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2024-09-15

Harris’ rise in polls sparks wave of wealth transfers to kids

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Dimensions | E+ | Getty Images A 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. The tightening presidential race has touched off a wave of tax planning by ultra-wealthy investors, especially given fears of a higher…

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2024-09-14

Activist Engine Capital pushes for new board at Upwork, takes 4% stake

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Close-up of sign at entrance to Silicon Valley headquarters of outsourcing and freelancing company Upwork, Mountain View, California, May 3, 2019.  Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Activist investor Engine Capital has a roughly 4% stake in freelance marketplace Upwork and is pushing for a shakeup to the company’s board. In a letter to Upwork’s…

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2024-09-14

Boeing factory workers strike for first time since 2008

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Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.  M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing‘s factory workers walked off the job after midnight on Friday, halting production of the company’s bestselling airplanes after staff overwhelmingly rejected a new labor contract. It’s a costly…

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2024-09-13

Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google leaders meet with White House to talk AI

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Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and several American power and utility companies met Thursday at the White House to discuss the future of artificial intelligence energy infrastructure in the U.S., sources familiar with the meeting told CNBC. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft president Brad Smith, Google President Ruth Porat…

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2024-09-13

Boeing faces strike threat as workers vote on new contract

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A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is assembled at the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington, on June 25, 2024. Jennifer Buchanan | Afp | Getty Images Boeing workers are voting on a new labor contract Thursday, setting up the potential for a crippling strike that the company’s CEO said would jeopardize the struggling plane-maker’s recovery. The tentative agreement that…

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2024-09-13

FTX exec Ryan Salame threatened with sanctions for lying

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Former FTX executive Ryan Salame outside of U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Sept. 12, 2024 MacKenzie Sigalos | CNBC A furious federal judge on Thursday threatened to slap unspecified sanctions on former FTX executive Ryan Salame for lying to him last year when he pleaded guilty to campaign finance and money transmitting crimes. Salame at a hearing Thursday in U.S….

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2024-09-13

$1 billion in cost cuts, 10 product launches planned

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Moderna headquarters, exterior view, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.  Plexi Images | GHI | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday said it plans to cut around $1.1 billion in expenses by 2027 and win approvals for several new products as it charts a path forward after the rapid decline of its Covid business.  The biotech company said…

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2024-09-12

Eli Lilly to boost output of weight loss, diabetes, Alzheimer’s drugs

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A sign with the company logo sits outside of the headquarters of Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 17, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Eli Lilly on Thursday said it will invest $1.8 billion to boost manufacturing for its newly approved Alzheimer’s drug and highly popular weight loss and diabetes treatments, among other medicines, in Ireland.  The pharmaceutical…

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