The U.S. Department of Energy on Feb. 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesCalifornia has paused rebate programs offering thousands of dollars to consumers who make their homes and appliances more energy efficient due to a Trump administration freeze on federal funding.While a handful of other states also recently halted their programs, California is the largest state to delay a rollout so far — putting $582 million earmarked for consumers and program administration at risk.California had issued its first rebate check to consumers in February, according to the state’s Energy Commission.”Many states were just…
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ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailOn today’s episode of CNBC Crypto World, cryptocurrencies rebound after the Trump administration adds an auto exemption to the recent rollout of tariffs. Plus, the Senate passes a resolution to undo a new IRS rule for DeFi brokers. And, JP Richardson of Exodus discusses the self-custody platform’s fourth-quarter earnings. Source link
A formerly “puny” man could not find anyone tall enough to guard him.A few years into his professional career, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander needed to add post-up drills to his summer routine. His trainers, far from the typical troop that surrounds an NBA superstar, couldn’t meet the criteria. Gilgeous-Alexander spends his summers in Hamilton, Ontario, near where he grew up. His morning workouts, which begin at 6 a.m., include a Team Canada assistant coach and six friends from high school.The gang goes by the name of its text chat: “Sunrise Training.” But no regular sunrise trainer is bigger than 6 foot 2.…
(Check out Carter’s worthcharting.com for actionable recommendations and live nightly videos.) Amazon’s 19% sell-off from its 52-week high one month ago is seen as a buying opportunity. The stock is in a well-defined uptrend, and uptrends are characterized by countertrends (sell-offs). This pullback, as seen in the charts below, is very similar in terms of magnitude and duration to other countertrend moves in the context of Amazon’s ongoing uptrend. Here are two Amazon charts below for your consideration. DISCLOSURES: None. All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC…
Citi Research thinks the market is failing to correctly price aerospace and defense stocks, leaving open a huge opportunity to buy the dip amid signs of defense spending growth. Defense stocks have taken a hit in recent weeks given uncertainty tied to DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts and President Donald Trump’s mixed messages on his trade and military spending plans. The iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA) popped just after Trump’s election win, but lost more than 3% over the past month, fueled by Trump’s suggestion in mid-February that the U.S. could massively cut defense spending. Citi Research analyst Jason Gursky…
Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight loss drug has seen a meteoric rise in popularity. Nurphoto | Getty ImagesNovo Nordisk on Wednesday said it will offer its weight loss drug Wegovy for less than half of its usual price per month through a new direct-to-consumer online pharmacy.The cash-pay offering is available to millions of patients without insurance coverage for the blockbuster injection. It aims to make Wegovy available to more people, while also ensuring that patients use the branded medication instead of cheaper compounded copycats that exploded in popularity during a recently resolved U.S. shortage of Novo Nordisk’s drug.The pharmacy, called NovoCare, will…
Michael Grimes, head of global technology investment banking at Morgan Stanley, smiles while speaking to freshman students enrolled in the Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (M.E.T.) program during an orientation at the University of California-Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesStar technology investment banker Michael Grimes, who left Morgan Stanley to take up a senior role in the U.S. Commerce Department last month, is expected to lead the new U.S. sovereign wealth fund that was unveiled by President Donald Trump, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.The discussions about…
Alexis OhanianDavid A. Grogan | CNBCContent aggregator Digg is making a comeback with the help of an unlikely partner: Reddit co-founder and rival Alexis Ohanian.Ohanian and Digg founder Kevin Rose acquired the platform for an undisclosed sum. The deal is backed by venture capital firms True Ventures, where Rose is a partner, and Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six. The partnership was announced Wednesday in a video post to the company’s X account in which Rose called the partnership a “team-up he would have never imagined 20 years ago.”Digg was founded in 2004 and rose to prominence as a major outlet for…
GLASTONBURY, Conn. — It’s mid-afternoon on a Sunday and, from the front of Dan Hurley’s house, you can turn around and look clear across Connecticut. Over Manchester, over South Windsor, over Enfield, all the way to Massachusetts. Hundreds of miles. In the distance, the horizon line is cut by national parks in Vermont. Hurley once told a recruit that the view reaches all the way to Canada. Dan Hurley says lots of things.This house? It’s up there. For a state that isn’t all that topographically interesting, Minnechaug Mountain, roughly 10 miles east of Hartford, has an elevation of about 700…
U.S. and Hamas officials held talks in Qatar about hostages held in the Gaza Strip, breaking with a long-running American policy of refusing to directly engage with the militant group, according to an Israeli official and a diplomat briefed on the matter. Adam Boehler, President Trump’s nominee to be special envoy for hostage affairs, participated in the talks this week with Hamas officials, the diplomat said. Both people discussed the meetings on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the sensitive diplomacy. The scope of the discussions was not immediately clear, but mediators have been…
