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Jaxson Dart’s feathered blond hair was tucked under a black hoodie, zipped tightly to his chin. Stone-faced, the quarterback couldn’t stop shaking his head in disbelief.“I don’t understand how we lost,” he said.“We should win that game,” coach Lane Kiffin said.Ole Miss had already suffered a loss to Kentucky. This one landed harder.“We have followed a plan that was deliberate and intentional to make an effort to be in this first 12-team Playoff,” said Walker Jones, the executive director of The Grove Collective. “That started two years ago.”It culminated this fall, Jones said, having invested more than $10 million into…

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Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 4, 2022. Mike Blake | ReutersRipple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse has been skeptical of crypto regulation in the U.S., but he is feeling highly optimistic about the post-election environment around the corner.”This is the most important election we’ve had, but I also believe no matter what happens, we’re going to have a more pro-crypto, more pro-innovation Congress than we’ve ever had,” he said in a Wednesday conversation with CNBC at DC Fintech Week.Ripple, a veteran company in crypto known in part for…

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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Lilium — U.S.-listed shares fell more than 57% after the German air taxi startup said in a regulatory filing that its two main subsidiaries would file for insolvency , which is when debts cannot be repaid, in the next few days. Shares of Lilium, which is a penny stock, traded around the 25 cent mark Thursday afternoon. Tesla — The stock surged more than 20% following the electric vehicle maker’s third-quarter profit beat . CEO Elon Musk forecast that the company will see vehicle growth of 20% to 30% in 2025.…

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While investors have been infatuated with the latest AI-fueled growth story, I’m actually finding more and more opportunities in defensive areas of the market. These are stocks that have generally underperformed for much of 2024, but recent price and momentum improvements are creating powerful setups with upside potential. Shares of Kroger Co. (KR) are threatening a new 52-week high this week, and a breakout above current levels would confirm one of the most bullish price patterns in the technical toolkit: the cup-with-handle pattern. We can see the cup-with-handle pattern developing on the daily chart, consisting of a six-month rounded bottoming pattern…

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Dover on Thursday reported weaker-than-expected third-quarter results, pressuring shares of the industrial conglomerate with ties to AI data centers. We’re not concerned: The company’s recent asset sales is likely causing some confusion about the numbers. Revenue rose 1.3% year over year to $1.98 billion, a tad shy of the $2.05 billion consensus estimate, according to LSEG. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) in the three months ended Sept. 30 totaled $2.27, missing expectations by 2 cents, LSEG data showed. On an annual basis, EPS increased 6.1%. Shares were down more than 3% in early afternoon trading, to roughly $185 each. The…

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OpenAI is disbanding its “AGI Readiness” team, which advised the company on OpenAI’s own capacity to handle increasingly powerful AI and the world’s readiness to manage that technology, according to the head of the team.On Wednesday, Miles Brundage, senior advisor for AGI Readiness, announced his departure from the company via a Substack post. He wrote that his primary reasons were that the opportunity cost had become too high and he thought his research would be more impactful externally, that he wanted to be less biased and that he had accomplished what he set out to at OpenAI.Brundage also wrote that,…

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When Kylian Mbappe made his long-awaited move to Real Madrid this summer, the France superstar could have chosen to live wherever he wanted in the Spanish capital.The Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has a luxury apartment in the vibrant city centre, which Mbappe already knew well from previous visits.His new team-mates Luka Modric and Vinicius Junior have impressive residences in the established and comfortable La Moraleja neighbourhood, close to Madrid’s training ground at Valdebebas in the city’s northern outskirts.Mbappe opted for La Finca, the exclusive private development in the swish Pozuelo de Alarcon suburb to the west of the city, following…

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Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at the Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pennsylvania, on October 14, 2024. Dustin Franz | Afp | Getty ImagesA stark shift toward former President Donald Trump on the political gambling platform Polymarket this month stoked scrutiny about four accounts that have collectively spent over $28 million betting on the Republican nominee to win the 2024 presidential election.Polymarket on Thursday confirmed what a number of experts have suspected: All four accounts are controlled by a single trader.A company spokesperson in a statement to CNBC described the whale as a…

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A handful of stocks that are on deck to report earnings have historically surpassed Wall Street estimates and seen shares move the day they report. Investors are closely watching the third-quarter earnings season. The 24% of S & P 500 companies that have reported quarterly results have so far collectively notched roughly 2% earnings growth. Some of the biggest companies set to report next week include Meta Platforms and Mastercard . Despite the sluggish pace of earnings growth so far in the third quarter, some companies have historically outpaced analysts’ estimates and could help pick up the slack for the…

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CANNES, FRANCE – JUNE 19: Elon Musk attends ‘Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk’ session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 – Day Three on June 19, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)Marc Piasecki | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesTesla shares soared roughly 19% Thursday morning, putting the stock on pace for its best day in more than three years, following the company’s better-than-expected earnings report.The company late Wednesday reported revenue of $25.18 billion, which came in just under analysts’ expectations of $25.37 billion, but was…

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