Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBrazil’s supreme court announced Friday that it ordered banks to transfer funds from Starlink and X accounts to pay fines the court levied against Elon Musk’s social network.The court’s top justice, Alexandre de Moraes, and a panel of five other justices, found that X had repeatedly violated Brazilian law when it refused to appoint a legal representative in the country, and when it refused to remove content or profiles from its platform that…
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The Mountain West has established itself as college basketball’s preeminent mid-major conference in the last few years. San Diego State made the national title game in 2023. The league put six teams in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. While conference realignment wreaked havoc around it, the Mountain West’s stability put it on a tier by itself, surpassing the American and the Atlantic 10 as the best mid-major league in college basketball. It was also the best late-night hoops to consume, even topping the Pac-12 in watchability.And now, it’s just like all the others, thrown into chaos by football and greed.The only…
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MISSOULA, Mont. — In a subdivision near the northern edge of town, a number of condos and duplexes have popped up in the past three years.It’s part of a larger effort, including new zoning laws, to help provide affordable housing to Montanans who have found themselves priced out of the market, said DJ Smith, president of the Montana Association of Realtors.”For Montanans, it’s been harder and harder to find a home that meets their needs and is affordable,” he said.An influx of out-of-state residents relocating to the Big Sky state has sent demand soaring, while a shortage of labor keeps…
Let’s be honest: It isn’t the most tantalizing, blockbuster slate of games this weekend, with only two ranked matchups. But there are some rivalries and pairings that should help to define (or expose?) a number of teams that have been tough to pin down through the first couple of games. And as we see just about every week in college football, there’s always something unexpected on the menu.Here are the top 10 games of Week 3, starting with a few honorable mentions and counting down.Honorable Mention: UNLV at Kansas (Fri.), No. 18 Notre Dame at Purdue, No. 1 Georgia at…
Leading technology stocks led an eye-popping rebound rally over the past five days, driving a key exchange-traded fund to one of its best weeks in years. The Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) surged 8.2% this week, the most since Nov. 11, 2022, when the fund gained 10.04%. That was the same month the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT was first introduced to the public. XLK YTD mountain Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) performance this year. Investors can thank a bounce back in megacap technology and semiconductor stocks this week that lifted all three major U.S. stock indexes. Office and…
Bitcoin is rising above $64,000, and MicroStrategy shares are soaring by 40% in three days in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, on February 29, 2024. CFOTO | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesMicroStrategy shares jumped more than 8% on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said the company purchased another $1.1 billion worth of bitcoin.The stock jumped 24% for the week and is now up 124% this year.Saylor said in a post on X that MicroStrategy’s average purchase price in the four years it’s been buying bitcoin is $38,585 per coin. Bitcoin is currently trading at close to $60,000.MicroStrategy’s stash of 244,800 bitcoins is worth…
Greg Olsen finds himself in a strange position. He is a legit No. 1 NFL television analyst, a proven commodity after a fantastic 2023 season that saw him consistently deliver second-level analysis, including in the most important game an NFL broadcaster can call — the Super Bowl.But because Fox Corp. hired Tom Brady, and because it would be inconceivable from a marketing perspective not to place the most famous NFL player in history on your top broadcast team — especially one sitting on a 10-year, $375 million contract — Olsen finds himself calling games this season with Joe Davis and…
Union members react as Aerospace Machinists District 751 President Jon Holden (out of frame) announces that union members rejected a proposed Boeing contract and will go on strike, following voting results at their union hall in Seattle, Washington, on September 12, 2024. Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty ImagesBoeing workers went on strike Friday, the latest disturbance in what has proven a devastating year for the American aircraft manufacturer.But it is not clear whether the labor stoppage will have an impact for the flying public, although there are concerns about a potential effect on air travel next summer.U.S. carriers that rely heavily on Boeing planes include Southwest, United and Alaska…
As the S & P 500 nears its all-time high set in mid-July, some stocks may have become too overbought and are due for a pullback. The broad market index is on pace to rally for five consecutive positive sessions, and is almost 4% higher this week alone. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has surged 5.8% this week, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average is 2.5% higher. That performance has left a host of stocks with outsized gains. With that in mind, CNBC Pro used its stock screener tool to find the most overbought and oversold companies, using each one’s 14-day…
