Tag: Wall
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Man who spent $6.2 million on banana duct-taped to wall says he’s going to eat it
Grocery inflation just hit its peak after a single banana was sold for $6.2 million on Wednesday. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun dropped over $6 million on the piece of produce — because it was duct-taped to a wall. The banana is part of a piece of artwork called “Comedian,” created by the Italian artist and…
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DNA testing reveals skull found in a wall belonged to teen who died 150 years ago
DNA testing has revealed that a skull found decades ago in the wall of an Illinois house belonged to an 18-year-old woman who died just after the American Civil War. Officials in Kane County told a news conference Thursday that a skull discovered during renovations at a property in Batavia, west of Chicago, in 1978…
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Morgan Stanley expands OpenAI-powered chatbot tools to Wall Street division
Morgan Stanley is expanding the use of OpenAI-powered, generative artificial intelligence tools to its vaunted investment banking and trading division, CNBC has learned. The firm, which launched an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology to its wealth management advisors in early 2023, began rolling out another version called AskResearchGPT this summer in its institutional securities group, said…
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Democrats brace for a crack in Blue Wall and signs of North Carolina slipping
The “blue wall” states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania have paved the path to the White House for the last two Democratic presidents. But with just 14 days until the Nov. 5 election, there are concerns within Kamala Harris’ campaign about whether the vice president can claim all three states. Recent discussions have centered on…
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Lucid CEO says Wall Street misinterpreted $1.75 billion capital raise
DETROIT — Investors misinterpreted a public offering last week by Lucid Group that raised roughly $1.75 billion — and led to the stock’s worst daily performance in nearly three years — CEO Peter Rawlinson told CNBC. Rawlinson said the raise, which included a public offering of nearly 262.5 million shares of its common stock, was a timely, strategic business…
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Kamala Harris rallies in a Pennsylvania bellwether county as she focuses on ‘blue wall’ states
ERIE, Pa. — Kamala Harris will rally voters Monday in Erie County, a bellwether that has a knack for predicting who carries Pennsylvania, having mirrored the outcome of this crucial battleground state in the last four elections. The Democratic vice president’s trip kicks off a campaign blitz this week in a trio of Northern battlegrounds…
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Both Trump and Harris say they’ll build more border wall. In this county, the parts have been waiting, and rusting, since 2021.
Back in 2018, Kamala Harris and other Democrats labeled then-President Donald Trump’s wall a vanity project that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars. Harris even went so far as to post online that the barrier was “un-American.” Now, as a candidate for president, her border security plan includes filling in strategic sections of the wall along…
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Huge ad spending pours into defining Harris in the ‘blue wall’ battlegrounds
Money talks. And right now, the presidential campaigns’ dollars are talking about the “blue wall” — and about defining Kamala Harris. More than half of every dollar spent on ads in the presidential race from Sept. 1 to 20 were spent in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — with Pennsylvania alone drawing 1 of every 4…
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In effort to shore up blue wall, Harris eyes Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — The battle for one of the closest swing states is intensifying as Vice President Kamala Harris sweeps into this deep blue college town and state capital Friday for an evening rally. This week, several new polls in Wisconsin showed an extremely tight race. Harris fared slightly better than former President Donald Trump —…
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JPMorgan creates new role overseeing junior bankers as Wall Street wrestles with workload concerns
JPMorgan Chase has created a new global role overseeing all junior bankers in an effort to better manage their workload after the death of a Bank of America associate in May forced Wall Street to examine how it treats its youngest employees. The firm named Ryland McClendon its global investment banking associate and analyst leader in a memo sent this month, CNBC…