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The stock market’s rally during spiking Covid cases, which could threaten the U.S. economy’s recovery, may be justified by strong earnings from struggling American industrial companies, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “These are astounding numbers,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” referring to quarterly results from General Electric and Raytheon. “It makes you feel

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour seen docked with the International Space Station on July 1, 2020. NASA A pair of investors are joining the first fully-private flight to the International Space Station — not as financial backers, but as the passengers flying along. Houston-based start-up Axiom Space on Tuesday unveiled that real estate investor Larry Connor

Ramin Talaie | Bloomberg | Getty Images GameStop is popping again after a wild session, pushing the stock back above $100 briefly, but short sellers betting against the videogame retailer are nowhere near letting up. Shares of GameStop last jumped more than 20% to around $92 in premarket trading on Tuesday after hitting triple digits

The power of the internet is bringing individual investors together to crush Wall Street hedge funds and other investment bigwigs. It’s a new trend that’s only just getting started, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Monday. “It’s the ‘wallstreetbets’ people.’ And they have ganged up, arguably allowed by free speech purposes, to center on a few

Matteo Colombo | DigitalVision | Getty Images For most investors these days, it’s literally a “PIPE dream.”  PIPEs, or private investments in public equity, are mechanisms for companies to raise capital from a select group of investors outside the market. But as PIPEs are increasingly being deployed in conjunction with a surge in SPAC mergers,

People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in lower Manhattan on October 02, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Parts of the market are in bubbles, but they are unlikely to take the overall market down with them when they pop, according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street firm

A woman is reflected in a puddle as she passes a Bank of America branch in New York’s Times Square. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The Democrats officially control the Presidency, Senate and House, yet Wall Street appears to be largely unphased. According to data from LPL Financial, the S&P 500 delivered its highest Inauguration Day

Medicines for dogs from Elanco (above) and Bayer (below) are available in an animal shelter on the treatment table of a veterinarian. Frank Rumpenhorst | picture alliance | Getty Images Company: Elanco Animal Health Inc. (ELAN) Business: Elanco is an animal health company that develops, manufactures and markets products for companion and food animals. The company provides

The U.S. stock market could roar higher if President-elect Joe Biden is able to smooth out the country’s rocky start to Covid vaccinations, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday, just a few hours before the Democrat is sworn into office. “It’s pure chaos. I predicted it would be pure chaos. I never thought it would be

Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, at the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial Services Conference on December 4, 2018. Michael Newberg | CNBC Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan is awarding nearly all of his 212,505 employees a bonus for their work during the coronavirus pandemic. Staffers in the U.S. who earn $100,000 or less