Month: November 2018

European stocks opened higher Wednesday, as investors looked ahead to an all-important G-20 summit later this week. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was up around 0.46 percent shortly after the opening bell, with most sectors and major bourses in positive territory. As the latest G-20 summit draws closer, investors continue to closely monitor simmering tensions between
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Insight from retail experts and insiders ahead of the 2018 holiday shopping season including Former Saks CEO Steve Sadove; O: The Oprah Magazine Creative Director Adam Glassman; and CNBC’s Lauren Hirsch. Fortt Knox is a weekly podcast from CNBC anchor Jon Fortt . Previous episodes of the program can be found here.
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Amazon‘s cloud business is launching a satellite connection service, marking the company’s first public move into space-related hardware and a continuation of its efforts to support the growing industry. The company’s AWS Ground Station unit is building a network of satellite facilities around the world, according to Spire Global, a company which builds and operates
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Nothing will kill your holiday cheer like good, old identity theft. Shoppers are expected to spend a record $7.8 billion this Cyber Monday, up over 17 percent from last year, according to estimates from Adobe Insights. At the same time, attacks against consumers spike during the busy online shopping holiday, according to OpenVPN, a provider
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United Technologies announced late Monday that it intends to separate into three companies: United Technologies, Otis and Carrier. The industrial giant has scheduled an investor call for Tuesday at 8 a.m., ET. Shares of United Technologies gained more than 2 percent in after-hours trading. Activist investor Dan Loeb had pushed for United Technologies to split
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Investors can’t own shares of United Technologies without considering the threats that interest rates and tariffs pose to its business, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. Speaking after Chinese authorities approved United Technologies’ purchase of aircraft parts manufacturer Rockwell Collins — the final hurdle in a 14-month-long process — Cramer said that prospective buyers should watch
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WhatsApp Chief Business Officer Neeraj Arora announced on Monday that he’s leaving the company, the latest in a growing number of high-profile Facebook executives to depart this year. Arora had been with WhatsApp since 2011 and through Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of the messaging company in 2014. His exit comes seven months after WhatsApp co-founder
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Amazon’s cloud business is coming out with cheaper computing options, thanks to server chips that use the energy-efficient Arm processing architecture. Amazon Web Services, the clear market leader for public cloud infrastructure, is the first of the big cloud providers to launch Arm-based computing resources. Microsoft, Google, IBM and other companies compete with Amazon to
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Morgan Stanley’s equity strategist who foresaw the recent sell-off in U.S. stocks sees a lackluster year ahead, marred by underwhelming corporate earnings and tougher financial conditions. Mike Wilson, chief equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, said in a note that he “sees more of the same” stagnant performance from the major indexes in 2019 and forecasts
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Bitcoin and other notable cryptocurrencies rose in value on Monday after a brutal week for the nascent market. The world’s best-known and most-valuable digital currency climbed back above the $4,000 mark late Sunday, according to CoinMarketCap data. Its price fell as low as $3,447.58 on Sunday, as investor angst over the cryptocurrency’s plunge worsened. However,
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