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Kylian Mbappe exercising inside the gym at Ciudad Real Madrid on May 06, 2026 in Madrid, Spain.Antonio Villalba | Real Madrid | Getty ImagesFrance has emerged as a clear fan favorite for this year’s FIFA World Cup in North America, according to a Bank of America survey — but Microsoft’s Copilot artificial intelligence tool is backing another champion. Roughly 40% of fans surveyed by BofA are betting on another World Cup win for Les Bleus this summer, with France and Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappé expected to be the “golden boot” winner as the tournament’s top scorer. However, AI says…
Paul Tudor Jones said the artificial intelligence-fueled bull market still has further to run, adding that he recently bought more related stocks as he looked for parallels to earlier tech booms.The billionaire hedge fund manager said recent advances in AI resemble the emergence of transformative technologies such as Microsoft’s early software dominance in the 1980s and the commercialization of the internet in the mid-1990s, periods that ushered in years of productivity gains and market upside.”I kind of think Claude, January of this year, would be the equivalent of when Microsoft came out in ’81,” Jones said Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk…
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Microsoft is getting left behind as investors rotate into hotter artificial intelligence stocks. Jim Cramer says this dynamic won’t last forever. “I still own it for the Trust,” Jim said on CNBC on Wednesday, referring to his Charitable Trust , which is the portfolio used by the Investing Club. Jim’s reason to keep the Microsoft position: “I just don’t think that they’re going to sit there and let this happen.” Microsoft has become what Jim calls a “real source of funds,” meaning a stock that portfolio managers and investors are selling to raise the funds to buy other stocks tied…
From a pop-up store in New York’s Soho to wider aisles, Walmart is doubling down on its effort to court high-income shoppers as rising inflation pushes even wealthy consumers to seek value — giving investors in the stock an edge. Shares of Walmart are up a whopping 16.8% for 2026 through Wednesday’s close, more than doubling the S & P 500’s 7.6% advance in that time. Walmart’s surge for the year is also more than five times the S & P 500 consumer discretionary sector’s 3.2% uptick. To boot, Walmart is trading just 3.4% below an all-time high set in…
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Before he became NASA administrator in 2018, Jim Bridenstine was a naval aviator who then served as a US representative from Oklahoma for three terms, sitting on the Committee on Armed Services. Now, five years after leaving NASA, Bridenstine is returning to those military roots. This week, Bridenstine was named chief executive of a Maryland-based company, called Quantum Space, that builds “advanced maneuverable spacecraft.” “For us, national security space is a priority,” said Bridenstine in an interview. Meet Ranger The company is developing a spacecraft, Ranger, that is about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle before its solar panels are…
A trader works on the floor of the American Stock Exchange AMEX) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAggressive options trading in the semiconductor stocks is creating a volatility spread that’s being used by traders to stay bullish in the sector that’s rallying the most, while simultaneously hedging risks in the broader market.The trade is fairly simple: sell downside protection in semiconductor names where volatility is expensive, and buy downside protection in the S&P 500, where it’s relatively cheap, with VIX this week touching…
Hedge funds are staging a dramatic rebound after suffering hefty losses during March’s Middle East-fueled market mayhem, with equity-focused strategies landing their biggest monthly gain for investors in a quarter-century last month. Overall, the industry advanced about 3% on average in April, according to new data published by global industry tracker Hedge Fund Research. “We saw in April a historic performance recovery for hedge funds from a historic decline in the prior month of March,” said HFR president Kenneth Heinz. Among the industry’s big winners were equity hedge funds — a cornerstone strategy in which managers invest both long and…
Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president, Emerson Collective, speaks during the 29th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on May 4, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Investment firms of ultra-wealthy families stepped up their deal-making in April after a slowdown the month prior triggered by the outbreak of the Iran war. Family offices made 55 direct investments in companies…