Month: October 2019

IBM shares moved 5% lower after the company issued weaker-than-expected third-quarter revenue on Wednesday. Here’s how IBM did: Earnings: Excluding certain items, $2.68 per share, vs. $2.67 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $18.03 billion, vs. $18.22 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. IBM’s revenue has now dropped for
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The tail wing of an American Airlines plane pulls into its gate after arriving at the Miami International Airport. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Government investigators have received details of a 2016 internal Boeing report that reportedly shows that about one-third of employees who responded felt “potential undue pressure” from management regarding safety approvals by
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Sunrun installer putting up solar electric panels on a residential rooftop in California. Source: Sunrun Hedge fund Tiger Global Management is making a big bet on continued expansion at San-Francisco-based Sunrun, which has grown into the nation’s largest residential solar company. The fund, headed by Julian Robertson protégé Chase Coleman, has been steadily increasing its
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Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman slammed Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on their proposals to put an additional tax on the richest Americans. “Stop portraying billionaires as criminals,” Cooperman said on CNBC on Wednesday, the morning after Warren and Sanders in the latest Democratic debate cast themselves as the hardliners on tacking wealth
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James Gorman, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, fixes his jacket during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Morgan Stanley China Summit in Beijing, China, on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Morgan Stanley is set to report third-quarter earnings before the opening bell on Thursday. Here’s
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The chairman of Switzerland’s largest bank is seeing what he calls an investor strike as the confusion and uncertainty surrounding Britain’s exit from the EU intensifies. “I think you’ve seen, with Brexit but also with the trade disputes, that there has been an enormous increase in uncertainty,” UBS Chairman Axel Weber told CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore
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Denver money manager Fred Taylor of Northstar Investment Advisors. Source: Northstar Investment Advisors Managing investments in a year fraught with headline risks requires a sound strategy and the conviction to stand by it, but also the flexibility to take advantage of fast-changing market conditions. Denver money manager Fred Taylor has long focused on companies that
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HTC’s Exodus 1s smartphone comes packed with cryptocurrency-related features. HTC HTC is bringing out a cheaper version of its blockchain-friendly smartphone in a bid to entice the people hesitant about buying cryptocurrencies and expense flagships from the likes of Apple and Samsung. The Taiwanese smartphone maker on Saturday launched the Exodus 1s, a slightly smaller
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The Honeywell International sign sits outside of the company’s former global headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, on Friday, Jan. 26, 2007.  (Photo by Daniel Barry/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Diversified manufacturer Honeywell International fell short of Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday and cut its full-year sales forecast,
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Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor, waits for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, to speak at an election night event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is moving his
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Barry Sternlicht, co-founder of the privately held Starwood Capital global investment firm, believes a wealth tax, as envisioned by Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, would not be feasible. “I think it’s a crazy idea,” Sternlicht said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday. The wealth tax from Sanders, a Vermont democratic socialist, would
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