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RBC Capital Markets on Monday highlighted its top stock ideas for 2025, including an energy giant and a key financial company. The bank listed its top 30 stock picks for the new year. RBC said it sifts through companies with solid bottom-up fundamentals that can also capitalize on the current environment. Since its inception, the Top 30 has delivered a total compound annual return of 13.7% versus its benchmark MSCI World Index’s return of 11.2%, according to RBC. However, the basket underperformed for both the fourth quarter and full year in 2024, respectively returning negative 1% and 18.6% versus its…

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Former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning would consider becoming a minority owner of his old team if the Mara family is willing to sell him a stake.”It’s definitely something of interest,” said Manning, who spoke in a CNBC Sport interview. “There’s probably only one team I’d be interested in pursuing, and it’s the one I played for for 16 years, and it’s local, and makes the most sense, but we just got to figure out if they would ever sell a little bit.”The Mara family has owned the Giants since the team’s founding in 1925. The Giants declined to comment on Manning’s…

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A sweat-drenched Donovan Sanders returned to the bench for a timeout late in the first half, looked up at the scoreboard, and saw his team in a familiar position: Down by 18 points against BYU, its hopes of victory already dashed.“We just need an 8-0 run,” the Mississippi Valley State men’s basketball captain shouted, earnest in his belief that it could happen, not wanting to acknowledge the reality that it almost never does.MVSU is the country’s worst college basketball team. It’s a poor program financially, and plays nearly its entire nonconference schedule on the road, where the Delta Devils haven’t…

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The president of Austria on Monday gave Herbert Kickl, the outspoken leader of the Alpine country’s far-right Freedom Party, the task of trying to form a government coalition, three months after the party won the most votes in a general election.“Mr. Kickl is confident that he can find viable solutions in the context of government negotiations, and he wants this responsibility,” President Alexander Van der Bellen said during a five-minute speech after meeting with Mr. Kickl.The president’s request starts a process that could make Mr. Kickl, an anti-immigrant firebrand who has vowed to make the country a “fortress,” Austria’s first…

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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. FuboTV — The streaming provider soared 242% after confirming it struck a deal to combine its online live TV businesses with Walt Disney . The new venture will be 30% owned by Fubo and 70% by Disney and form the second-largest digital pay-TV provider after YouTube TV. Pony AI — The China-based self-driving vehicle company added 2% after Pony AI said in a Friday statement it was trying to launch robotaxi services in Hong Kong, the first step in its global operations expansion. Paycor — Shares of payroll services provider Paycor…

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Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesBitcoin ETFs were a hit with investors in 2024, and now asset management firms are starting to build out ways to combine crypto and derivatives in exchange-traded packages.New products are set to roll out this month. Asset manager Calamos announced Monday that it will launch a structured protection ETF that aims to give investors a way to capture some of bitcoin’s upside with 100% downside protection.The fund will combine options exposure on the Cboe Bitcoin U.S. ETF Index with Treasury holdings and is designed to be held for 12 months. The exact upside cap will…

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Melkinimages | E+ | Getty ImagesTarget-date funds are a way for 401(k) participants to put their retirement savings on autopilot — and they capture the lion’s share of investor contributions to 401(k) plans.About 29% of assets in the average 401(k) plan were held in TDFs as of 2023, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America, a trade group. That share is the largest of any fund category, and is up from 16% in 2014, according to PSCA data.By 2027, target-date funds will capture roughly 66% of all 401(k) contributions, and about 46% of total 401(k) assets will be in…

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Ring security cameras are displayed on a shelf at a Target store on June 01, 2023 in Novato, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesAmazon’s Ring is partnering with fire safety product maker Kidde to launch a connected smoke alarm, the company announced Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.The companies plan to launch Kidde smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that integrate Ring’s home security technology and can deliver alerts to the Ring mobile app. The Kidde Smart Smoke Alarm with Ring will cost $54.97, while the Kidde Smart Smoke and CO Alarm with Ring will cost $74.97. Both products…

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Jared Goff had an early screen pass intercepted deep in Detroit Lions territory, and a deep ball from his own end zone picked off later. Sam Darnold missed throw after throw for the Minnesota Vikings.The final, most pivotal game of the NFL regular season, the first between teams with 14-2 records, was not the anticipated showcase for the most dominant division in modern league history. But the ramifications were massive just the same.The Pick Six column sorts through the fallout from the Lions’ 31-9 victory, which secured Detroit the NFC North title and a first-round playoff bye as the NFC’s…

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