A shopper for Instacart navigates through the aisles as she shops for a customer. Cyrus McCrimmon | Denver Post | Getty Images Instacart isn’t budging on the default tip rate on its platform amid growing calls for food and grocery delivery companies to increase payouts to contract workers. Nilam Ganenthiran, Instacart’s president, said the current […]
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Jim Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ recap & stock picks Jan. 13, 2020
CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned the recent gains in Alphabet could be short lived when the company reports earnings in coming weeks. The “Mad Money” host broke down the movements in other stocks that he said aren’t “momentum” based. Later in the show he sat down with GlaxonSmithKline CEO Emma Walmsley and CVS Health CEO Larry […]
Visa to acquire fintech company Plaid in $5.3 billion deal
Plaid co-founders William Hockey and Zach Perret Source: Plaid Payments giant Visa is buying Silicon Valley start-up Plaid in a deal worth $5.3 billion, the companies announced Monday. Plaid’s API software, often referred to as the “plumbing” behind fintech companies, lets start-ups connect to users’ bank accounts. It’s well-known among financial technology developers, but the […]
600 HealthHUBs will be opened by the end of 2020
CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo told CNBC Monday that the health retailer is on track to meet its goal of rehabbing more than one thousand of its stores and said the chain is seeing positive early results. CVS launched three of its HealthHUB concept stores in the Houston, Texas region near the end of 2018 […]
Cramer breaks down the rallies behind Tesla, Beyond Meat and Lululemon
CNBC’s Jim Cramer has been hammering home the difference between meaningless and meaningful gains on the stock market and on Monday laid out a basket of companies that are rising for good reason. “We don’t want to be in a situation where stocks keep roaring on the same old, same old information, so it’s a […]
IBM’s downgrade makes no sense
First Horizon National Corp.: “This stock is not down as well as I thought because I think that the acquisition was a brilliant acquisition. Others don’t. I think they’re wrong. [CEO] Bryan Jordan understands.” HollyFrontier Corp.: “I’m not going to disagree with you. I think it is a value play, as long as you accept […]
GlaxoSmithKline CEO seeks FDA approval for ‘at least’ six drugs in 2020
GlaxoSmithKline has made innovation its top priority as the drugmaker seeks to land federal approval of six drugs within the next 12 months, CEO Emma Walmsley told CNBC on Monday. Performance and trust round out the balance of GSK’s main priorities in 2020 as the British company labors to make advancements in treatments for a […]
Jim Cramer is skeptical of Google parent’s march toward $1 trillion
Alphabet is close to joining one of the most elusive clubs on Wall Street, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that he is skeptical of the progress. Shares in Alphabet, the tech giant that owns Google, rose almost $10 to an all-time closing high of $1,440.03, pulling within 1% of reaching $1 trillion of market […]
Stocks making the biggest moves after the bell: GameStop, Cloudera and Visa
Pedestrians walk past a GameStop Corp. store in New York, U.S. Bloomberg | Getty Images Take a look at the companies making headlines after the bell. Shares of GameStop fell more than 8% in extended trading after announcing holiday sales numbers that were down sharply from the previous year and lowering guidance. For a nine-week […]
Watch out for this ‘anomaly’ when buying gold: Investor
You may want to think twice before you go mining for precious metal ETFs. While now might seem like a good time to buy gold, with gold ETFs seeing more than $500 million in outflows in the first few weeks of 2020 as enthusiasm around the typically risk-averse yellow metal cooled, industry pros say investors […]