In this article CFV A satellite image of the stuck container ship Ever Given in Egypt’s Suez Canal, taken on March 25, 2021. Satellogic Satellite Earth imagery specialist Satellogic is preparing to go public, announcing on Tuesday that it will be the latest in a string of space companies merging with SPACs. Satellogic is merging
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In this article WB DIDI TME The Didi ride-hailing app on a smartphone arranged in Beijing, China, on Monday, July 5, 2021. Yan Cong | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S.-traded shares of prominent Chinese companies were under pressure on Tuesday after the Asian country’s officials launched a cybersecurity review of Didi, fueling concerns about
Olena Ruban | Moment | Getty Images Cannabis industry investors have been treated to a series of legislative catalysts over the last three years that have moved equity valuations. Notable moments include Canada’s federal adult-use implementation, the election of President Joe Biden, and the Georgia Senate run-off in January. Additionally, the state-by-state legalization movement is
Hedge fund founder Anthony Scaramucci told CNBC on Wednesday that the Chinese government’s crackdown on Didi Global, just days after the ride-hailing giant went public in the U.S., is “a direct assault on global capitalism.” “The bad news for the Chinese and the United States now is, if you’re a capital allocator in the United
A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past a Wells Fargo & Co. bank branch in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 9, 2020. Peter Foley | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wells Fargo is ending a popular consumer lending product, angering some of its customers, CNBC has learned. The bank is shutting down all existing
Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder and CEO, Circle David A. Grogan | CNBC Payments and digital currency firm Circle plans to go public later this year through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Concord Acquisition Corp. The deal, which Circle announced on Thursday, is expected to close in the fourth quarter and would value the company
Willis Towers Watson PLC (NASDAQ: WLTW) became one of the largest multinational insurance advisory and brokerage firms at the start of 2016 with the merger of Willis Group Holdings PLC and Towers Watson & Company in a deal valued at $18 billion. As of July 8, 2021, the company had a market capitalization of about
Crowdfunding refers to raising money from the public (i.e., the “crowd”), primarily through online forums, social media, and crowdfunding websites to finance a new project or venture. Equity crowdfunding takes this one step further. In exchange for relatively small amounts of cash, public investors get a proportionate slice of equity in the business venture. Previously,
With rising living costs and ever-higher credit card interest rates, you may decide you can improve your financial well-being and limit your debt by closing credit cards. Before you do that, though, it’s important to understand the impact that closing a credit card will have on your credit score, including what will happen to any credit history
Protecting your most important assets is an important step in creating a solid personal financial plan, and the right insurance policies will go a long way toward helping you safeguard your earning power and your possessions. In this article, we discuss five policies you shouldn’t do without. Key Takeaways Choose a disability policy that provides enough
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) allows multiple payment options for its credit cards, including in-store payments. The multinational retail company has a store-only card and a general use card; both card balances can be paid at a retail location. Payment Options With Walmart Credit Cards Walmart allows its customers to pay credit card balances in
Avantax Wealth Management is an independent broker-dealer firm that offers financial planning and asset management services. It’s been around since 1983 and has tweaked its business several times to keep up with current demands. Currently, Avantax Wealth Management has over 300 employees and is affiliated with 3,750 financial advisors who advised on $76 billion worth
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Wood — a longtime bitcoin bull — has been buying up proxies for the digital asset in names such as Coinbase and Grayscale Bitcoin Trust. Now, the innovation investor is seeking to own the actual asset
Zillow home page Source: Zillow Investors looking for stock ideas into the second half of 2021 may want consider some of these fresh ideas. These are stocks that Wall Street analysts believe are primed to surge over the long run and offer good value now. The names highlighted in this article not only fit the
In this article 9988-HK 9888-HK FISV Leon Cooperman on CNBC’s “Halftime Report.” Scott Mlyn | CNBC Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman said Tuesday that stock picking is key to superior returns going forward as the overall market has grown stagnant after a historic rebound from the pandemic hit. “In terms of my long-term outlook, to be honest
Mary Erdoes Adam Galica | CNBC JPMorgan Chase wants to take the sustainable-investing trend to the next level. To do that, the biggest U.S. bank by assets has agreed to buy OpenInvest, a San Francisco-based start-up backed by Andreessen Horowitz and founded by former Bridgewater Associates employees, CNBC has learned exclusively. It’s the third acquisition
Robinhood will pay roughly $70 million in penalties for its systemwide outages and misleading communication and trading practices, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Wednesday. The settlement regards the technical failures Robinhood experienced in March of 2020, Robinhood’s lack of due diligence before approving customers to place options trades and purveying misleading information to customers
An aerial view of the company’s planned factory near Long Beach Airport in California. Relativity Space 3D-printing specialist Relativity Space is adding a second factory in Long Beach, California on the site of a former Boeing facility, where the company will move its headquarters and focus work on building fully reusable rockets. “This is really
In this article ZM 6694.T-JP Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, revealed he is fond of Zoom, saying the videoconferencing software will keep thriving even as life goes back to normal after the pandemic. “I have fallen in love with Zoom,” Munger said during an interview with Becky Quick on CNBC’s special “Buffett & Munger:
Before Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger became known as iconic business partners, steering the Berkshire Hathaway empire, they were just two guys from Omaha, Nebraska, who, apparently, were a lot a like. They discovered that thanks to a well-known doctor in town, Dr. Edwin Davis, who told Buffett in a 1957 meeting he trusted him