Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading: Nike — Shares soared 10%. The sneaker company announced that CEO John Donahoe would step down from the role on Oct. 13. Nike veteran Elliott Hill, who had been at the company for 32 years before retiring in 2020, will...
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tech stocks — Key tech names rallied a day after the Federal Reserve's supersized rate cut decision. Tesla and Meta jumped around 7% and 4%, respectively, while chip darlings Nvidia and ASML each advanced more than 5%. Edgewise Therapeutics —...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has unveiled his latest buzzword to describe monetary policy, with a "recalibration" of policy at a pivotal moment for the central bank.At his news conference following Wednesday's open market committee meeting, Powell used variations of the word no fewer than eight times as he...
LAS VEGAS, United States, September 19th, 2024, ChainwireBlockchain storage layer Xandeum has announced that it will reveal its blueprint for scaling Solana storage at Breakpoint 2024 on September 20, 2024. At the flagship Solana conference in Singapore, Xandeum will also share details of its new storage-enabled liquid staking program...
Gregg Greenberg spent 14 years as a journalist at TheStreet.com where he wrote the highly popular column "The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week". His work has appeared in magazines ranging from Glamour to ESPN the Magazine, and on humor sites such as Points in Case.
Charles Munger at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, April 29, 2022.David A. Grogan | CNBCCharlie Munger believes there is trouble ahead for the U.S. commercial property market.The 99-year-old investor told the Financial Times that U.S. banks are packed with "bad loans" that will be vulnerable...
Siemens wind turbines operate on a wind farm in Marshalltown, Iowa, where many of Berkshire's first big renewable investments were made over the past decade as the former MidAmerican Energy under now-Berkshire Energy was well situated in one of the nation's top wind corridors.Timothy Fadek | Corbis News |...
Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway raised its stakes in five Japan stocks — a good sign for investors in Japan, according to Credit Suisse. "This, together with Berkshire Hathaway's recent issuance of JPY bonds, has put the spotlight on value and quality investment opportunities in Japan," Credit Suisse said...
Market veteran Howard Marks is sounding the alarm on commercial real estate, with an anticipated wave of mortgage defaults set to add stress to the financial system. "We're very likely to see mortgage defaults in the headlines, and at a minimum, this may spook lenders, throw sand into the...
Takeaways from the CQA Spring Conference 2023 by Peter Millington, Founder and CTO of Scientific Financial Systems (SFS)Peter Millington, founder, and CTO of SFS, recently attended the 2023 CQA Spring Conference in Las Vegas. This annual event brings together top quantitative finance professionals to discuss the latest developments and...
At Scientific Financial Systems, we have mapped a lot of vendor data into Quotient – mostly from MS SQL Server databases. With the ever-growing popularity of Snowflake, vendors are releasing versions of their data products on this highly scalable, performant, and easy-to-share database. While Quotient’s architecture allows it to...
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett speaking at Columbia University.Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLegendary value investor Warren Buffett said he has no expertise in artificial intelligence whatsoever, but thanks to Bill Gates, he took a crack at the buzzy chatbot ChatGPT."I think it's something I don't...
