No Picture
Trading Ideas

Lisa Brennan-Jobs said she would give her father's billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation if she could

Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ upcoming memoir, “Small Fry,” describes her relationship with her father, Apple founder Steve Jobs. Brennan-Jobs received an inheritance after her father’s death, but his $20 billion fortune is controlled by Laurene Powell Jobs. …read more […]

No Picture
Trading Ideas

Robin Leach of ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ dies

Robin Leach, whose voice crystallized the opulent 1980s on TV’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” died Friday. Leach’s family said through a public relations firm that he died in Las Vegas, where he made his home. Leach had a stroke in November while on vacation in Mexico that led to a months-long recovery, much of which he spent at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio before returning to Las Vegas in June. …read more […]

No Picture
Trading Ideas

U.S. Fed's Powell defends policy of gradual interest rate hikes

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday defended the U.S. central bank’s push to raise interest rates as healthy for the economy and signaled more hikes were coming despite President Donald Trump’s criticism of higher borrowing costs. The Fed, which began to tighten monetary policy in 2015, has raised rates twice this year and is widely expected to do so again next month and in December. Powell made no mention of Trump’s criticism of the Fed’s monetary policy. …read more […]

No Picture
Trading Ideas

Buy Netflix (NFLX) Stock After International Expansion Upgrade?

Shares of Netflix (NFLX) surged over 4% Friday on the back of an analyst upgrade, which helped cap off a strong week for the streaming TV titan amid what had been a dismal post-earnings stretch. So let’s take a look at the reasoning for the upgrade, along with some other Netflix news, before we see if it might be time to buy Netflix stock. …read more […]

No Picture
Business News

Papa John’s taps investment banks amid pressure from founder: sources

Papa John’s International Inc , the world’s third-largest pizza delivery company, has hired Bank of America Corp and Lazard Ltd to help find ways to stabilize the restaurant chain, which has come under pressure from its founder John Schnatter, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

…read more […]