Month: July 2019

Facebook Vice President David Marcus is the face of the company’s Libra digital currency, but the original driving force was a 26-year-old female engineer named Morgan Beller. Source: Facebook On February 12, 2018, Silicon Valley investor and cryptocurrency technologist Howard Wu was invited to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park to discuss the implications, opportunities and
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Larry Fink Anjali Sundaram | CNBC BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, missed analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit on Friday, as investment advisory and securities lending revenue fell and costs rose. Its institutional funds added $87.36 billion in the second quarter, up from $29.12 billion in the first quarter. Investors poured more money into BlackRock’s actively
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Tom Cruise on the set of “Top Gun.” Paramount Pictures | Sunset Boulevard | Corbis | Getty Images On Thursday, Paramount debuted the first trailer for “Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel to the much beloved ’80s classic “Top Gun,” at San Diego Comic-Con. By Friday, eagle-eyed fans had spotted one big difference between the iconic
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David Marcus, Head of Calibra at Facebook, testifies about Facebook’s proposed digital currency called Libra, during a Senate Banking, House and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 16, 2019. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Lawmakers interrogated David Marcus, Facebook’s cryptocurrency chief, asking how the company will educate the
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The “Fast Money ” traders shared their first moves for the market open. Steve Grasso was a buyer of Zoetis. Karen Finerman was a buyer of Red Robin. Dan Nathan was a seller of Microsoft.  Guy Adami was a buyer of Newmont Goldcorp. Disclosure Trader disclosure: Steve Grasso is long stock AAPL, BHC, CAR, EVGN, GE,
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Getty Images Credit card issuer American Express beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit on Friday, as a healthy U.S. economy fueled higher spending by its customers. Customer spending rose 7% in the United States, the company’s biggest market, and 5% globally in the second quarter. U.S. consumer spending increased in May and April. Debit and credit card
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PillPack co-founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen. Just over a year after buying online pharmacy PillPack for $753 million, Amazon is engaged in a bitter battle with an incumbent player in the pharmacy industry, which sources tell CNBC is working behind the scenes to prevent the company from accessing important patient data. PillPack’s pharmacy delivery
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UnitedHealthcare office Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images UnitedHealth reported a 12.7% rise in second-quarter profit on Thursday, as the company added more members to its health plans and revenue climbed in its Optum unit, which includes its pharmacy benefit management business. Net earnings attributable to shareholders rose to $3.29 billion, or $3.42 per share,
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Market researcher James Bianco believes Wall Street is teetering closer to an earnings recession. Unless the Federal Reserve intervenes with a bigger-than-expected 50 basis point cut, he’s worried that year-over-year earnings growth rates for the second and third quarters will go even lower. “The estimates for the third quarter are somewhere just below zero. This
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James Gorman, chief executive of Morgan Stanley. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Morgan Stanley is set to report second-quarter earnings before the opening bell on Thursday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings: $1.14 a share, 12% lower than a year earlier, according to Refinitiv Revenue: $9.99 billion, 5.8% lower than a year earlier
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Guests view sneakers on display for “The Ultimate Sneaker Collection” online auction at Sotheby’s on July 15, 2019 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images A collection of sneakers being auctioned by Sotheby’s sold for $850,000, proving that rare sneakers are becoming a coveted collectible. Sotheby’s and digital retailer Stadium Goods opened the
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A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft lands at San Francisco International Airport on March 13, 2019 in Burlingame, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images United Airlines Holdings’ on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street’s expectations, sending shares up more than 1% in postmarket trading. The Chicago-based airline posted adjusted earnings per share
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