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Tesla and 9 Other Companies That Would Take a Hit From a 15% Minimum Corporate Tax
Text size Nvidia has had a 4.7% tax rate and average pretax profit of $4.8 billion. Here, a cryptocurrency mining rig is equipped with Nvidia Geforce GPU at the Thailand Crypto Expo 2022. Andre Malerb...
Senate Passes Climate Bill. The Rush to Renewable Energy Is On.
The climate and tax package passed by the Senate on Sunday will unlock around $400 billion in funding for clean energy and accelerate a historic shift in how the world is powered. Along with a paralle...
GE Is Building the Electricity Grid of the Future. Here’s What We Found on a Tour.
Text size GE wants to be a player in the electricity grid of the future. That will benefit its coming Vernova business. Brandon Bell/Getty Images NISKAYUNA, N. Y–In General Electric ’s sprawling resea...
Wells Fargo, digital assets are an “innovation on par with the internet, cars, and electricity”
Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization, has released a special report entitled “Understanding Cryptocurrency,” which compares digital assets to the invention of “the...
Berkshire Buys Buffett Successor’s Stake in Prized Utility Unit
Text size Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway bought a 1% stake held by Vice Chairman Greg Abel in the company’s big electric utility business for $870 million in cash, hig...
10 Companies That Would Take a Hit From a 15% Minimum Corporate Tax
Text size Nvidia has had a 4.7% tax rate and average pretax profit of $4.8 billion. Here, a cryptocurrency mining rig is equipped with Nvidia Geforce GPU at the Thailand Crypto Expo 2022. Andre Malerb...
How Democrats’ New Budget Deal Boosts Tax Credits For Renewable Electricity Production
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 27, 2019: Wind turbines generate electricity at the San Gorgonio … [+] Pass Wind Farm near Palm Springs, California. Located in the windy gap between So...
America’s New Energy Crisis – WSJ
America is wrestling with the worst energy crisis in nearly five decades, a period of high prices and limited supply. What makes this crisis different than the troubles that roiled the country in the ...
‘We get hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties’: My late father left his investments to me and my sister, but gave me more than 50%. My sister wants half. What should I do?
Dear Quentin, My sister is two years older than me. We both are married and have incomes in the low six figures, and our husbands have similar earnings. When she was in her 20s, my sister and her husb...
How Amazon’s $3.9 billion wager on primary care could change your Prime membership
Amazon’s AMZN, +1.52% $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical ONEM, +69.45% is the e-commerce giant’s biggest bet on healthcare to date, and it hints at a future in which primary care and streaming op...
Less Electricity Is Being Used for Mining Following Crypto Crash
The amount of electricity being used for mining cryptocurrency has shot down by roughly 50 percent as the crypto crash continues to take hold. Electricity for Mining Has Taken a Serious Tumble Since N...
Some older workers are being welcomed back to the workforce
Tad Greener’s career and expertise was mostly related to electric and natural gas utilities. Toward the end of 2019 he unexpectedly found himself subject to a “reduction in workplace” at the universit...
Sweden Prefers Using Electricity for Job Creation Activities than Bitcoin Mining
Sweden is at the crossroads of choosing to use electricity for job-creation projects or Bitcoin mining. The dilemma could be tough for this Northern European country to make a wise decision. In an int...
Paraguay’s congress passes crypto bill, sends to president
Paraguay could soon have a new regulatory framework. On July 14, Paraguay’s Senate passed a bill setting up a new licensing for crypto exchanges and rules for miners, among other areas. The bil...
Why Everyone Is Talking About The Texas Electric Grid
AUSTIN, TX – JUNE 08: Texas State Senator Charles Schwertner speaks during a press conference where … [+] Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bills 2 and 3 at the Capitol on June 8, 2021 in...
7 largest U.S. crypto mining firms use enough electricity to power Houston, Congress finds
A new Congressional investigation has highlighted the impact of energy consumption by cryptocurrency mining companies in the United States. The investigation by Democrats revealed that seven leading ...
Tesla Is Doing to Car Makers What Apple Did to Nokia. Will History Repeat?
Text size Volkswagen’s software delays underscore why Tesla will be so hard to catch, according to one analyst. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tesla is disrupting the car business, a little like how A...
Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling
Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...
Cryptominer in Taiwan must pay a fine for using private electricity
Recently Changhua city court demanded that a cryptominer pay around $55,547 for the improper use of electricity for crypto mining operations. The cryptominer, whose last name is Cheng, would have inst...
US Second Largest Electricity Provider Indicates Interest In Bitcoin Mining ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Duke Energy Corporation, American energy, and natural gas firm is aiming to broaden its scope by tapping into the Bitcoin mining industry, as reveale...
These 10 stocks from a sector that is a bear-market bulwark have upside potential of up to 30%
During times of uncertainty, it can help to look at what happened during other down cycles for stocks. True, we don’t know when the stock market will hit bottom during this cycle, or if it already has...
Compass Mining denies allegations of $1.2M unpaid electricity bill, CEO, CFO resign
Compass Mining, a hosting company offering managed mining services to Bitcoin (BTC) miners, announced that both its CEO and CFO have resigned. The company said it has gone through “multiple setbacks a...
This veteran money manager has seen it all. And these 19 dividend stocks pass his rigorous quality screen right now.
Lewis Altfest’s time in the finance industry spans seven decades. He has some words of advice for investors who aren’t used to stomach-churning stock-price moves. He founded Altfest Personal Wealth Ma...
DynamicsMining Terminates Contract with Compass Mining Over Electricity Fees Debt – crypto.news
Dynamics Mining has taken to Twitter on June 27, 2022, to reveal that it has terminated its hosting contract with Compass Mining, alleging that the latter has failed to pay its power consumption bills...
Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard, but many are poised for rapid growth. Here are 15 expected to shine through 2024
In December, we listed analysts’ favorite semiconductor stocks for 2022. That hasn’t turned out well. But after chipmakers’ stocks have been hammered, the group is now trading at “normal-level valuati...