The “Fast Money” traders shared their moves for the first hours of the trading day. Pete Najarian was a buyer of Boeing. Brian Kelly was a buyer of TJX Companies. Dan Nathan was a seller of Wal-Mart. Guy Adami was a buyer of Las Vegas Sands. Trader disclosure: On August 15, 2017, the following stocks […]
Read moreAn unaired episode of Game of Thrones has appeared on the internet this morning. Episode six, due to be aired on Sunday, appeared first on file sharing sites and a Reddit post. Reddit users spotted that the episode was accidentally aired by HBO Nordic in Spain for an hour before it was removed. The episode […]
Read moreGoldman Sachs added Biogen to its Americas Conviction List, highlighting the biotech’s lead pipeline Alzheimer’s drug as possibly one of the first to successfully prevent or slow the progression of the disease. “Biogen has a broad Alzheimer’s disease portfolio, which, if successful, would allow it to access a greenfield, blockbuster market opportunity,” wrote Goldman analyst […]
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Google’s spacecraft challenge offers finalists an extra $4.75m as it extends mission deadline
Google Lunar XPRIZE, the space exploration competition sponsored by Google, is offering additional prize money to finalists who can complete two in-space missions as it extends program’s deadline to 2018. Entrants whose space crafts can complete one orbit around the moon or enter a direct descent towards it, can secure $1.75 million, while those that […]
Read moreOne might say that Scientific Games shareholders have hit the jackpot. Out of all the stocks in the broad S&P 1500 index with more than $2 billion in market capitalization, the best performer this year is Scientific Games. A provider of technologies and services for casinos, lotteries and digital games, the company has seen its […]
Read moreTencent Holdings Ltd, China’s biggest gaming and social media firm by revenue, trumped forecasts to post its best-ever quarterly results, driven by higher income from smartphone games, payments and online advertising. The most valuable firm listed in Asia – which is riding a wave of success stemming from the popularity of its social-network based mobile […]
Read moreApple is officially open for business in Hollywood. The company is telling content makers it wants to spend $1 billion on its own stuff over the next year. That’s music to studios’ ears, and a tune they have been expecting for some time — especially after Apple hired two top Sony TV executives in June. […]
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UK defends ‘frictionless’ post-Brexit Irish border as mutually beneficial
The British government has defended its plans to establish a “frictionless” border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic post-Brexit, saying that the plans are both workable and mutually beneficial. In a white paper published Wednesday, the government said that there should be no border posts separating Britain from its only EU land neighbor and […]
Read moreAtlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said Wednesday the Great Recession caused people to distrust long-term investments. “There is a psychology going on here, where the Great Recession was so deep and it scarred people so significantly that they are reluctant to trust in long-term investments,” Bostic said in a wide-ranging interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” […]
Read moreFormer Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told his bribery trial on Wednesday that he had been framed by a close lieutenant of President Vladimir Putin into accepting a payment of $2 million. The accusation against Igor Sechin, head of Russia’s biggest oil company, thrust into the open simmering tensions between rival Kremlin clans – a […]
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