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A man wearing a protective mask sits on top of the Charging Bull sculpture near Wall St. amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 19, 2020 in New York City, United States. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Company: Evolent Health Inc. (EVH) Business: Evolent is a health-care delivery and payment company. It supports health systems and

It’s been a great August, up 6% for the S&P 500, the best August since 1986. But then again, it was a great July.  And a great June. May was pretty good, too, and April was downright eye-popping. The Summer Rally (S&P 500 Monthly Returns) April: up 12.7% May: up 4.5% June: up 1.8% July:

The New York Stock Exchange has won the approval from regulators to allow companies to issue new shares through direct listings, creating a cheaper alternative to the traditional initial public offering. The Securities and Exchange Commission said in an order Wednesday evening that it approved a new type of direct listing where companies can simultaneously

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday praised the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell, for updating their approach to monetary policy to help the U.S. economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic.  “Powell is on the side of the bulls,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.”  The Fed earlier Thursday said it would be willing to

HSBC Global Asset Management and climate change advisory and investment firm Pollination Group are teaming up to launch a series of billion-dollar funds that will target “natural capital.”  The new venture, which is the largest of its kind, will be called HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management. The funds will target institutional investors including pension funds

The rally on Wall Street would not be derailed for long even if there were another spike in coronavirus cases this fall, Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel told CNBC on Tuesday. “It’s not going to be a serious correction, not anywhere again down near those March lows. A little pause if we get that wave, but I

Satellite antenna builder Kymeta announced Tuesday that it closed a significant new round of fundraising led by Bill Gates, as the start-up looks to increase manufacturing and sales of its mobile communications product. “At the end of the day, the problem that our customers want to solve is highly reliable broadband service,” Kymeta executive chairman

Tesla’s rapid run higher, which has seen the shares gain nearly 400% this year, has left one notable investor confused. “I really can’t explain Tesla,” Joel Greenblatt, co-CIO at Gotham Asset Management, said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I think there’s a lot of speculation in the market and I think some of it’s there. I

Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., holds up a Titan C CPU and GeForce GTX Titan X graphics card . David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stocks have delivered very impressive gains recently. Indeed, indexes are circling record levels, boosted by strong second quarter earning reports and reopening optimism. That’s despite

Jeffrey Ubben Source: BusinessWire Jeffrey Ubben is betting on widescale adoption of clean energy through his new fund Inclusive Capital Partners, which he launched in June after stepping away from ValueAct to focus on sustainable investing full time. His fund is the lead investor in a company being formed through a partnership between Schneider Electric

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday there is more pain in the U.S. economy than what is reflected in the stock market’s robust recovery from coronavirus-era lows.  “I’m thinking, wait a second, don’t get too optimistic. I think it’s our nature to be optimistic,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” ”We like the fact that the

An artist’s rendition of Dynetics’ HLS lander on the Moon’s surface. Dynetics The race to return U.S. astronauts to the Moon has a dark horse seeking an upset. A few months ago NASA awarded three teams with contracts to develop competing options for the agency to use to deliver people to the lunar surface as

People stand in line outside the Apple store on Fifth Avenue as New York City moves into Phase 2 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic on June 30, 2020. Noam Galai | Getty Images Apple is one of the big tech engines pulling the market higher, but it is unique in

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday that Walmart is a “remarkable juggernaut” but it won’t be able to keep up the blistering growth that it saw in the second quarter without another coronavirus stimulus package. “I think the company needs to be a little cautious because unless there’s another deal from Washington they won’t be able

Barrick Gold mining ullstein bild | Getty Images Barrick Gold‘s stock is popping more than 7% in premarket trading Monday after legendary investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a stake in the gold miner’s stock.  Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway added a $562 million position in Barrick Gold in the second quarter, SEC filings showed on Friday.

Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-Founder and CEO, speaking at CNBC’s @Work conference in San Francisco on November 4, 2019. Arun Nevader | CNBC With the S&P 500 back up near record highs, it can be a challenge to find stocks that still have further room to rally. The danger is that valuations can become inflated, leading

The entrance from the elevators, designed to resemble a tunnel entering a stadium, is pictured at the new DraftKings office in Boston on March 25, 2019. David L. Ryan | The Boston Globe via Getty Images DraftKings sank more than 5% in premarket trading Friday after it said its loss for the second quarter widened

Apple and Tesla have both announced stock splits recently and CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday revealed 10 stocks of companies that he would like to see follow suit to reduce high trading prices. The stock split, in which a company increases substantially its number of outstanding shares while preserving its market value, will attract and give

Nima Ghamsari, co-founder and chief executive officer of Blend, speaks during the Sooner Than You Think conference in Brooklyn, New York, Oct. 16, 2018. Alex Flynn | Bloomberg | Getty Images Digital lending start-up Blend raised $75 million in fresh funding amid surging demand for streamlined mortgage applications during the coronavirus pandemic. The move values the

A worker wearing a protective mask adjusts a torque wrench inside the service area at a Harley-Davidson dealership in Oakland, California, on Thursday, July 16, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The dark side of good earnings: Companies are talking about turning “furloughs” into permanent layoffs. You knew this was coming. It’s