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Christiaan Hetzner

Christiaan Hetzner

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Bill Ackman’s own hedge fund is asking investors to ignore what he says 

A new Pershing Square hedge fund marketed to Americans wants you to ignore everything its billionaire Wall Street investment manager just told his...

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Big Tech’s $1 trillion dollar sell-off triggers worst day for stock markets since 2022

Excessive AI spending and geopolitical risks are prompting investors to cash in their chips.

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Tesla Q2 earnings just revealed clear risks to its core EV business from a second Trump presidency

Half of Tesla's quarterly profits came from the sale of regulatory zero-emission vehicle credits, a resurgent pillar of its business at risk under a...

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CrowdStrike CSO blasts own failure as stock plummets: ‘The confidence we built in drips over the years was lost in buckets within hours, and it was a gut punch’

One broker tried to rush out a note recommending investors buy the dip, only to find out his bank's computers were CrowdStriked, too.

23.07.2024 5

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Democrat megadonor George Soros and his millennial son Alex are throwing their billions behind Kamala Harris as VP’s potential rivals back out

It's not just wealthy elites backing Harris—Democratic grassroots platform ActBlue raises a record amount of small dollar donations after Biden...

22.07.2024 30

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Elon Musk’s crusade against California is seeing Tesla sales in the Golden State plummet while demand for Rivian EVs soar

Musk does not appear to be doing Tesla any favors by constantly agitating against left-leaning issues popular among his mainly progressive customers.

19.07.2024 10

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Donald Trump wants Taiwan to pay for U.S. protection—and that should worry shareholders of Nvidia, Microsoft and Tesla 

A lukewarm commitment to the island nation's security could threaten the supply of Nvidia's vaunted AI training chips that power Big Tech data...

18.07.2024 10

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Andreessen Horowitz founders explain why they are endorsing Trump, claiming the future of technology is on the ballot in November 

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz fear an anti-capitalist wing of Biden's party threatens to wipe out innovative startups that fuel America's economic...

17.07.2024 10

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Elon Musk blames robotaxi delay on ‘important design change’, but he claims to have a surprise up his sleeve

The announcement of an Aug. 8 robotaxi reveal helped form a bottom in the stock right when Musk needed shareholders to approve his record pay package.

16.07.2024 10

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls for a show of unity after Donald Trump’s shooting: ‘What a difference an inch can make to history’

The OpenAI CEO urged Americans to collectively step back from the edge after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

15.07.2024 10

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Could Elon Musk be about to move X out of San Francisco? A property deal in the works suggests he wants out.

Real estate firm JLL confirmed it has been hired to sublease the entire 800,000 square foot complex housing the social media company's headquarters.

12.07.2024 10

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Archegos speculator Bill Hwang could spend the rest of his life behind bars after his disastrous bets ushered in the demise of Credit Suisse 

Federal jury finds Hwang lied to lenders over the size and scope of his bets on stocks like ViacomCBS in order to juice returns, causing $10 billion...

11.07.2024 10

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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio refuses to endorse Joe Biden or Donald Trump: ‘No good party for me to choose from’ 

The Bridgewater founder despairs over America's choice in November between an 'unethical, almost fascist Republican Party' and a 'frail, untruthful'...

10.07.2024 10

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Stock market faces 10% correction ahead of U.S. election, warns Morgan Stanley’s chief strategist Mike Wilson, who predicts Q3 will be ‘choppy’

The AI trade has lifted the stock market to all-time highs despite weakening economic data, prompting fears the upcoming Q2 earnings season could...

09.07.2024 10

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Who is David Ellison? Heir to the Oracle fortune celebrates his biggest deal ever by clinching control over ‘Top Gun’ studio Paramount

Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s son, David Ellison, announced he reached terms to acquire a controlling stake in Paramount.

08.07.2024 10

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Wall Street’s biggest bear—once dubbed ‘Gandalf’ for his market foresight—is out of a job after predicting a U.S. recession that never happened

JPMorgan's Marko Kolanovic made a name for himself as a contrarian during the pandemic, but too many wrong footed calls finally caught up to him.

05.07.2024 20

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Elon Musk’s Tesla recoups all its year-to-date losses after adding a staggering $150bn in market cap in just 3 days: ‘Worst is in the rear view mirror’

Investor faith in Tesla's once busted-growth story appears to have returned after a dire first-half that saw it become the butt of jokes.

04.07.2024 20

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Elon Musk vows Bill Gates will be ‘obliterated’ if he doesn’t stop shorting Tesla 

If the Optimus robot somehow catapults Tesla to Musk's $30 trillion market cap target, bears like the Microsoft co-founder could be wiped out—but...

03.07.2024 10

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Ken Griffin is hitting pause on the AI hype, saying he’s unconvinced the tech will start replacing jobs in the next 3 years

"For a number of reasons, I am not convinced that these models will achieve that type of breakthrough in the near future."

02.07.2024 20

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Hollywood tycoon Ari Emanuel blasts OpenAI’s Sam Altman after Elon Musk scared him about the future: ‘You’re the dog’ to an AI master

Emanuel, who built Endeavor from a talent agency into a fully-fledged media empire, believes Altman's behaviour shows he is not to be trusted with...

01.07.2024 10

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Warren Buffett warns Gates Foundation there is no guarantee his support of the charity will continue once he’s gone—’no money coming after my death’

The 93-year-old gave another $4 billion to the foundation on top of the previous $39 billion already donated, but that may be the end.

28.06.2024 10

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang plays down competition worries as key supplier disappoints with subdued expectations for AI chip sales

Hype for AI is so feverish that even meeting expectations isn't enough for investors.

28.06.2024 10

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Rivian founder tells investors why incoming shareholder Volkswagen needs his help to take on Tesla just as much as he needs the cash injection

After years spent and billions lost in a vain attempt to narrow Tesla's considerable lead in software, Volkswagen is flat out desperate.

26.06.2024 10

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Nvidia sees over $500 billion wiped off value after shares slide—the biggest 3-day value loss for any company in history

The undisputed leader in semiconductors used for AI training lost almost the equivalent of an entire Tesla since its stock peaked last week.

25.06.2024 20

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Linda Yaccarino’s right-hand man out at X as global operations chief reportedly given the sack

The CEO of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter is under heavy pressure by Elon Musk to turn around his loss-making company.

24.06.2024 7

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Imagine selling your Nvidia stake now worth $160 billion 5 years ago—one tech investor rues the deal of a lifetime slipping through his fingers as ‘fish that got away’

Softbank founder Masayoshi Son dumped his entire stake in Nvidia after a crypto downturn hurt sales to miners—now he wants to make good with a huge...

21.06.2024 8

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Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI after mutinying against Sam Altman—now he’s launching his own startup for safe AI

A star in the field, Sutskever left his former employer in May hinting he wasn't leaving AI research. His departure came almost six months to the day...

20.06.2024 8

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Bank of America tells Detroit’s Big 3 they can’t make money in China and should just leave the hypercompetitive car market ‘as soon as they possibly can’

BoA argues GM, Ford and Stellantis either face a future of funding continued losses in China or they can redeploy resources to finally become...

19.06.2024 20

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Linda Yaccarino shares her biggest moment of imposter syndrome from her last year running Elon Musk’s X

Linda Yaccarino said the "best message I ever got of all time" was Elon Musk posting he had appointed a female CEO of X.

18.06.2024 20

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Elon Musk and his fellow CEOs are outpacing their workers with fastest pay growth in 14 years—but some still justify massive pay packages by ‘fairness’

Americans nowadays would need to toil for nearly three centuries to make what their CEOs can often earn in one year.

17.06.2024 10

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Roaring Kitty sends a hidden message to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen by raising stake to 9 million shares

GameStop investors believe the meme stock trader may be angling for a seat on the board after acquiring 2% of the company.

14.06.2024 6

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Elon Musk declares victory in crunch CEO pay vote hours before shareholder meeting even begins

The Tesla CEO turned his pay deal into a confidence vote, knowing investors had no obvious successor in place as an alternative.

13.06.2024 7

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GameStop pockets record $2.1 billion from snap share sale that tanked the stock

And GameStop has Roaring Kitty aka Keith Gill to thank for it.

12.06.2024 5

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Roaring Kitty jokes about losing another $51 million on GameStop 

The YOLO king of meme stock traders already suffered a $300 million loss on Friday after GameStop foiled his short squeeze.

11.06.2024 8

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Musk says retail shareholders still back him despite $1.7 trillion oil fund saying they will vote against his pay package

Continued lobbying on Elon Musk's behalf all the way down to the wire suggests the risk of a ‘no’ vote at this Thursday's annual shareholder...

10.06.2024 10

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Roaring Kitty was poised to become a billionaire but GameStop threw a monkey wrench in the plan

The brick-and-mortar retailer surprised with a plan to sell up to 75 million newly issued shares for no specific reason, sending the stock tumbling...

07.06.2024 10

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey warns social media is draining people of free will

Users are being spoon-fed content that reinforces their biases. But if things are bad now, a remorseful Dorsey warns they're only going to get worse...

06.06.2024 9

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Elon Musk admits diverting Tesla’s AI chips to his other companies, claiming ‘they would have just sat in a warehouse’

The timing of his latest conflict of interest is damaging, coming just days before a key shareholder vote over his record pay package on June 13.

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Microsoft is laying off workers at its Mixed Reality business as the technology that inspired Mark Zuckerberg to rename his company struggles

Global sales of AR and VR headsets like Microsoft's HoloLens 2 dropped by nearly a quarter last year, continuing a trend that has seen interest fall...

04.06.2024 20

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Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year low

The Tesla CEO faces claims he pocketed $3 billion in ill-gotten gains in late 2022 after learning Q4 vehicle sales would not be the 'epic end of year'...

03.06.2024 20

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Trump’s fundraising site crashes after guilty verdict as both Biden and Trump campaigns use hush payment trial to drum up millions in donations

Trump has proven highly effective at spinning his numerous indictments and arraignments into grassroots donations, out-raising the Biden campaign in...

31.05.2024 20

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Victory for Bob Iger after nemesis Nelson Peltz reportedly sells entire Disney stake

Peltz's proxy battle posed the greatest threat to a Disney CEO since Michael Eisner’s feud with family heir Roy Disney twenty years ago.

30.05.2024 20

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Former OpenAI board member reveals why Sam Altman was fired in bombshell interview—‘we learned about ChatGPT on Twitter’

"We just couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us," Toner said of the four board members who tried to fire Altman last year.

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Elon Musk is recruiting xAI staffers who are ‘without regard to popularity or political correctness’ a day after raising $6 billion from investors

Musk's latest startup is barely a year old and already it is worth $24 billion. But Tesla shareholders fear it will compete with the carmaker for...

28.05.2024 30

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George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, calls risk-averse Hollywood creatively bankrupt—‘there’s almost no original thinking’ 

Faced with ballooning costs for movies, TV and video games, the entertainment industry prefers to bet on bankable franchises with built-in fan bases.

28.05.2024 30

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Elon Musk earns praise from Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang ahead of shareholder vote on pay package—‘Tesla is far ahead in self-driving cars’

The ringing endorsement from Huang comes amid Musk's recent pivot to AI as the Tesla boss quietly scrapped his vision of growing volumes over tenfold...

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Jamie Dimon warns markets are fooling themselves by thinking inflation will soon go away

The JPMorgan boss believes official data is not sufficiently reflecting price pressures that are in the pipeline but have yet to manifest.

17.05.2024 30

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Apple's disastrous iPad ad mocked by rival Samsung in new 43-second spot

Samsung joins the pile-on after everyone from actor Hugh Grant to startup angel Paul Graham blasted Apple for its 'Crush' ad.

16.05.2024 60

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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns U.S. is ‘on the brink’ and estimates a more than one in three chance of civil war

The Bridgewater hedge fund founder recommends only investing in the 'best parts' of the United States and moving the rest to more stable and...

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Employees are cheating on workplace drug tests at record rates

A rise in the use of recreational marijuana use in states that have legalized cannabis appears to be behind a spike in falsified workplace drug tests.

15.05.2024 20

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