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The Robinhood application is displayed in the App Store on an Apple Inc. iPhone in an arranged photograph taken in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The coronavirus market downturn spurred young people — in some cases, for the first time in their lives — to get

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya argued Tuesday on CNBC that Jeff Bezos is a better investor than Warren Buffett, pointing to the Amazon CEO and founder’s history of reinvesting in the business.  “People used to lambaste Jeff Bezos for not being profitable, but when you looked under the hood, he was the single best investor of our generation,

Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic (C) poses next to George T. Whitesides (R), CEO of Virgin Galactic Holdings after ringing the First Trade Bell to commemorate the company’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on October 28, 2019. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Virgin Group founder Sir Richard

Paul Tudor Jones speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Billionaire hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones said Monday the economy would be in a “Second Depression” if the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t get contained for another year. “If a year from now, we are still in the same

Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Bill Ackman has found another typical investment for him: a high quality business with predictable cash flows, durable growth and a catalyst in the coronavirus to separate it from other stocks. Company: Restaurant Brands International Inc. (QSR) Business: A quick service restaurant

Nora Tam | South China Morning Post | Getty Images Tesla stock has risen more than 7% since Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tweet a week ago that the company’s shares were priced “too high.”  Shares of Tesla closed down down 10.3% last Friday on Musk’s tweet, but have quickly recovered those losses and then some –

The stock market’s coronavirus-driven bottom in late March is “definitely going to be the low” during the crisis, Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel told CNBC on Friday.  In fact, Siegel said the massive monetary policy response from the Federal Reserve, along with additional progress on treatments and possible vaccines for Covid-19, could really boost stocks next year.

Mehmet Ali Ozcan | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images A rally in bitcoin led the cryptocurrency market higher ahead of a major technical event for the digital coin and as industry participants report an increased interest from institutional investors. Bitcoin crossed $10,000 on Friday morning Singapore time, the first time it has hit that price

Peloton machine Source: Peloton Many on Wall Street were convinced the usual playbook would occur when this market and economic downturn hit.  Bubble-like tech stocks that led the way up would get crushed as a bear market exposed their hype and sent stock speculators scrambling. But the opposite has happened.  The names skeptics used to

A Boeing 747 cargo freighter belonging to the Atlas Air flies into the clouds after lifting off from Hong Kong International Airport, on 23 October 2017, in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. S3studio | Getty Images Not all airlines are reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. Cargo airlines are cashing in on rush for medical supplies and

Lloyd Blankfein, the ex-Goldman Sachs CEO whose bank accepted bailout funds during the financial crisis, said that large companies should be “very reluctant” to take taxpayer money amid the coronavirus pandemic.  “Big companies should be very reluctant to take government money,” Blankfein said Thursday on CNBC’s Squawk Box in response to a question about how

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district of lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, April 26, 2020. Jeena Moon | Reuters With one-third of S&P 500 companies declining to provide guidance, picking winners and losers has become a very delicate business. How

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that investors cannot ignore the rising popularity of plant-based meat products.  “This movement is happening. You’ve got to get on the bus or … get left behind,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.”  Cramer acknowledged there are not huge sales just yet for a company like Beyond Meat, which after-the-bell Tuesday

Naguib Sawiris, billionaire and chairman of Orascom Investment Holding. Sima Diab | Bloomberg | Getty Images Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris says he would buy airlines, going against fellow billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who announced that Berkshire Hathaway sold all its airline stocks at the firm’s annual meeting on Saturday.  Sawiris, chairman and CEO of Orascom Investment

Many companies are being hurt by social distancing safety rules due to the coronavirus and investors may want to reevaluate whether to own their stocks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “Social distancing is going to be the answer why you have to sell certain stocks,” Cramer said. For companies that need to invest heavily to help

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has sold all its airline stocks, but retail investors at TD Ameritrade were buying them in April, according to JJ Kinahan, the firm’s chief market strategist.  “Nobody in their right mind normally fades Mr. Buffett, but with that being said, I think people are buying these and saying, ‘OK, this has to be a longer-time-frame

CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned Monday that the U.S. economy may be too weak right now to handle another trade fight with China and discouraged the Trump administration from imposing a new wave of tariffs against Beijing. Cramer also drew a comparison to the Great Depression, saying that to hike tariffs against China now would be

Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. David A. Grogan | CNBC Warren Buffett made a lot of news at Berkshire Hathaway‘s first virtual annual meeting on Saturday, including revealing that he sold all his airline stocks and didn’t see any value in any major acquisitions amid the coronavirus pullback in stocks. The 89-year-old

Carl Icahn at the 6th annual CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference on September 13, 2016. Heidi Gutman | CNBC Carl Icahn knows the oil and gas industry very well and has arguably made more of his fortune in this industry than any other single industry. His next energy bet could pay off through a

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk, right, speak to press in front of the Crew Dragon that is being prepared for the Demo-2 mission. NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes the billions his agency has invested in Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been well worth it as the company prepares

A cyclist passes a boarded up store during the coronavirus pandemic on April 28, 2020 in New York City. John Lamparski | Getty Images April’s 12% rally in the S&P 500 has been based largely on hopes for a reopening of the U.S. economy, but if you want to know how fragile the reopening may

Stocks on Wall Street have reached levels that are “too hot” for Jim Cramer‘s liking. After the market completed its best month of trading in more than three decades, the host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” said he is worried about its near-term trajectory. “We’re now at plus 7.2% on the S&P short-range oscillator. That’s the

A Wells Fargo logo is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto Chris Helgren | Reuters Wells Fargo, one of the largest home lenders in the U.S., said it it stepping away from the market for home equity lines of credit because of uncertainty tied to the coronavirus pandemic.  Here’s the statement

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Peter Parks | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk is having issues with conference calls lately. Thursday afternoon, the SpaceX CEO unexpectedly spoke up during a NASA conference call on Thursday, after the agency’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine was asked about Musk’s recent comments on the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district of lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, April 26, 2020. Jeena Moon | Reuters As encouraging as the market comeback this month has been, Wall Street has little faith in it. A leveling out of

A United Parcel Service worker delivers packages on April 29, 2020 in New York City. Stephanie Keith | Getty Images Half of the S&P 500 companies have reported earnings for the first quarter and this has been the strangest earnings season imaginable.   Consider: Global activity has ground to a halt in some sectors, but

Jim Cramer Scott Mlyn | CNBC CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that positive news from Gilead Sciences about a potential treatment for the coronavirus marked a turning point in the fight against Covid-19. “What I regard this as is the beginning of the end of the true nightmare, which is that it’s a death sentence,” Cramer said on

Investors should look to sectors that lately have been “completely eviscerated” as the U.S. economy seeks to recover from the coronavirus crisis, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson told CNBC on Tuesday.  “We’re bullish overall, and we just think there’s more upside in potentially some of the laggard areas,” Wilson said on “Fast Money.” “That’s not saying anything bad

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday doubled down on his preference for stock picking over index investing. The former hedge fund manager presented a list of market bright spots that span more than one dozen industries he said are working in this coronavirus-plagued market. “You want to remember this list the next time the market rolls

Charles Munger David A. Grogan | CNBC Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, will not be taking questions at the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting alongside Warren Buffett as the coronavirus pandemic forces changes to the widely anticipated event. Instead, it will be Greg Abel, Berkshire’s vice chairman of non-insurance operations, taking previously submitted questions