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The world is getting windier, which means a surge in wind-generated power could be coming. A new study led by Princeton University researchers found that from 1978 to 2010 wind speeds decreased by about 2.3% per decade, but that things began to shift in 2010. Between 2010 and 2017 speeds increased roughly 7%, which means

Joel Anderson, CEO, Five Below  Scott Mlyn | CNBC Discount retailer Five Below is well positioned going into the holiday season, and the shares are a cheap now after investors sold the stock on trade war fears, according to J.P. Morgan. The firm added Five Below to its U.S. Equity Analyst Focus List, while the

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi arrives at the New York Stock Exchange as his company makes its initial public offering, Friday, May 10, 2019. Richard Drew | AP Uber’s stock is trading well below the price it debuted at earlier this year but Barclays made the case for how the ridesharing company will soon turn its

Google employees at the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, walk off the job to protest the company’s handling of sexual misconduct claims. Mason Trinca | Getty Images News | Getty Images When it comes to investing, the notion that you can make money in the market and feel good about your investments at

Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Mizuho upgraded Qualcomm to ‘buy’ from ‘neutral’ Mizuho said the semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company was positioned well on 5G going in to 2020 and beyond. “We have been positive on QCOM‘s 5G outlook in 2020

(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) Let’s call them the undisrupted champions of Wall Street. A small group of enormous, elite consumer companies — once seen as vulnerable to onrushing digital disruption and shifting public tastes — have

A trader works next to a Grubhub Inc. paper bag on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Jin Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, .) Here are some

(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) The addictive nature of video games, designed to keep players in the game for as long as possible, may make investors happy, but some are now warning that a regulatory crackdown could

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving closer to approve a new flavor of exchange-traded funds that allow stock pickers to keep their holdings secret. Asset managers T. Rowe Price, Natixis, Fidelity and Blue Tractor have won

An assembly line worker works on the production line at Midwest Automotive Designs in Bristol, Indiana, April 16, 2019. Tim Aeppel | Reuters The U.S. economy will barely grow at all in the fourth quarter, if two Federal Reserve gauges that track gross domestic product are correct. With some recent data coming in below expectations,

Berkshire Hathaway owned 1.2 million shares of furniture retailer RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, at the end of the third quarter, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Shares of RH surged more than 6% in premarket trading on Friday. The stock has rallied 41% this year. Warren Buffett’s conglomerate also

A pedestrian passes in front of a Charles Schwab Corp. bank branch in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Free trading is paying off for brokerage firm Charles Schwab. In the same month the firm dropped trading commissions, Schwab added 142,000 new brokerage accounts, 31% more than the number of new

Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, speaks during the company’s event at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wall Street analysts are expecting big things from Nvidia when the chip maker reports its third-quarter earnings on Thursday after the bell.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Pradeep Gaur | Mint | Getty Images Lost in the news that Google will offer a checking account next year is the implication it has for one of the fiercest rivalries in the tech world. The two dominant operating systems for mobile phones – those supercomputers most of us carry around

In this photo illustration, the Disney + logo is displayed on the screen of an Apple MacBook Pro computer on November 08, 2019 in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty Images This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Credit Suisse raised its outlook for Disney shares after the company released the first-day numbers for

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is getting into banking — but not with the same motivations as Wall Street. The tech giant is launching customer checking

Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 2, 2019 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images A majority of the most wealthy investors around the world are bracing for a big sell-off next year, according to a UBS survey. Fifty-five

An employee pushes grocery carts outside a Kroger Co. grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Tuesday: Evercore ISI upgraded Live Nation to ‘outperform’ from ‘in line’ Evercore said it sees another “strong, double-digit growth” year in 2020 for the events

Netflix has a dominant position in the streaming wars but, while analysts believe the steadily increasing number of well-funded competing services will take a bite out of the company’s advantage, most do not expect Netflix will lose many subscribers. “Netflix is likely to see some incremental churn from new competition – but it should be

Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at the unveiling event by “The Boring Company” for the test tunnel of a proposed underground transportation network across Los Angeles County, in Hawthorne, California, December 18, 2018. Robyn Beck | Pool | Reuters Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Monday: Jefferies raised its price target on