Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) bought another 811 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for roughly $65.5 million last week, resuming its accumulation after a brief pause the week before. What the Filing Shows Strategy disclosed in an 8-K filing Monday that it acquired the Bitcoin between Oct. 26 and Nov. 1 at an average price of $80,846 per coin. The […]
ExxonMobil Cashes In on Refining Boom, Raises Dividend
ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation (NYSE:XOM) stock rose in premarket trading Friday after the oil giant reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and revenue, benefiting from stronger refining margins amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries. The company also reported record year-to-date refining performance, including its highest global fuels utilization outside the Middle East, […]
Bill Ackman’s Test for a Great Stock: Should Be ‘Enormously Valuable’ Even if Markets Shut for 20 Years
Bill Ackman, the founder and CEO of Pershing Square USA, Ltd. (NYSE:PSUS), says investors should focus on businesses capable of creating significant value over decades, even when markets temporarily shut. Ackman, during a podcast interview with Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, published on Wednesday, said a great company was one investors could […]
Strive Eyes $1 Billion Raise as Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying
Strive (NASDAQ:ASST) is raising up to $1 billion through its SATS preferred stock, while Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) left its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holdings unchanged last week. What Strive Plans to Do With the $1 Billion Strive announced Monday that it can issue and sell shares of its 15.00% Series A Perpetual SATS Preferred Stock through an […]
Kinder Morgan Analysts Boost Their Forecasts Following Upbeat Q3 Earnings
Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI) posted upbeat financial results for the third quarter after the market close on Wednesday. Kinder Morgan reported third-quarter revenue of $4.53 billion, beating the consensus estimate of $4.38 billion, according to Benzinga Pro. The energy infrastructure company reported adjusted earnings of 35 cents per share for the quarter, beating estimates of […]
Ken Griffin Says We’re ‘Almost Certainly’ in an AI Bubble, Recalls How Past Bubbles Created Market Leaders
Citadel’s CEO Ken Griffin said that investors are “almost certainly” in the middle of an AI bubble right now. In an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday at the Future of Global Markets Conference in New York, Griffin said, “Any radical transformation of our economy is generally intertwined with a bubble.” The billionaire spoke about the […]
We Asked ChatGPT, Grok and Claude for 1 Stock to Buy This Week. No One Picked Tesla.
Three AI chatbots were asked for one stock to buy this week, and each came back with a different company from a different corner of the market. ChatGPT chose GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE), Grok chose Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Claude chose Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO). The picks share one thread. All three companies report quarterly results […]
Apple Stock Hits Record High as iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Sell Out in Minutes
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares rose over 2% in premarket trading Friday, according to Benzinga Pro, after an AppleInsider report said the iPhone Duo sold out moments after pre-orders opened, pushing the stock to a new all-time high today. Apple was rising even as the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) slipped 0.09% in premarket trading. […]
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Tesla Bull Urges Investors To Do Their Own Research: ‘…CEOs Are Paid To Be Optimistic…’
December 30, 2024
The Future Fund LLC Managing Partner Gary Black on Sunday urged investors to do their own research instead of relying on comments from company management before making investment decisions. What Happened: The Achilles heel of many smart investors is they accept what company managements tell them rather than do their own independent research. Black said […]
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