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ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailCNBC Crypto World features the latest news and daily trading updates from the digital currency markets and provides viewers with a look at what’s ahead with high-profile interviews, explainers, and unique stories from the ever-changing crypto industry. On today’s show, Robert Le of PitchBook discusses which crypto projects are likely to get the most attention from venture capital firms in 2025. Source link

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A pedestrian passes in front of a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Michelle Gustafson | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA federal appeals court on Friday largely rejected Starbucks’ appeal of a National Labor Relations Board finding the coffee chain illegally fired two Philadelphia baristas because they wanted to organize a union.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Starbucks lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of NLRB administrative law judges, in a possible setback for companies such as Amazon.com, Trader Joe’s and Elon Musk’s SpaceX that have sought to limit the agency’s enforcement powers.Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro wrote for a…

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Ashton Jeanty was into basketball more than football as a kid. So before he grew up to be a 5-foot-9 battering ram in cleats, his favorite athlete was LeBron James. Jeanty, who bounced around the globe as the son of a Naval officer, spent a chunk of his childhood in Florida when James was on the Miami Heat.“Seeing (LeBron) beat all the odds,” said Jeanty, “I feel like I’ve been doing that same thing in my career.”It’s why the Boise State running back will forever be the answer to that same question — Who’s your favorite athlete? — for a generation…

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The holiday shopping season has come and gone. When it comes to stock picking, at least, the desire to find a bargain is as strong as ever. A recent analysis of our portfolio revealed we own more than a couple cheap stocks, including one of our newer additions in Bristol Myers Squibb . Still, we’re not necessarily rushing out to put all of them in our shopping cart. Not all good deals are created equal. What we found Our analysis — known as a “screen” in Wall Street parlance — began with all 35 stocks in the portfolio. The goal…

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Images By Tang Ming Tung | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesMany people, especially those with debt, will be discouraged by the recent Federal Reserve forecast of a slower pace of interest rate cuts than previously forecast.However, others with money in high-yield cash accounts will benefit from a “higher for longer” regime, experts say.”If you’ve got your money in the right place, 2025 is going to be a good year for savers — much like 2024 was,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.Why higher for longer is the 2025 ‘mantra’Returns on cash holdings are generally correlated with the Fed’s benchmark…

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One corner of the technology sector contains three stocks that should be staples of investment portfolios in 2025, according to Evercore ISI. Analyst Amit Daryanani said in a mid-December report that he is broadly bullish on the information technology hardware and networking group entering the new year. That includes a host of stocks that are likely to benefit from the artificial intelligence boom. “Heading into CY25, we expect increased enterprise AI traction while the cyclical IT spending recovery broadens across the aggregate tech stack,” the note said. The outlook included a group of “AAA” stocks where investors can “set-it and…

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This is the fourth entry in a five-part series about the state of the New York Giants. Within “Giants 2025,” we will examine the talent on the roster, the team’s positions of need, their pathways to improvement, the players they could target in the offseason and finally, the people charged with restoring this franchise to its former glory. As the New York Giants pondered taking a quarterback in the first round of this year’s NFL Draft, the team’s brass reviewed the spotty recent history of top picks at the position in a “Hard Knocks” scene. As coach Brian Daboll rattled through…

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R), Co-Chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) carries his son on his shoulders at the U.S. Capitol following a meeting with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy (L), Co-Chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency, Rep. Kat Cammack (C), and other members of the U.S. Congress on December 05, 2024 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesA multi-day firestorm has erupted over comments made by two incoming advisers to President-elect Donald Trump about H-1B temporary worker visas, a carve-out for high-skilled workers that some in MAGA world say are taking American jobs.  The…

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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Rigetti Computing — The quantum computing stock soared 10%, adding to the sector’s robust end-of-year rally . Shares of Rigetti are now up 1,674% on the year. KULR Technology Group — Shares pulled back around 9%, reversing the gains seen in the previous session. On Thursday, the stock advanced more than 40% after the space technology company said it bought 217.18 bitcoin worth about $21 million. This was the company’s first purchase since it announced a new bitcoin treasury initiative on Dec. 4, when bitcoin passed the $100,000 level for the…

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Investors may not be getting as many rate cuts as they had hoped in 2025, but there are still plenty of solid tailwinds for dividend-paying stocks. The Federal Reserve last week penciled in two interest rate cuts in the new year, fewer than the four reductions policymakers predicted back in September. A falling interest rate environment generally bodes well for dividend-paying stocks, as they have an easier time competing against the yields on risk-free Treasurys. “In the construct of the Fed lowering rates, you see money market rates starting to come down as well,” Charles Gaffney, managing director at Morgan…

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