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George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake
Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...
Billionaire George Soros reveals stake in Rivian, sells some tech shares
Billionaire George Soros’ investment fund has taken a more than $1 billion stake in electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Fr...
GE’s Annual Report Is Shorter Again. Things Are Changing.
Text size General Electric plans to break itself into three parts. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images General Electric ‘s latest annual report is more evidence that the company is shaking itself up....
Buy SoFi Stock, Analyst Says. The Fintech Should Deliver Strong Revenue Growth.
Text size SoFi has been focused on member growth, according to BofA. Rafaelhenriquepress/Dreamstime SoFi Technologies stock is a buy because the company will deliver strong revenue growth thanks to it...
Aurora Cannabis stock gains after first beat on pot sales in more than a year
Aurora Cannabis Inc. shares gained in late trading Thursday, after the Canadian pot producer beat sales expectations for the first time in more than a year. Aurora ACB, -1.08% ACB, -1.02% reported a f...
Zynga reports record results, stock mostly unmoved after hours pending acquisition by Take-Two
Zynga Inc. reported record results in the extended session Wednesday with a slight bottom-line miss, but shares of the videogame publisher were flat after hours given its pending acquisition by Take-T...
Nvidia Calls Off Acquisition of Chip-Designer Arm. It’s Not a Surprise.
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Nvidia fell in premarket trading Tuesday after the graphics chipmaker and Japan’s SoftBank agreed to call off Nvidia’s deal to buy microprocessor desig...
Apple, Not Amazon, Should Buy Peloton. One Analyst Explains Why.
Text size (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) It’s been reported that Amazon.com and Nike are weighing bids for Peloton Interactive . One analyst said he’s be surprised if Apple also wasn’t in t...
CEO of Self-Driving-Car Firm Luminar Buys Stock
Text size A vehicle with Luminar LiDAR Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images Luminar Technologies stock has been slumping, and founder and CEO Austin Russell scooped up the cheaper shares. Luminar (ticke...
Should You Buy PayPal Stock After Its Big Drop? Don’t Rush In.
PayPal refrained from reiterating growth targets, trimmed its forecasts, and said it was shifting strategy away from growing its user base in its latest earnings. Dreamstime Text size PayPal Holdings ...
AT&T CFO Defends Spinoff, Saying It Benefits Retail Investors
Text size AT&T’s chief financial officer, Pascal Desroches. Courtesy AT&T AT&T is defending its move to spin off its big stake in WarnerMedia rather than pursue a split-off, or excha...
The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down
Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...