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• Weed stocks have become so popular that Robinhood is having trouble executing trades for one of the most-popular names

  23-09-2018 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robinhood has suspended new buying of Aurora Cannabis through its platform, the brokerage said Wednesday.
  "This is happening because there's limited support at execution venues for the large volume of ACBFF orders we've received," it told users who own shares. 
  Cannabis stocks are among the most popular on the brokerage, outpacing many tech names, as they continue to hit fresh highs. 
  Follow Aurora Cannabis in real-time here. Cannabis investors on Robinhood woke up to a surprise W
  
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• Wall Street's convinced that Tesla will need to raise more cash — and has some theories about how and when that may happen (TSLA)

  23-09-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wall Street's convinced that Tesla will need to raise more cash, and it has some theories about how and when that may happen.
  Morgan Stanley said that in addition to a capital raise in 2018, Elon Musk might also need an outside partner for more financing.Wall Street remains doubtful that Tesla will go through the rest of 2018 without raising fresh capital.
  And while Elon Musk remains adamant that the electric-car maker can become sustainably cash-flow positive in 2018, sell-side analysts are now
  
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• The market legend who's called every modern financial collapse explains the biggest mistake investors make when a bubble looks ready to burst

  23-09-2018 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jeremy Grantham, the cofounder and chief investment strategist at the $71 billion Grantham, Mayo, & van Otterloo, has become a world-renowned market voice by calling every modern financial bubble — including the past two stock meltdowns.
  Grantham shares his thoughts on how to play a bubble and explains the mistake he sees many investors make when they're afraid a meltdown is near.As stock market valuations have charged into rarefied air over the past couple of years, cries of a bubble
  
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• The inside story of how an old-school Scottish firm became an early investor in many of Silicon Valley's most prized unicorns, and made a killing in the process

  23-09-2018 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Baillie Gifford, a 110-year-old Scottish investment firm that manages $255 billion, has made a name for itself by investing in a wide range of successful companies.
  The firm has been especially keen to start investing in earlier-stage companies, and it owns stakes in many highly valued private firms known as unicorns.
  Tom Slater, Baillie Gifford's head of US equities who also co-manages its flagship fund, explains how the firm got to the enviable position it's in today.If you're an investment ma
  
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• 'The House with a Clock in Its Walls' wins a quiet weekend box office

  23-09-2018 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" won the weekend box office with an estimated $26.8 million.
  The ambitious movies "Fahrenheit 11/9," and "Assassination Nation" fell short.
  Amazon's "Life Itself" had the year's worst opening weekend for a film that opened in more than 2,500 screens, as it only took in $2.1 million.As September wraps up, we are currently at a dry spot in the box office calendar with no major anticipated titles opening (the next big weekend will be the first in October when "V
  
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• China's state-backed 'National Team' may rescue stocks from trade war woes

  23-09-2018 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  The "National Team" is a group of institutional investors that was formed after a sharp Shanghai Composite index correction in 2015.
  The team could step in again soon as the US-China trade war escalates, analysts say. 
  Follow the Shanghai Composite Index in real time here.
  As an escalating trade battle with Washington raises growth concerns in Beijing, Chinese stocks may get a helping hand from state-backed investors. 
  Deutsche Bank analysts Michael Tong and Luka Zhu wrote in a note to
  
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• Vacuums, tires, and computer parts: These are the goods that will be hit the hardest by Trump's new China tariffs

  23-09-2018 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  President Donald Trump announced a new tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods on Monday.
  The tariff, which goes into effect September 24, will hit a wide range of goods, from furniture to industrial chemicals.
  These are the biggest imports that are going to get hit, ranked by the monetary value of total imports to the US from China in 2017.President Donald Trump's latest broadside against China could drive up the cost of some very important imports.
  The latest round of tariffs, which hit
  
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• The best way to avoid killer robots and other dystopian uses for AI is to focus on all the good it can do for us, says tech guru Phil Libin

  23-09-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing rapidly and starting to be adopted widely.
  The technology has the potential to transform society.
  But it could lead to lots of negative outcomes, such as massive unemployment, and could be put to plenty of deleterious uses, such as large-scale violations of privacy.
  The best way to avoid those harms would be to focus on creating products that use the technology in socially beneficial ways, said Phil Libin, best known as the founder of Evernote, whose ne
  
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• Amazon came out of nowhere to claim the No.3 spot in online advertising — and its game plan should make Google and Facebook afraid (GOOG, GOOGL)

  23-09-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon is expected to become the third largest digital advertiser, behind Facebook and Google, according to eMarketer researchers.
  But as the company's market share of the ad and retail business continues to expand, the company may run into the same kind of scrutiny that has dogged other large ad platforms, such as Google's. 
  Some observers already see behavior that makes it difficult for smaller third-party manufacturers that sell through Amazon to compete.The retailer's ad business is gro
  
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• 13 rules to help your business survive a game-changing tech threat, by an exec who went through it firsthand

  23-09-2018 14:54 via feedproxy.google.com
   
  To hear the experts tell it, if your business is connected to healthcare, energy, financial services manufacturing or call centers, then there's a chance you'll soon be toast.
  A group of companies, including Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and Intel are investing big money to develop artificial intelligence and other game-changing technology. These new AI superpowers are expected to pay your industry a visit in the not-so-distant future, leaving key parts of your product o
  
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• Beware the 'perfect storm' brewing in stocks — one that could send the market crashing at any moment

  23-09-2018 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  As stocks continue to make record highs, the narrow leadership in major indexes is masking weakness lurking under the surface.
  Vincent Deluard, a macro strategist at INTL FCStone, says a correction could rock the vulnerable stock market within the next few weeks due to a "perfect storm" of bearish factors.At this point it's common knowledge that the stock market is being driven higher by an elite cabal of high-flying companies.
  That equity Illuminati includes such companies as Apple, Amazon, Mic
  
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• JPMorgan says Trump's trade war is 'dimming the prospects for large scale M&A' (JPM)

  23-09-2018 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  JPMorgan's Global Co-head of M&A: "A prolonged trade war will, of course, mean large cross-border deals are more difficult and harder to get across the line."
  "We’re already seeing signs that geopolitical risks, including trade tensions, are dimming the prospects for large-scale M&A going into next year."
  Global M&A activity has been buoyant so far this year but large, cross-border deals have markedly declined.LONDON — Rising geopolitical tensions and the escalating trade
  
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