full-year outlook. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

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☆ India likely to ease curbs on some Chinese investments, Reuters reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A view of the Mumbai Coastal Road project is seen in Mumbai, India, on April 3, 2024. India is likely to ease restrictions on Chinese investment in non-sensitive sectors like solar panels and battery manufacturing where New Delhi lacks expertise and which hinders domestic manufacturing, two government sources said. The government plans to free up sectors to Chinese investment that it deems less sensitive from a security point of view, said one of the officials, who did not want to named. The plans mark a first step in improving economic ties between the two neighbors, a relationship that worsened after clashes in the remote Himalayan border in 2020, after which India tightened scrutiny on investments from Chinese companies. The non-critical sectors "would be decided on a case-to-case basis," the second official said, but curbs on Chinese investments in electronics and telecom would continue.

Locations: Mumbai, India, Delhi

☆ A millennial dad's $0 student-loan payments gave his family some breathing room. Then courts blocked Biden's repayment plan leaving 8 million borrowers like him in limbo.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Throughout his repayment, Pedrick has been on an income-driven repayment plan, which calculated his payments based on his five-figure salary. "And I was really thankful not to have to pay my student loan payments at that point." Earlier this year, two separate groups of attorneys general filed lawsuits to block the SAVE plan. The department is still carrying out account adjustments, during which it brings borrowers' payments up to date to bring them closer to relief. Are you concerned about the future of your student-loan payments?

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☆ U.S. Secretary of Commerce talks domestic chip production: 'There's no place to be reckless here or play politics'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In a Thursday interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo stressed the importance of domestic chip production and said the country is on track to meet its end-of-decade goal. "My boss, President Biden, has been crystal clear on this topic, and I think there's no place to be reckless here or play politics with this," Raimondo said. The Biden Administration's CHIPS act allocated billions to encourage semiconductor companies to manufacture their products in the U.S., with recipients including Intel , Micron , Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor . "American businesses were in search of cheap capital and cheap labor and profits, so everything went overseas—China, Taiwan, etcetera," Raimondo said. "Except, we wake up now, and we find that whether it's chips or critical minerals or components, we're vulnerable.

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☆ Asia markets open lower as traders assess Aussie business activity data, U.S. tech earnings
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Lim Hui Jie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Asia-Pacific markets fell on Wednesday as traders assessed July business activity data from Australia, tech earnings from the U.S. and awaited Japan PMI readings. Late Tuesday, automaker Toyota said it will buyback 806.85 billion yen ($5.17 billion) of its shares from major Japanese banks and insurers, including Tokio Marine , Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group . Heavyweight Samsung Electronics plunged 1.8%, even as Reuters reported that chip giant Nvidia had cleared its chips for use in a processor for the China market. The South Korean electronics company is still grappling with a strike from its largest workers union, with talks on Tuesday yielding no results, according to the National Samsung Electronics Union, which has about 30,000 members. Hong Kong Hang Seng index futures were at 17,474, just marginally higher than the HSI's last close of 17,469.36.

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☆ Conn’s, a 134-year-old home goods retailer, is closing 70 stores
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Conn’s HomePlus, a 134-year-old furniture and electronics retailer with locations primarily in the southern United States, has filed for bankruptcy and is closing nearly half of its 170 stores. The 73 Conn’s HomePlus stores closing are listed on its website. Other states where stores are closing include Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia. Badcock, another home goods retailer that operates in the southeast US under the “Badcock Home Furniture & more” name. That purchase increased the company’s total retail footprint to more than 500 stores among the two brands, however 35 Badcock stores are also closing.

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☆ 4 high-conviction stock picks from top ETF managers — including GMO and a fund up 90% since 2022
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Texas InstrumentsMarkets InsiderFund: GMO US Quality ETF (QLTY)Weight in fund: 3.8%Tom Hancock, the manager for the GMO US Quality ETF (QLTY), identified Texas Instruments (TXN) as the holding in his fund he's most bullish on given that it has recently underperformed much of the semiconductor industry. "Texas Instruments is a semiconductor company without a strong 'AI' story behind it. The stock has hence lagged its industry despite great long-term fundamentals and strong management," Hancock said. "Those chips go into all manner of applications across industrial, automotive, consumer electronics, communications infrastructure as well as data centers. Shares of Texas Instruments are up 7% over the last 12 months.

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☆ Inside Best Buy's push to get back to sales growth, cash in on AI craze
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

One of Best Buy's major hopes to drive sales comes from artificial intelligence-enabled laptops and smartphones. Best Buy expects revenue to range from $41.3 billion to $42.6 billion, a decline from $46.3 billion last year. (Best Buy is among the retailers that have participated in the Amazon-created retail holiday by offering up its own deals.) The collection, which includes roughly 40 different items with about 40% exclusive to Best Buy, began to get delivered in mid-June. A Best Buy store in Woodbridge, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

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☆ When Pakistan Tightened a Border, Thousands of Lives Were Upended
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Zia Ur-Rehman | Christina Goldbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For most of Abdul Manan’s life, the border dividing Afghanistan and Pakistan was little more than a line on a map. Like generations of men before him, Mr. Manan, 55, commuted every day from his mud-brick home on the Pakistan side to the wheat field his family had cultivated for decades in Afghanistan. His four sons crossed the border with him, transporting electronics and groceries from markets on one side to homes on the other. It was a journey shared by tens of thousands of residents in the Pakistani town of Chaman, the site of the last official border crossing where people could pass through using only their national identity card from Pakistan. For the first time since the border was drawn over a century ago, the Pakistani authorities are requiring residents to show a passport and visa before crossing — paperwork that virtually none of them have, they say.

Persons: Abdul Manan’s, Manan Locations: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chaman

☆ Taiwan stole America’s chip industry according to Trump. But that’s not true
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Wayne Chang | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Industry experts tell CNN that, far from stealing, Taiwan grew its own semiconductor industry organically through a combination of foresight, hard work and investment. The only possible strength that Taiwan had, and even that was a potential one, not an obvious one, was semiconductor manufacturing,” he said. Billionaire Morris Chang, chairman and founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on October 6, 2017. It now produces more than 90% of the world’s advanced chips, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. “Taiwan has very good tech talent and an environment for research, development and investment.

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☆ Modi's government pledges fiscal prudence in India's post-election budget
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | In Charmainemariajacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Nirmala Sitharaman, India's finance minister, leaves the ministry to present the budget at the parliament in New Delhi, India, on July 23, 2024. India's finance ministry on Tuesday lowered the country's fiscal deficit target to 4.9% for the financial year ending March 2025, a revision from 5.1% during the pre-election interim budget published back in February. That target will then fall to 4.5% or lower for the financial year ending March 2026, India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during the announcements. "This is imperative for attracting foreign investment and sustaining growth," he said, adding that "unprecedented financial support" from the central bank will make the fiscal deficit target possible. "We will endeavor to maintain strong fiscal support for infrastructure over the next five years, in conjunction with imperatives of other priorities and fiscal consolidation."

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☆ Opinion | We Can Buy Sustainable Food. Why Can’t We Buy Sustainable Batteries?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Stephen Lezak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Seventy years ago, the United States was the world’s leading producer of fluorite, a brilliantly multicolored mineral essential to industries such as steel. But the last American fluorite mine closed nearly 30 years ago, unable to compete with cheaper operations in places like Mongolia. The decline of domestic mining means that Americans are outsourcing the environmental and social costs of our inexpensive consumer goods to lower-income nations. More than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, sometimes called the blood diamond of electric vehicle batteries, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where child labor and sexual violence are rampant in mines. About half of the world’s nickel, another key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, comes from mines in Indonesia, some of which have destroyed almost 200,000 acres of rainforest amid allegations of operating illegally on Indigenous land.

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☆ This scientist who worked for Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates is now a VC funding other 'mad scientists'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

And while he wants to tackle the world's biggest problems such as waste, impact isn't Deep Future's sole priority. Related storiesIn some ways, Deep Future's mission harkens back to Silicon Valley's roots, he said. As for Deep Future's investments, the challenge is whether the technology can be built and made cost-effective, ideally within its investment horizon of 10 years. One of Deep Future's portfolio companies, Descycle, is developing non-toxic chemicals to separate gold in electronics in landfills. Getting investors on board with mad scientistsWith Deep Future's niche, getting investors' attention has been easy, Holman said.

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Introduction to Chase Ultimate Rewards®The Chase Ultimate Rewards® rewards program is frequently considered one of the top credit card point systems available today — and for good reason. Earning Chase Ultimate Rewards pointsThe only way to earn rewards in the Chase Ultimate Rewards ecosystem is to open and use a Chase card that operates within this program. Redeem points for experiences (point values vary)You can also use Chase Ultimate Rewards points to book special experiences, including one-of-a-kind events hosted by Chase. Chase Ultimate Rewards frequently asked questionsAre Chase Ultimate Rewards worth it? Chase Ultimate Rewards is a versatile and highly regarded rewards program offered by Chase Bank.

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Keep reading to see how the Amex Platinum Card and the Amex Business Platinum Card differ, and to decide if either is right for you. Finally, the Amex Platinum Card and the Amex Business Platinum Card come with a Priority Pass membership**. 35% points rebate on the Amex Business PlatinumThis is an incredibly valuable perk that's only available with the Amex Business Platinum Card. Amex Platinum vs. Amex Business Platinum frequently asked questionsWhat are the main differences between the Amex Platinum and Business Platinum cards? The Amex Platinum earns bonus points on travel, while the Business Platinum also offers elevated rewards on certain business expenses.

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☆ China is doubling down on homegrown tech. Goldman Sachs shares its chip plays
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

From an investment perspective, Goldman Sachs analysts on July 15 pointed out there are notable catalysts for certain semiconductor and artificial intelligence China stock plays from August to December. Officials told reporters about plans to speed up "emerging and future industries," and expand the development of tech talent in China. Ways to play the space The bank has buy ratings on at least two Chinese companies in the industry. The Goldman analysts are also optimistic about growth for Chinese fabless companies, the businesses which design chips but outsource the manufacturing process. Montage generates nearly all of its revenue from servers, while Will Semiconductor draws about half of its revenue from smartphones, and one-third from automobiles, according to the Goldman report.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Biden, Goldman, 3Q24E Organizations: Officials, Microsoft, Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor, ACM Research, Goldman, Will Semiconductor Locations: Beijing, China, TSMC, U.S, Shanghai, Friday's

☆ Could a dumb phone that's also a vape help break my iPhone addiction? I tried the Swype vape phone that's going viral.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I first learned of the Swype vape on social media, where a few doctored images of its screen had gone viral. AdvertisementNow, an obvious disclaimer: Business Insider does not endorse vaping or starting to vape simply because it seems like it would be funny to have a vape phone. (Samatha Cole of 404 Media also tried out the Swype vape; we didn't plan this. The touchscreen does display notifications when you swipe up — I could see messages from Signal, news push alerts, X notifications, and texts. This app seems designed not for the Swype vape but for some sort of wearable fitness tracker.

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☆ The top-selling US Prime Day products were random house things
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Lian Kit Wee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Practical purchases dominated this year's Amazon Prime Day in the US, the 48 hours of mega-discounts that generate billions in sales. Last year, consumer electronics and cosmetics were among the top Prime Day purchases, CNBC reported. Adobe Analytics forecasted before the mega-sale that this year's Prime Day would hit a record $14 billion in sales, breaking 2023's record by 10.5%. And it's too early to know what Amazon shoppers bought around the world: Some countries' Prime Day sales stretch for nearly a week, while India's Prime Day happens later this summer. "It was Christmas in July quite frankly — a bigger day than Black Friday," Brian Olsavsky, Amazon's CFO, told investors after the company's first Prime Day.

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☆ Walmart has the advantage for back-to-school — and that's really bad news for this retail stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Christina Cheddar Berk | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Walmart shares have outperformed the market. Analysts remain overwhelmingly bullish on the stock with more than 80% of analysts rating shares a buy or overweight, according to FactSet. Target shares reflect the strain of the competition. And if Walmart continues to win over wealthier customers, that's more bad news for Target. On Tuesday, KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Bradley Thomas reiterated that Walmart remains one of his top stock ideas.

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