Apple CEO Tim Cook has been monitoring his own smartphone usage. And tech executive realized the number of notifications he was getting on his smartphone was overwhelming and unnecessary. So he’s been turning them off — “slashing them,” he says. Cook has been beta testing a feature called Screen Time that will be built into […]
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North Korea could account for up to 24 percent of the Korean Peninsula’s total gross domestic product in 20 years under reunification with the South, UBS estimated in a report this week. The rogue state currently accounts for 1.1 percent of the regional economy. Tensions around the nuclear state have eased after North Korean dictator […]
Read moreNvidia shares will thrive as the company releases its next generation gaming graphics chips later this year, according to one Wall Street firm. Raymond James reiterated its outperform rating for Nvidia shares, predicting the company will generate better than expected financial results in its October quarter. “We conducted mid-quarter checks on NVIDIA with channel partners, […]
Read morePotential home buyers pulled back from a pricey and competitive housing market in May, signing fewer contracts to buy existing homes. A monthly index of so-called pending home sales from the National Association of Realtors fell 0.5 percent compared with April and was 2.2 percent lower than May of 2017. The expectation was for a […]
Read moreAmerica’s millionaires are less bullish about the U.S. economy than they were a year ago. The latest CNBC Millionaire Survey found that 44 percent of Americans with $1 million or more in investable assets think the economy will be stronger at the end of 2018 than it is today. That is down from 50 percent […]
Read moreNine years into a bull market for financial assets, we are seeing an increasing number of investors continuing to prioritize a return or income objective over the risk required to achieve that return. For stock investors, that typically means chasing what is hot today. For fixed-income investors, that means venturing more heavily into more speculative […]
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People used to love their Blackberry keyboards. TCL Corporation, a company in China, now licenses the branding and just launched the Blackberry Key2 with a full keyboard. The Blackberry Key2 costs $649 and will be available in the U.S. on July 13. It’s an OK phone but, as we explain in the video above, there’s […]
Read moreGoogle raised a lot of questions when it unveiled “Google Duplex” at its developers conference in early May. Duplex, as Google demonstrated in the video above, was a scary-smart virtual assistant capable of calling a restaurant to book a reservation. A caller simply had to ask Google Assistant — the company’s version of Siri — […]
Read moreThe Dow transports-tracking ETF (IYT) has fallen more than 3 percent in the last month, and TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon says there are troubling signs that it could fall below a key level. “We’re seeing some underperformance in the transports relative to the broader market as a result of the escalating tension with trade tariffs […]
Read moreCFRA’s chief investment strategist is calling a potential trade war his “big worry” for the stock market. According to Sam Stovall, appearing on CNBC’s “Futures Now,” it’s a bigger threat than rising interest rates and inflation. “I think that we [Wall Street] are certainly discounting the trade tensions that are going on right now,” he […]
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