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In this article VRA VERA A woman walks past JPMorgan Chase & Co’s international headquarters on Park Avenue in New York. Andrew Burton | Reuters JPMorgan Chase‘s new healthcare unit has made its first investment, CNBC has learned exclusively. The bank has agreed to invest $50 million in Vera Whole Health, a Seattle-based start-up that

Vanguard signage at a Morningstar Investment Conference. M. Spencer Green | AP Vanguard is offering its employees $1,000 to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the company has confirmed. The asset management giant follows Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other employers calling on workers to get the coronavirus vaccine amid growing concerns about the fast spread of the

SpaceX added subscribers to its Starlink satellite internet service, with Elon Musk’s company saying it now serves about 90,000 users around the world. The company gave an update on Starlink’s growth in a July 29 call with Federal Communications Commission officials, noting that the service now has users in 12 countries. The new user total,

SpaceX rolls out Super Heavy Booster 4 in preparation for the company’s first orbital Starship launch. Elon Musk SpaceX on Tuesday rolled out the rocket booster that the company plans to use to launch the first Starship orbital flight, and Elon Musk shared photos of the enormous vehicle. A look inside SpaceX’s high bay after

Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The head of the SEC says that crypto assets need a lot more regulation before they can move forward. Speaking at the

In this article RKT Signage for Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans is displayed on a laptop computer in an arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Rocket Companies jumped as much as 8% on Monday after the

Tesla’s Model Y compact crossover vehicles at a showroom in Shanghai, China, on January 18, 2021. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Earnings season is well underway, as a number of mega-cap tech names released their financial results this past week. However, there’s still plenty more to come as several companies have yet

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor on Friday defended his enterprise software company’s debt-financed purchases of bitcoin, telling CNBC he sees buying the cryptocurrency right now as comparable to investing in Facebook in the social network’s early days. “We’ve got $2.2 billion of debt and we pay about 1.5% interest, and we have a very long time

Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, introduces a new lunar landing module called Blue Moon during an event at the Washington Convention Center, May 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson | Getty Images The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with Jeff Bezos that NASA wrongly awarded a lucrative

People exit the headquarters of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it will now require additional disclosures from Chinese companies seeking a listing on U.S. stock exchanges, following Beijing’s intensified crackdown on oversea share issuance. “In light of

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, June 25, 2021. Source: NYSE We’re halfway through second-quarter earnings. The results not only continue to beat forecasts by a wide margin, but estimates for the third and fourth quarter — and now even for 2022 — are continuing to rise. And most say estimates

A worker hoists a flight chain at the Calder Brothers’ facility in Taylors, South Carolina, U.S., July 19, 2021. Brandon Granger | Calder Brothers Corporation | Reuters The U.S. economy is now larger than it was before the pandemic, but its growth rate may have peaked this year at a much slower pace than expected.

Traders wearing masks work inside posts, on the first day of in-person trading since the closure during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 26, 2020. Brendan McDermid | Reuters For a few glorious weeks, Wall Street employees who were

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday held its benchmark interest rate near zero and said the economy continues to progress despite concerns over the pandemic spread. As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee concluded its two-day meeting by keeping interest rates in a target range near zero. Along with that, the committee reiterated its view that

Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images The U.S. Marshals Service, one of the primary law enforcement agencies of the Department of Justice, has hired custodian Anchorage Digital for cryptocurrency seized or forfeited in various criminal cases. The Marshals Service has spent more than a year seeking a custodian and financial services provider for its stockpile of

In this article GNRC A worker inspects a 24-kilowatt Generac home generator at Captain Electric on February 18, 2021 in Orem, Utah. George Frey | Getty Images Shares of backup power company Generac fell more than 12% on Wednesday at the lows after the company warned about ongoing supply chain constraints and inflationary pressures. The

In this article TKWY-NL An employee makes a pizza next to a Just Eat Plc branded delivery bag in the kitchen of The Fat Pizza takeaway pizza restaurant in Southend-on-Sea, U.K., on Thursday, Dec 19, 2019. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — Just Eat Takeaway.com is one of Europe’s biggest food delivery

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, speaks during a TV interview in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images The boss of cryptocurrency exchange Binance says he’s willing to step down from his role as the company seeks to become a regulated financial institution. Speaking at a virtual press

In this article UPS Tournament employees work to squeegee the court after rain delays a match between Kim Clijsters and Sloane Stephens during the Truist Atlanta Open at Atlantic Station on July 26, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Casey Sykes | Getty Images Shares of logistics company UPS fell sharply on Tuesday after the company’s second-quarter

(Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) For more than a decade, the stock market has been shrinking, thanks to share buybacks, leveraged buyouts, cash-based M&A and bankruptcies. That’s all changed recently with the massive supply of IPOs — both of traditional companies as well as SPACs.  Patrick Healy, CEO of private equity firm