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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Norwegian Cruise Line, Allstate, Roblox and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A Norwegian Gateway cruise ship leaves from the Manhattan port during sunset in New York City, United States on April 10, 2022. Vornado Realty Trust — Shares of the real estate investment trust shed 3.3% after cutting its quarterly dividend to 37.5 cents per share from 53 cents. Roblox — Roblox shares shed 6% following a downgrade to an underweight rating by analysts at Morgan Stanley. Alcoa — Shares of the aluminum company fell 4.6% on Thursday after the company announced its fourth quarter results. Alcoa's adjusted fourth quarter loss was 70 cents per share, narrower than the 81 cent loss expected, according to StreetAccount.

☆ January Monthly Meeting: Cramer shares his outlook for 2023 and why he's more optimistic than most
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Matthew J. Belvedere | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The stock market rally that kicked off 2023 has run into a brick wall over the past two days. We never thought the turn of the calendar from last year's train wreck would leave all our problems behind. However, Jim Cramer said during the Club's January "Monthly Meeting" on Thursday, that he's more optimistic about the year ahead than many strategists. The past two days aside, tech started 2023 as a bright spot as many investors thought that the sector's suffering made it a good place to get back in. Wednesday's decline ended the Nasdaq's seven-session winning streak, a run we never thought was real.

☆ Mega Millions jackpot is $1.1 billion. How big winners can prep for 'the inevitable asking for money' from family, friends
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Sarah O'Brien | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Scott Olson | Getty ImagesIf you've never had family or friends hit you up for money, that is likely to change if you were to win the $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot. It also may make you a target for people who want a piece of your newfound wealth, experts say. When "the inevitable asking for money occurs," she said, "how can you make sure you feel comfortable saying yes or no?" Set up boundaries for money going to family, friendsFor sharing with family and friends, you also should set up parameters, Irwin said. "I think it's helpful to think about under what terms you would gift money," Irwin said.

☆ Market pro names 4 tech stocks to buy the dip after 2022 sell-off
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Zavier Ong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The latter is an index that comprises 100 of the largest non-financial companies that trade on the Nasdaq. The Invesco QQQ Trust is often seen as a barometer of the tech sector's performance, given its heavy tech weighting. While Ware acknowledged that valuations of these large-cap tech companies have gone off a cliff, he remains confident in their longer-term growth. Stock picks The current sell-off thus presents a "great opportunity" for long-term investors to buy the dip, including in tech giants such as Apple and Alphabet , according to Ware. Those stocks weren't spared in last year's tech rout and have sold off significantly despite their strong underlying fundamentals.

☆ Judge tells Trump lawyers to stop filing pointless lawsuits to slow down NY investigations into his businesses
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A judge called an effort by Trump Org lawyers to slow an investigation "frivolous" and "vexatious." The federal judge denied the bid for an injunction to stop the release of some materials. The NY attorney general accuses Trump of fraud and is trying to ban him from future business in the state. Middlebrooks also noted in his ruling that a New York court previously dismissed Trump's efforts to try stop James' investigation. James accuses Trump of committing fraud with his businesses, and is trying to permanently ban Trump and his three oldest children from conducting business in New York.

Presumably, if you’re worried about the security of your laptop, you believe a stranger might steal it. But what’s to say the person you ask to watch your table isn’t a thief themselves? I’m in favor of social norms when they are rational and useful, but I implore cafe society: Please abandon the ones that are irrational and disruptive. Randomly selecting one person to trust — out of a room full of people you don’t know — is irrational. If you’re worried about losing your coveted table, leave something inexpensive behind, like a book or a scarf.

☆ Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave $438 million to charities through their foundations last year. Here's where the tech gurus' huge donations went.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Rob Price | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In 2021, Google's cofounders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, collectively gave away nearly half a billion dollars from their philanthropic foundations. 2 moguls, 2 different approaches to charitiesBrin's personal foundation, the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, disbursed roughly $250 million in both 2020 and 2021. The Sergey Brin Family Foundation lists three key officers. Brin's and Page's philanthropic donations, while extensive, represent a fraction of their net worths. Brin donates directly to the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, while Page's contributions to the Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundation are routed through a limited-liability company named Florida LLC.

☆ Email marketing doesn't have to be complicated — small-business owners share 3 steps they took to get a campaign off the ground in no time
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Erin Greenawald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"However, because we have an email list, we can stay in touch." She added: "And that was because we were very intentional with growing our email list." Nguyen and Dalton shared with Insider the steps they took to make their email programs simple yet successful. Do your research and ask for helpNguyen said if you're nervous about anything related to setting up email marketing, there's someone out there who could help. Think of an easy but enticing lead magnetOne of the best ways to grow your email list, Dalton said, is to give people something in exchange for their email address.

☆ Activision acquisition would be good for Microsoft and the overall stock market
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

That implies that the other 35% of the market is made up of firms with equal to or less than about a 2% market share. For simplicity's sake, let's say an additional 17 firms have a 2% market share each to bring us to 100% of the market. That means the HHI, calculated by the market share number squared and then added together for all 27 companies, would be under 650. If the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal goes through, and you combine the market share concentration of the two companies, the HII would be just over 700. The other issue is how one measures the gaming market.

☆ How Brex cards and software are transforming spend management by focusing on the user experience
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Insider Studios With Brex | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Brex ends the standoff and turns corporate spending into a great employee experience by making compliance easy and automatic. It may be the necessary and exciting future of business, but it's also a headache for finance teams. As a single solution for global spend, Brex was built for distributed, international teams. It flips corporate spending policies from command and control to trust and verifyMany corporate spending policies can make expense-related conversations feel like an interrogation: What is this expense? Brex is a complete spend solution that doesn't just address the pain points of corporate spending; it reimagines corporate spending for a global, mobile, fast-paced world.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Netflix, Intuitive Surgical, Generac, Winnebago and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The power company also reported preliminary third-quarter results, with earnings per share expected to come in at $1.75 compared to the $3.21 estimate. Netflix — Shares of the streaming media company soared 13.1% after the firm on Tuesday posted better-than-expected results on the top and bottom lines. Netflix also reported the addition of 2.41 million net global subscribers, more than doubling the adds the company had projected a quarter ago. Intuitive also reported growth in its da Vinci procedures of about 20% compared with the third quarter of 2021. Snap — The social media stock climbed 2.5% after Citi added a positive catalyst watch on Snap heading into its earnings results Thursday.

☆ Here's how uber-rich pass wealth to heirs tax-free when markets are down
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

But for the uber-rich, it may offer a route to lower estate taxes down the road. That's because one type of trust gives them better odds of shifting some wealth to their children, grandchildren or other heirs tax-free when markets are down — but a subsequent rebound is expected, according to estate planners. Afterward, any investment growth passes to their heirs and the owner gets back the principal. The investment growth becomes a tax-free gift to heirs. Absent growth, the asset simply passes back to the owner without a transfer of wealth.

☆ Gen Z mistrusts everything — big business, government, other people, you name it
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-25 | by ( Daniel Cox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

With that question, The Washington Post's technology columnist, Taylor Lorenz, kicked off a recent Aspen Institute panel entitled "Can Gen Z Trust Their Elders?" Across the board, members of Gen Z are less inclined to trust major institutions than their elders are. Add all these factors up, and Gen Z is looking more and more like it will become permanently mistrustful. Why doesn't Gen Z trust anyone? According to a report by Edelman, seven in 10 members of Gen Z say "they will fact-check" any claim made by a business or advertiser.

The AstraZeneca vaccine received approval from UK regulators in December 2020, and Poonawalla became a household name in India. India's Covid-19 tsunamiBut Poonawalla's plans soon went awry when a second wave of Covid-19 hit India in the spring. But by January 2021, the company had a stockpile of just 70 million doses . SII also says that it has increased its production to 220 million doses a month as of October. SII is also expanding its partnerships, having signed a deal with American biotech firm Novavax to manufacture its Covid-19 vaccine, which is awaiting regulatory approvals.

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