The U.K. government will go to the country’s highest court Tuesday in a bid to force open a £475 million ($640 million) charity fund set up 90 years ago with the intention of paying off the national debt. The “National Fund” was opened in 1928 by an anonymous benefactor who donated £500,000, but on the […]
Read moreA concerning disconnect may be emerging between equities and the market’s measure of volatility, according to one portfolio manager. Dennis Davitt of Harvest Volatility Management told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” he’s carefully watching the Cboe Volatility Index, widely considered the market’s “fear gauge” as it measures equities’ expected volatility over 30 days. Here are his reasons […]
Read moreAirbus said on Tuesday it had taken steps to comply with a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on subsidies for its A350 and A380 jets, which has seen the United States and Europe trade legal blows on behalf of Boeing and Airbus. The move comes after the United States won the right to seek sanctions […]
Read moreGwynne Shotwell was a teenager when she met a woman working as a mechanical engineer. Now the president and COO of SpaceX, the most disruptive space company in the world, told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan that this female role model is why she came to be where she is today. “I loved what she was doing, […]
Read moreThe bond market is signaling an upcoming correction and investors should sell their shares in listed companies, a strategist told CNBC Tuesday. Borrowing costs have gone up over the last few weeks, with the yield on both the 10-year U.S. Treasury note and the two-year bond reaching multiyear highs last Friday. Higher yields, which move […]
Read moreIndigo Agriculture CEO David Perry grew up raising corn and cows on his family’s farm in Arkansas. While he wasn’t the type to set up a lemonade stand, he did show early entrepreneurial tendencies. He remembers gathering receipts and diving into the books of the family business at age 11 to figure out whether corn […]
Read moreAmerica’s wide lead in venture capital is fading, threatened by Asia and its rising brain center: China. A surge of new money from China and the rest of Asia helped drive funding totals to the stratosphere and transformed the venture landscape. Last year Asia directed 40 percent of the global total versus 44 percent from […]
Read moreComing up with a game-changing idea or tackling a massive, entrenched industry isn’t the biggest challenge faced by disruptive companies. It’s the challenge of transitioning a fast-moving start-up that breaks all the rules into a sustainable business that plays by the rules. It’s the need to transition “from pirate to navy,” as LinkedIn co-founder and […]
Read moreAs one of the biggest digital currency platforms, Coinbase was in the right place at the right time as the price of bitcoin skyrocketed in 2017, but the company has no intention of taking its crypto gains for granted. With $150 billion in assets across more than 20 million customers, and 2017 revenue reported at […]
Read moreIt took six years, but the CNBC Disruptor 50 list is starting to close the gap. There are more female CEOs and founders and start-up business models and products focused on women than ever before. The 2018 Disruptor list has nine female CEOs, up from just three last year. Thirteen of the companies have at […]
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