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[ad_1] TechCrunch All Stage 2025 is almost here — In 2 days, the doors swing open at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. If you’re a founder or investor, this is your last shot to lock in the lowest ticket prices before they vanish at the door. This isn’t your average startup conference. TC All Stage is where high-growth startups get sharper, faster, and more fundable — in just one day. Whether you’re pre-seed or preparing for an IPO, this is the room to be in. Savings of up to $475 are here until the event kicks off on July 15 at…
[ad_1] CNN — It was “up, up and away” for James Gunn’s “Superman” reboot, which finished No. 1 at the box office with a $122 million opening weekend. Warner Bros. Pictures’ latest blockbuster beat early estimates of around $90 million for the weekend and surpassed last weekend’s top hit “Jurassic World Rebirth,” which grossed $40 million this weekend. Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN. “Superman is on the Mount Rushmore of superheroes. All eyes were on this movie,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore. “So, this is the gift that hopefully will keep on giving for…
[ad_1] Optimism about the strong growth opportunities presented by the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom has been tempered by tariff-related distractions and macroeconomic challenges.Against this uncertain backdrop, investors looking for consistent income can add attractive dividend-paying stocks to their portfolios, and studying top Wall Street analysts can offer useful insights into picking the right dividend payers.Here are three dividend-paying stocks, highlighted by Wall Street’s top pros, as tracked by TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performanceConocoPhillipsOil and gas exploration and production company ConocoPhillips (COP) is this week’s first dividend pick. The company distributed $2.5 billion to shareholders in the…
[ad_1] For Tesla supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology , selling battery packs to major electric companies is just the start of its ambitions. “We believe the company is not just a hardware manufacturer, but it will also be a software ecosystem provider,” Morgan Stanley analysts led by Jack Lu said in a report Wednesday. They pointed to CATL’s artificial intelligence-powered tools for monitoring batteries on the road and giving early safety warnings. “As AI develops, the ecosystem will likely further evolve and provide more value added soft services to customers,” the Morgan Stanley analysts said, noting that improved safety will also…
[ad_1] Tesla and Moderna are among the stocks JPMorgan advises to sell short heading into the second half of the year. Investors have been largely pushing past the threat of ongoing tariffs placed by the Trump administration on U.S. trading partners. The S & P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite each hit a fresh high on Thursday, illustrating how far the market has come since its significant losses in early April. Still, the S & P 500 ended the week at a loss, a sign of how sentiment remains uneasy amid unpredictable trade policy. As the second half gets underway,…
[ad_1] It’s that time again. The second-quarter earnings season kicks off this week with 37 companies that are members of the S & P 500 index set to report. Among the most notable companies outlining how they performed in the quarter ended June 30: big banks, led by JPMorgan Chase , the largest in the land, and streaming giant Netflix. Expectations heading into the season are muted as companies navigate an ever-changing tariff landscape. According to FactSet, second-quarter S & P 500 earnings are expected to have grown 4.8% from the same period a year ago. If that’s the case,…
[ad_1] Have you heard the news? A new contagion is turning formerly healthy private equity firms into the walking dead. It’s not fungal, like in “The Last of Us,” a virus, like in “28 Days Later,” nor a magical reanimation like the original Haitian Vodou Zombis.Instead, it’s the result of a dealmaking slump, pickier investors, and macroeconomic conditions that have turned some private-equity firms into glorified estate sales, auctioning off their dusty holdings before closing up shop.There are many definitions of a zombie fund — but no matter how you slice it, it can be bad for your career.To some,…
[ad_1] CNN — If tomato prices jump because of new tariffs on the Mexican-grown produce, restaurant owner Teresa Razo says her businesses could go bust. “I give it three months, and then we go bankrupt,” said Teresa Razo, owner of two Argentine-Italian restaurants in Southern California. On July 14, a nearly three-decade-old US-Mexico trade agreement may give way to 20.9% tariffs on most Mexican tomato imports. That could mean higher prices for Americans at the grocery store, at the pizza parlor — anywhere that uses tomatoes. And for some small businesses, higher prices could close them down entirely. The tomato…
[ad_1] Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we spotlight some of our top stories and bring you behind the scenes of our newsroom. This week, we put a big question to BI readers: Can millennial dads really have it all?Many fathers told us they’re feeling burned out trying to excel at work and be fully present at home. I get it. As a dad of two young kids, I do my best to be an active, present, and equal parenting partner. But I also see, every day, just how much of the heavy lifting my wife does.What’s your take…
[ad_1] Marc Benioff said that while artificial intelligence is drastically reshaping Salesforce, it doesn’t mean that it will wipe out white-collar workers.”That isn’t how I see AI,” Benioff, Salesforce’s CEO, told Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson during a recent onstage interview at the 2025 AI for Good Global Summit. “Maybe they have AI, I don’t have. But in the AI I have, it’s not going to be some huge mass layoff of white-collar workers, it is a radical augmentation of the workforce.”Benioff’s broader view of AI contrasts with how other in tech view the next decade. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who…