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CNN  —  Dinosaurs are alive and well at the box office as Universal’s “Jurassic World Rebirth” trampled competitors, grossing $147 million domestically over five days of the Fourth of July weekend. The fourth installment of the “Jurassic World” series outperformed early estimates of nearly $80 million for the three days and $135 million for the five days. It nearly matched its predecessor from 2022, “Jurassic World Dominion,” which grossed $145 million in its first three days before raking in over $1 billion worldwide. “Jurassic World Rebirth” is another win for Hollywood, which has effectively rebounded from a sluggish start to…

Expect bitcoin to reach fresh all-time highs in the second half of the year as corporate treasuries accelerate their bitcoin buying sprees and Congress gets closer to passing crypto legislation, investors say. The cryptocurrency climbed nearly 30% in the second quarter although, strangely, many investors have called it a period of consolidation, with returns declining each month and bitcoin’s price remaining in the same narrow range for more than half the three months. It gained almost 15% in the first half of the year, compared to 45% in the same period a year ago. But Bitcoin is ready to fly…

President Donald Trump’s announcement of a U.S.-Vietnam trade deal and a solid June jobs report lifted stocks last week, but investors can still find plenty of opportunities to snap up names at attractive levels.The recommendations of top Wall Street analysts can help inform investors as they search for the stocks of companies with strong fundamentals and solid growth opportunities.  Here are three stocks favored by the Street’s top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance.Dell TechnologiesThis week’s first stock pick is Dell Technologies (DELL), a provider of IT hardware, software, and services.Following meetings with management,…

CNN  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said tariff letters will be sent to about 100 countries over the next several days, as the Trump administration’s 90-day tariff pause comes to an end Wednesday. “If you don’t move things along, then on August 1 you will boomerang back to your April 2 tariff level,” Bessent said about trading partners Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union with Dana Bash.” President Donald Trump has suggested the letters would include duty rates at the current 10% baseline, or as extensive as 70%. Bessent said Sunday the United States would not impose 70% tariff…

Four years ago, when people asked me which part of college I was most excited for, I always said having my own room.Yale’s dorms were a welcome change from the living conditions in my Brooklyn neighborhood. On the outside, the place my parents rented looked like any other two or three-family house, but inside, every floor was leased out to multiple families.My upbringing was many things: love and a chorus of voices that included a Vietnam War veteran, four children, and an expert crocheter. They were all my neighbors — many of them low-income. Every evening, we gathered for communal…

Shopping for outdoor lifestyle stuff is normally a quick way to burn a lot of cash.Whether at Dick’s Sporting Goods or REI, well-made apparel and gear usually come at a premium price — even with the occasional coupon or sale.My consumer experience with activewear (and inactivewear), shoes, and other accessories led me to believe the relationship between quality and price was somewhat fixed.That was before I discovered Sierra. Summer is in full swing at Sierra. Dominick Reuter/Business Insider I gave my local store in Madison, Wisconsin, a look for the first time a few years ago.I’ve done plenty of shopping at…

Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. BI’s Jake Epstein spent the night aboard a US Navy destroyer traveling from England to France. He said the space was tight, as he got a taste of what daily life is like.By the way, you can get the latest on modern warfare, defense tech innovations, and more with BI’s new Defense Flash delivered to your inbox every week. Sign up here!On the agenda today:But first: BI has the receipts on the impact of AI data.If this was forwarded…

This is an as-told-to interview based on a conversation with Antara Dave, a senior product designer at Microsoft who leads user experience for AI tools. She’s worked at the company since 2022. This story has been edited for length and clarity.Microsoft was and still is my dream company.I applied one year before I got this job and was rejected. They gave some basic feedback on what I needed to learn, so I focused on that. I switched jobs at the company I was working, Home Depot, to get more of the real experience in design they were looking for.When I…

Alison Leiby remembers feeling her heart beat harder when she saw the email without a subject line appear on her phone.It was from Anna Wintour, longtime editor of American Vogue.As Leiby tapped on the message and waited for it to load, she felt a bolt of anxiety and thought, “Oh, God. What is about to happen?”To her relief, Wintour’s two-sentence message offered congratulations on a one-woman, off-Broadway show Leiby created and starred in. Wintour had been in the audience on opening night in May 2022, Leiby told Business Insider.While she didn’t need to worry about the contents of the message,…

Though Morgan Stanley’s Innovation Lab sits firmly in Manhattan’s Financial District, I hardly saw any of the finance bros who dot the streets outside during my recent tour.I didn’t know quite what to expect ahead of my visit — robots analyzing market moves? intricate gadgets? — and Megan Brewer, the head of firmwide market innovation and labs, tempered my wildest expectations when she described the space as “effectively a very large data center.” The lab, she said, gives people “all the infrastructure that is needed to test ideas in a secure, scalable fashion.”Morgan Stanley employees who want to experiment with…