Virgin Galactic‘s leadership expects millions of space tourists will want to fly in the next decade, more demand than can be fulfilled by both Richard Branson’s company or Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, its closest competitor. “Ultimately we think this is going to be a capacity constrained market – more people are going to want to
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during signing ceremony committing Google to help expand information technology education at El Centro College in Dallas, Texas, October 3, 2019. Brandon Wade | Reuters Alphabet will pick up where it left off after July’s stellar second quarter earnings report if Wall Street analysts are to be believed. The company
Ark Investment Management founder and CEO Catherine Wood told CNBC that Thursday’s surge in Tesla stock is just the beginning of an eventual rise to $4,000 per share and possibly beyond. “Some of the shorts are covering” as Tesla shares see their best single-session gain in six years, said Wood, whose firm owns a considerable
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos laughs as he talks to the media while touring the new Amazon Spheres during the grand opening at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in Seattle, Washington, January 29, 2018. Lindsey Wasson | Reuters A disappointing third quarter earnings report is not enough to deter Wall Street analysts from Amazon. The company
Barclays told clients it’s “still early” to buy the dip on Amazon, as the e-commerce giant’s period of heavy investment could hurt financials and the stock further before things get better. “Historically it’s a good idea to buy AMZN shares in the 7th-8th inning of its investment cycles, closer to where we are coming out,
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) greets an overflow crowd outside of a town hall event on August 17, 2019 in Aiken, South Carolina. Sean Rayford/Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) It’s been a tough
Tim Cook presents at the Apple launch event in Cupertino, Calif on Sept. 10th, 2019. Source: Apple (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, .) Here are the best analyst calls on Wall Street this week: Morgan Stanley- Apple, Overweight rating
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber Technologies, speaks during an Economic Club of Washington event in Washington, DC, June 11, 2019. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Guggenheim initiated Uber as ‘buy’ Guggenheim said Uber has an underappreciated pricing leverage, among other factors. “1) We
Grim as it may be, backup-generator maker Generac Holdings is soaring as power cuts in California become the norm. The stock opened at a new all-time high on Friday, and is up 85% for the year. This week PG&E announced another large-scale preemptive power cut for hundreds of thousands of customers in California. PG&E is
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Friday that Amazon is not in trouble, despite missing on earnings and warning about holiday sales. “It’s a brilliant company,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” “This stock is a buy by next week, mid-week,” advising investors to wait until the selling clears out before getting in. Shares of
The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule next to the company’s Falcon 9 rocket in a hangar at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. SpaceX In about a week SpaceX expects to conduct a key test of the capsule it is developing to launch astronauts, as the company looks to show it fixed an issue that caused an empty
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks during a press event at CES 2019 on January 9, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker | Getty Images News | Getty Images Payments giant Square is getting into stock trading. The San Francisco-based company will offer users the ability to trade individual stock on its Cash App, for
aviation-images.com | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Consumers are paying more attention to their carbon footprint and it could cost airlines billions of dollars, Citi said in a note to clients on Tuesday. The firm said that “flight shaming,” which it defines as “the inherent guilt that an individual feels as a result of
Jeffrey Vinik Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeffrey Vinik, the billionaire investor who relaunched his hedge fund earlier this year, is cutting his comeback tour short. “It has been much harder to raise money over the last several months than I anticipated,” Vinik said in a letter dated Wednesday to investors. The