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Construction on the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMarkets for the first time in the current cycle now think the Federal Reserve’s next move will be an interest rate hike.Following a week of surprisingly high inflation readings, traders in the fed funds futures market are pricing in an increase as soon as December, with a much higher certainty into the early part of 2027, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool.A December hike has a nearly 51% probability, while a move higher by January…

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Jim Cramer is warning investors not to sleep on Microsoft ‘s ability to stay competitive. Most of the analyst community agrees — and so does at least one billionaire hedge fund manager. “The main reason we don’t want to sell [Microsoft] is because they actually have the balance sheet to do what they want,” Jim said on ” Squawk on the Street ” on Friday. “Tomorrow, they could do something that is so revolutionary that we could say, ‘Why did we doubt them?” Jim’s comments came after Bill Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square , revealed a sizable stake in the…

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a law enforcement leaders dinner, celebrating the start of National Police Week, in the Rose Garden at The White House in Washington D.C., on Monday, May 11, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars — including large purchases and sales of tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta — in the first three months of 2026, new disclosure forms reveal.Trump’s filings with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show more than 3,700 transactions, with the total amount for each listed…

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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA — Michael MacGillivray sees the arrival of Chinese electric vehicles in Canada as a potential game changer.”I think it is going to a be a huge eye opener,” said MacGillivray, who oversees 10 dealerships in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada.  As the CEO of Century Auto Group and SIGMA Auto Group, MacGillivray is working to become one of the dealers in the country who will sell imported Chinese EVs. In April, he went to the Beijing Auto Show with other dealers from Canada to establish relationships with Chinese automakers and get a feel for the cars and…

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Those steps (along with follow-up reactions to restore the acid or other chemicals to a usable state) obviously add up in terms of cost and energy use. Tallying up the energy to do all this using common techniques, the researchers found that you need to use a little more than double the energy of traditional production from limestone. The interesting thing is that, according to thermodynamics, the chemical conversion of basalt minerals to calcium oxide only requires around half as much as the conversion from limestone. The problem is that our techniques to facilitate that chemical conversion are quite inefficient,…

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BEIJING, CHINA – MAY 14: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (C) gestures as he prepares to depart following a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People on May 14, 2026 in Beijing, China. President Trump is meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing to address the Iran conflict, trade imbalances, and the Taiwan situation while establishing new bilateral boards for economic and AI oversight. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesEarnings for chip giant Nvidia are always a big deal for the stock market but are stacking up to be monumental this time,…

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The National Football League outlined to the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission its views on how sports-related prediction markets should be regulated as the industry continues to experience massive growth, according to a letter reviewed by CNBC. Recommendations include banning certain event contracts and raising the age requirement for participation. Senior vice president for government affairs and public policy for the NFL Brendon Plack penned the letter on Friday to CFTC Chairman Michael Selig, where regulators are currently in a rulemaking process regarding the markets. Plack said the slew of recommendations are to preserve the ethics of the league. “These suggestions are aimed…

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