Intel stock fell over 5% on Friday after the company told investors at a meeting on Thursday that it will have to spend heavily in the next two years to power its turnaround and transformation into a manufacturer for other semiconductor companies. The stock also took a hit on Thursday when...
For Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, inflation has become a driver of business. With consumer inflation at a 40-year-high, most shoppers — rich or poor — will seek out the best prices, CEO Doug McMillon explained. "During periods of inflation like this, middle-income families, lower middle-income families, even wealthier families become...
The FBI is setting up a cryptocurrency-focussed unit that will work closely with another new team at the Justice Department. Seasoned prosecutor Eun Young Choi has been tapped to serve as the first director of the DoJ's...
Mastercard has attracted 16 high-profile technology companies to join the Partner Programme for its real-time money movement technology Mastercard Send. Mastercard Send is part of card scheme's multi-rail proposition, and enables people and organisations to send and...
Don't be surprised to see some exaggerated moves in gold as the market goes into a geopolitically-tensed long weekend, analysts told Kitco News. But the outlook for gold remains bullish as the precious metal tests $1,900 an ounce.
The Securities and Exchange Commission submitted a letter to a federal judge on Friday responding to allegations by Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the agency had “broken promises” and engaged in a “pattern of conduct” amounting to harassment after an earlier...
Two years ago, investors suddenly became amateur epidemiologists in an effort to determine the level of economic disruption wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the time, virologists themselves were deeply uncertain about the evolution of the virus, while testing capacity was too limited for sweeping conclusions to be drawn. Yet,...
Alex Spiro, Elon Musk’s lawyer, sent a letter to the SEC on behalf of Musk and Tesla arguing that the agency is “harassing” them and failed to transfer money to Tesla shareholders. Musk and the SEC have had a few run-ins with each other, rarely with a good outcome. Most...
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn warned red-hot inflation spells trouble for markets, as the government is incapable of controlling price increases. "It doesn't end happily," the Icahn Enterprises chairman told Bloomberg in a Wednesday interview. He questioned the Federal Reserve's unprecedented money-printing game, aimed at supporting the flow of credit to...
NEW YORK — St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard cautioned Thursday that without central bank action on interest rates, inflation could become an even more serious problem. “We’re at more risk now than we’ve been in a generation that this could get out of control,” he said during a...
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