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In an interview with the New York Times published last night Musk said he was overworked, that last year was the most excruciating of his career, and that “the worst was yet to come.” …read more […]

Google’s CEO says the company is not close to launching a search product in China. Yahoo’s Seana Smith, Andy Serwer, Jen Rogers, and Dan Howley discuss. …read more […]

The CNBC host Jim Cramer says Tesla CEO Elon Musk should take a medical leave. Tesla shares tumbled Friday in the wake of Musk’s interview with The New York Times. The CNBC host Jim Cramer thinks Elon Musk should take a medical leave from Tesla. …read more […]

Turkey’s battered lira weakened 4 percent on Friday after a Turkish court rejected an American pastor’s appeal for release, drawing a stiff rebuke from President Donald Trump who said the United States would not take the detention “sitting down”. The case of Andrew Brunson, an evangelical Christian missionary from North Carolina who has lived in Turkey for two decades, has become a flashpoint of tension between Washington and Ankara and has accelerated a currency crisis that has richocheted through global financial markets. The lira has lost nearly 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year, sparking …read more […]

Multi-faceted technology giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) recently reported fourth quarter numbers that were quite good and Cisco stock traded mildly higher on the news. It was a double beat quarter with a healthy guide, and featured the best revenue growth the company has seen in years, proof that Cisco’s top-line growth narrative is steadily improving thanks to increased traction in secular growth markets like cloud and cybersecurity. Specifically, higher component costs are outweighing higher product prices, and gross margins are dropping. …read more […]

U.S. Steel plans to spend at least $750 million to upgrade a century-old steel mill along northwestern Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Company and government officials said Thursday that the project will help preserve Gary Works’ nearly 3,900 steelworker jobs, and could help ensure the 112-year-old mill lasts another century. The company had been criticized for not spending enough on equipment at mills such as Gary Works during the steel industry’s recent downturn. …read more […]

UBS sees bright futures for America’s two biggest aerospace and defense titans. …read more […]

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, spoke with its employees about the possibility of the company closing to launch a search engine in China. Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Rick Newman and Dan Howley discuss that and more. …read more […]

What do you do when your CEO confesses that he’s cracking under the stress of his job? …read more […]

Is (GILD) Outperforming Other Medical Stocks This Year? …read more […]

As Tesla Inc.’s “going private” chaos turns more ominous, investors are taking a step back. Shares of the electric vehicle maker dropped 3 percent in early trading on Friday, and are now down more than 14 percent since Elon Musk tweeted last week about his plans to take the company private, taking the market by surprise. The latest turn in the drama came late on Thursday, when the New York Times reported a teary-eyed Musk saying that no one had seen or reviewed the tweet before he posted it while driving himself to the airport. …read more […]

Nvidia warned on its second-quarter conference call that it won’t make money from cryptocurrency going forward. Nvidia’s actual crypto-specific revenue was lower than expected. The chipmaker cut its revenue guidance for the third quarter. …read more […]

Kroger’s (KR) partnership with Alibaba to launch Our Brands via the latter’s Tmall Platform is in response to Walmart and Amazon’s growing dominance in online grocery sales. …read more […]

Listening to some commonly heard advice cost me more than $23,000. Here’s how you can learn from my mistake. …read more […]

A 17% drop so far in 2018 has this 6%-yielding stock looking rather attractive. …read more […]