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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at the COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 4, 2024.Ann Wang | ReutersFor Nvidia investors, the past two years have been a joyride. But recently they’ve been on more of a roller coaster.As the primary beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom, Nvidia has seen its market cap expand by about ninefold since the end of 2022. But after reaching a record in June and briefly becoming the world’s most valuable public company, Nvidia proceeded to lose almost 30% of its value over the next seven weeks, shedding roughly $800…

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Investors may want to consider using the post-earnings weakness in Nvidia to scoop up shares, according to some Wall Street analysts. Shares of Nvidia slumped about 3% in the premarket — after falling by more than 8% at one point in after-hours trading — even after the chipmaker topped Wall Street’s quarterly estimates . Nvidia also said it plans to ship “several billion dollars” worth of Blackwell revenue in the fourth quarter, alleviating some recent concerns of production delays. The company, however, said gross margins declined from the previous quarter. Nvidia also issued a stronger-than-expected forecast, but it was below…

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a Rose Garden event at the White House to mark National Small Business Week on May 1, 2023 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesSmall business owners are more optimistic to start the year, even as they face persistent inflation and lending concerns, a new poll released Thursday found.Seventy-five percent of small business owners are optimistic about their financial trajectory in 2024, up from 68% a year earlier, according to a survey by Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Voices, a policy advocate for small business owners.Meanwhile, 28% of respondents rated the economy as good…

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The U.S. is home to the majority of the world’s data centers, with more than 2,800. The closest nation after that is the United Kingdom, with less than 400, according to the Data Center Map.Data centers are the physical vertebrae of internet infrastructure, supporting cloud computing capabilities and artificial intelligence.The value of the land where data centers are planned to be built is now soaring, 10 times the original price in one case from Vint Hill, Virginia.Pat Lynch, executive managing director for the digital infrastructure business at commercial real estate brokerage CBRE, told CNBC that demand was already strong, but…

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during his speech and press conference in the Rose Garden at 10 Downing Street on August 27, 2024 in London, England.Wpa Pool | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday told the nation that the upcoming October budget would be “painful,” as he paves the way for spending cuts to address what the government says is a £22 billion ($29 billion) financing shortfall.”We have no other choice given the situation that we’re in,” Starmer said in a speech in the gardens of 10 Downing Street, the prime minister’s…

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Bars of original KitKat chocolate, produced by Nestle SA.Jason Adlen | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — Investors may think that the replacement of Nestle CEO Mark Schneider with company veteran Laurent Freixe is “not such a bad thing,” analyst Jon Cox said Friday.Cox, who is head of consumer equities at Kepler Cheuvreux, told CNBC that he expects many investors will welcome the move following a period of lackluster performance at the world’s largest food manufacturer.”I think confidence has been severely hit in the case and particularly in Schneider,” he told “Squawk Box Europe.””I presume most people will think it’s not…

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The 255-foot superyacht Malia sold in 2023 with a price tag of $120 million.But she can be yours for a fraction of the cost: $930,000 per week.But with many large yacht charters, surcharges — for fuel, food, drinks, marina fees, onshore activities and special requests — are usually an additional 35% of the base price. Cruising in Europe also attracts a value-added tax of around 20% of the base fee, but this can vary by country. Crew gratuities are also between 10% to 20% of the charter fee.All in, a week cruising the French Riviera on Malia costs a whopping $1,441,500.For the…

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The Deepmind logo is being displayed on a smartphone with the Google Gemini logo in the background in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on February 8, 2024.Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesGoogle said it will soon allow users to create images of people using its Gemini artificial intelligence tool, after pulling the AI image generation option in February.In a blog post Wednesday, Dave Citron, a senior director of product on Gemini, wrote that early access to Google’s new Imagen 3 generator will be available to Gemini Advanced, Business and Enterprise users starting in English in the coming days.”We’ve…

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A worker assembles a corn combine harvester at a factory in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone, East China’s Shandong province, Aug. 31, 2024.Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesChina’s manufacturing activity sank to a six-month low in August as factory gate prices tumbled and owners struggled for orders, an official survey showed on Saturday, pressuring policymakers to press on with plans to direct more stimulus to households.The National Bureau of Statistics purchasing managers’ index slipped to 49.1 from 49.4 in July, its sixth straight decline and fourth month below the 50 mark separating growth from contraction. It missed the median forecast…

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