Altimeter Capital Chairman and CEO Brad Gerstner said his hedge fund sold stakes in United Airlines and Expedia, adding that easy gains from the rebound in travel stocks have been realized. “On July 1 this year after a big run-up in United and Expedia, we distributed those returns to investors. … I still think the

Acorns president David Hijirida Courtesy: Mo Osborne | Acorns Investing and savings app Acorns has hired a former Amazon executive and fintech CEO to lead day-to-day operations ahead of the start-up’s debut as a public company, CNBC has learned. The company is set to announce Wednesday that it named David Hijirida as president, according to

Investors watch an electric screen displaying stock price figures at a stock exchange hall on February 18, 2021 in Shanghai, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Beijing is eyeing new rules that would restrict domestic internet companies from going public in the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Chinese regulators are

Rocket 3.2 lifts off on December 15, 2020 from Kodiak, Alaska. John Kraus / Astra Publicly traded rocket builder Astra will go for its first launch of the year later this month, aiming to carry a Pentagon payload to orbit. “The Space Force is right now lined up to do a demonstration launch with a

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

Financial services for cryptocurrency holders have been growing as a subset of the fintech industry for years. Now, crypto 401(k)s are entering the mix. A small 401(k) provider called ForUsAll is now allowing participants to allocate up to 5% of their retirement funds into cryptocurrency.  The offering includes 50 different crypto assets including bitcoin, which

Google announced last week 60% of its workforce will work around three days a week in the office, 20% in new office locations, and 20% from home. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images If 2020 taught us that we were all naïve about the possibility of the world being brought to

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday he believes there is “rabid money” interested in upcoming technology IPOs, but he urged younger investors not to chase after DoorDash once the third-party delivery company goes public. “When people know the brand, the younger investors just say, ‘You know what, get me some,'” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” “DoorDash

Day traders have terrible track records.  Academics who study stock pickers have long observed that the vast majority of professional money managers – about 85% – underperform their benchmarks over a multiyear period. Now those professionals are turning their sights on retail day traders, warning that the same poor results apply to them as well. 

Guggenheim Partner’s Scott Minerd told CNBC that Wednesday’s rally on Wall Street makes sense, despite the uncertain outcome in the presidential race between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. “I was always of the opinion, regardless of the outcome, short of getting anarchy in the street, that this would be good for stocks,” the

Source: Texas Instruments | Wikipedia Volatility has once again returned to Wall Street. Swinging between positive and negative territory in the previous five sessions, the market’s movements have largely been tied to updates on the ongoing stimulus talks. Working for months to pass additional stimulus measures, both sides of the aisle are making a last-ditch

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones has turned more bullish on bitcoin, calling it the best inflation hedge. “I like bitcoin even more now than I did then. I think we are in the first inning of bitcoin and it’s got a long way to go,” Jones said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday. He

Integrated circuits on a circuit board. The semiconductor industry has been in focus during the U.S.-China trade war. filonmar | E+ | Getty Images Company: ON Semiconductor Corp (ON) Business: A premier semiconductor company that focuses on power and sensor products. ON Semi’s segments include (i) Power Solutions Group, which offers a range of discrete,

Dillard’s department store. Source: Zereshk | Wikipedia Shares of Dillard’s gained 27% on Monday — at one point during the session jumping more than 40% — after one of Warren Buffett’s investing lieutenants disclosed a personal stake in the embattled retailer. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ted Weschler, who is an

Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein sees speculative elements across markets for stocks and bonds. Blankfein, a billionaire who served as Goldman’s CEO from 2006 to 2018, said Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that low interest rates were essentially creating free money for big institutional investors. After keeping rates low for years after the 2008

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday downplayed the stock market decline on President Donald Trump testing positive for the coronavirus, suggesting investors may want to consider buying on pullbacks. “I’m not saying this is much to do about nothing,” Cramer said on “Squawk Box.” “I am saying that people should have a buy list ready.” Stock futures were sharply

An indoor farming start-up that heralds itself as the future of agriculture and has Martha Stewart on its board announced Tuesday it is going public through a reverse merger, the latest in a series of blank-check deals during the coronavirus pandemic.   Kentucky-based AppHarvest is merging with special purpose acquisition company Novus Capital Corp., while picking up $475 million

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, speaks at the 2019 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on November 19, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images With all due respect to the late, and great, Tom Petty, when it comes to today’s stock market averages, it’s “the weighting that is the hardest part.”

CNBC’s Jim Cramer, who has been warning people for weeks to lock-in some stock profits, advised investors to look for places to possibly buy in the carnage of Monday morning’s sharp market selloff. “We’re down on something that nobody really understands,” said Cramer, playing down the worries about another coronavirus lockdown in Europe. He said

Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett, the man who pioneered buy and hold investing, just made quite a fast billion bucks from a type of investment he once mocked. Berkshire Hathaway bought $250 million worth of Snowflake stock at the IPO price and an additional 4.04 million shares from another stockholder at the

An antenna for a satellite ground station Amazon Microsoft is looking to challenge Amazon in offering a service that connects satellites directly to the company’s cloud computing network, according to documents the company filed with the Federal Communications Commission last month The effort shows how the two largest providers of cloud infrastructure — data centers in

Shoppers walking into a Lululemon store Scott Mlyn | CNBC How do investors pick stocks poised to outperform in the current environment? Stocks are tumbling in a tech-led selloff after reaching record highs over the last few weeks. However, even after the pullback, the S&P 500 has still surged almost 19% on a one-year basis.

Elon Musk Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Tesla shares slid 9% on Thursday, building on the stock’s recent losses after the company’s largest outside shareholder reduced its position, and after the automaker said it would raise up to $5 billion in a new share offering. With Thursday’s decline, the stock is more than

It’s been a great August, up 6% for the S&P 500, the best August since 1986. But then again, it was a great July. And a great June. May was pretty good, too, and April was downright eye-popping. The Summer Rally (S&P 500 Monthly Returns) April: up 12.7% May: up 4.5% June: up 1.8% July:

Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., holds up a Titan C CPU and GeForce GTX Titan X graphics card . David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stocks have delivered very impressive gains recently. Indeed, indexes are circling record levels, boosted by strong second quarter earning reports and reopening optimism. That’s despite

Kevin O’Leary told CNBC on Thursday that he does not believe Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would impair the stock market if the former vice president were to defeat President Donald Trump in November.  “I don’t think Biden is going to hurt the markets at all if he gets elected. His hands are tied,” the

DraftKings sank more than 5% in premarket trading Friday after it said its loss for the second quarter widened despite strong revenues and a turnaround in user engagement. The Boston-based gambling company posted a second-quarter loss of $161.4 million, or 55 cents per share, compared to a loss of $28.11 million, or 15 cents per

A worker wearing a protective mask adjusts a torque wrench inside the service area at a Harley-Davidson dealership in Oakland, California, on Thursday, July 16, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The dark side of good earnings: Companies are talking about turning “furloughs” into permanent layoffs. You knew this was coming. It’s

Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC Investors are preparing for a variety of news in Berkshire Hathaway’s second-quarter earnings report this weekend, ranging from the possibility of record overall net income to weaker operating results from the conglomerate’s industrials companies. Wall Street also hopes that Berkshire, which is expected to report per-share earnings of $2.12