Month: August 2019

Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, Nvidia David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Nvidia jumped as much as 7% after the chipmaker announced better-than-expected second-quarter earnings. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.24 on revenue of $2.58 billion. Analysts had expected earnings per share
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General Electric shares fell more than 11% Thursday after Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos targeted the conglomerate in a new report, accusing it of issuing fraudulent financial statements to hide the extent of its problems. A website has been set up to disseminate the report, www.GEfraud.com, where Markopolos calls it “a bigger fraud than Enron.” The
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This week, the U.K.’s Financial Times covered an important and overlooked aspect of how the U.S. treats its elders: bankruptcy. Stories of seniors filing for bankruptcy are heartbreaking and uncomfortable, so I am not surprised that it took a correspondent paid by a foreign newspaper (Patti Waldmeir) to tell this American story from the lobbies of
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If WeWork CEO Adam Neumann does not contribute at lease $1 billion to chartiable causes in ten-years he will lose some of his super-voting rights. Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images For an organization dedicated to community, WeWork has handed a stunning amount of control—and cash—to one person. The company’s s-1 filing yesterday shows that chief executive Adam
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Nvidia stock rose 7% on Thursday after hours, after the company reported better-than-expected fiscal-second quarter earnings. Here’s what the company reported: Earnings: $1.24 per share, excluding certain items, vs. $1.15 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $2.58 billion, vs. $2.54 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Nvidia’s revenue fell
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Plastic palm trees and doo-wop styling create the character of the Starlux Hotel Morey Family Archives If you love graphic turquoise wallpaper, kidney-shaped coffee tables, lava lamps and plastic palm trees, then you must spend at least one night at the Starlux. Part of the Morey’s Piers complex, which is celebrating its 50thanniversary, the boutique
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Masses of vehicles on November 22, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto Economists love carbon taxes. According to polls, so do roughly two-thirds of Americans. Yet voters in one of the bluest states in the nation, Washington State, twice rejected a carbon levy in recent years. What’s going
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The General Electric Co. logo is seen on the company’s corporate headquarters building in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. July 23, 2019 Alwyn Scott | Reuters Enron whistleblower Harry Markopolos released a report on General Electric on Thursday alleging the company is hiding financial problems. Before the report was made public, GE said, in a statement, “we
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