This is Ray Hou. She’s a — — at Repair Sisters. Repair Sisters is an all-female home repair company in the city of Chengdu, the first of its kind in China. In China, if you needed something fixed, most likely a man would show up at your door. Ray and her colleagues are changing that. And they’re not just doing repairs. They’re building a brand. Going viral. And discovering that China’s growing population of single women need their service. Ray once managed a shopping mall in Xi’an, but as the economy slowed, her hard work stopped paying off. She was…
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Stocks including Tesla , Netflix and General Motors are among the largest companies in the market that could see sharp swings this week on the back of their quarterly earnings reports. Earnings are revving up this week, and investors are keeping a close eye on results that could be the catalyst to keep markets churning higher. After the first week of the third-quarter earnings season, 76% of the 58 companies in the S & P 500 that have posted results so far have beaten earnings expectations, exceeding the first-week average of 68% and slightly higher than last quarter’s 73% figure,…
Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching on Monday and what’s on the radar for Tuesday’s session. Apple’s new high Apple shares hit a new high on Monday. It was up on news the iPhone 17 is doing better than recent versions in terms of sales. This is the first time the stock hit a new high in the 2025 calendar year. (Thanks to Steve Kovach, our…
Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss his criminal case, arguing that he is being vindictively prosecuted because of President Donald Trump’s animus toward him.Comey, in a pair of motions for dismissal filed in federal court in eastern Virginia, also argued that the indictment against him is fatally flawed because his prosecutor, interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, was appointed unlawfully.Comey wants U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff to dismiss the case “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot appeal the ruling.”Any lesser remedy would be insufficient in light of the government’s flagrant misconduct and the need to…
Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock and co-founder LinkedIn, speaks during the WSJ Tech Live conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal at the Montage Laguna Beach in Laguna Beach, California, on October 21, 2024.Frederic J. Brown | Afp | Getty ImagesTwo of the main members of the PayPal mafia are sparring again — this time over artificial intelligence.Billionaire tech investor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman on Monday called Anthropic “one of the good guys” after the AI startup was criticized last week by David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar.”Anthropic, along with some others (incl…
With valuations sky high for artificial intelligence stocks, investors may want to start thinking of a backup plan, according to Trivariate Research founder Adam Parker. The plan includes making a list of diversified stock ideas outside of AI, particularly because the S & P 500 is heavily weighted in tech and AI-related names. “Our quality-adjusted AI factor now has its highest correlation ever to the S & P500,” Parker wrote in a note Sunday. “It isn’t hyperbolic to say that the S & P500 is an AI factor bet.” Stocks remain near record highs thanks, in large part, to enthusiasm…
OpenAI announced on Monday in a joint statement that it will be working with Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA, and other actor unions to protect against deepfakes on its artificial intelligence video creation app Sora.The “Breaking Bad” and “Malcolm in the Middle” actor expressed concern after unauthorized AI-generated clips using his voice and likeness appeared on the app following the Sora 2 launch at the end of September, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said in a post on X.”I am grateful to OpenAI for its policy and for improving its guardrails, and hope that they and all…
Federal agents confront protesters outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on September 28, 2025 in Portland, Oregon. Mathieu Lewis-rolland | Getty ImagesA federal appeals court on Monday said that President Donald Trump could deploy National Guard troops to the streets of Portland, Oregon.The 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals stayed a temporary restraining order issued by a federal district court judge on Oct. 4 enjoining Trump’s order to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to protect an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland.”After considering the record…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is falling “behind” the U.S. timeline to return to the moon with Artemis and he will open the contract to other companies.”We’re not going to wait for one company,” Duffy, who is currently the acting NASA administrator, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday. “We’re going to push this forward and win the second space race against the Chinese. Get back to the moon, set up a camp, a base.”SpaceX did not immediately return a request for comment.SpaceX is among the various contractors participating in NASA’s Artemis mission, which aims to…
After the 2020 corrective low in global equities, India was one the few countries that was able to keep up with the U.S. through the end of 2024. However, Indian equities have lagged the U.S. badly this year with a YTD return of only 3.44% for the iShares MSCI India ETF (INDA) . While 2025 has been an off-cycle year for India’s stock market, a new technical catalyst is on the horizon that bodes well for a strong finish to the year, in both absolute and relative terms. INDA has been in a corrective phase for over a year, reflecting…
