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Morgan Stanley (MS 0.36%), a global financial services provider known for its investment banking, wealth management, and trading operations, posted second quarter results on July 16, 2025. The company reported earnings per share of $2.13, outpacing analyst expectations of $1.98, and revenue of $16.8 billion versus an anticipated $16.07 billion. Profitability and revenue climbed 17 […]
Aiming to hit the credit-score ceiling? Going by the FICO® Score system, 850 is the highest credit score possible. It means lenders see you as a super low-risk borrower with a long track record of paying bills on time, using credit responsibly, and keeping your balance low. But you don’t need a perfect 850 to […]
Even in well-secured environments, attackers are getting in—not with flashy exploits, but by quietly taking advantage of weak settings, outdated encryption, and trusted tools left unprotected. These attacks don’t depend on zero-days. They work by staying unnoticed—slipping through the cracks in what we monitor and what we assume is safe. What once looked suspicious now […]
Posted July 20, 2025 by Ben Carlson The 1980s and 1990s bull market was an all-timer, perhaps the greatest of all-time for U.S. stocks.1 The S&P 500 was up nearly 18% per year for two decades straight.2 The bull market of the 2010s and 2020s hasn’t reached those heights but we’ve still seen above-average double-digit […]
As a middle-aged guy, I’m a sucker for the real estate section in The Wall Street Journal. They had a story this past week about the sale of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s Central Park apartment in Manhattan. Nice view if you can get it: The place was listed for just shy of $10 million but […]
Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground. According to Inc., the current cost of CO2 removal with the company is $350 per ton. If you multiply that by Microsoft’s […]
from the injustice-league dept Back when the COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out, to the surprise of nobody intelligent, fraud schemes around vaccination cards began to pop up. Groups, including some doctors, were illegally handing out vaccination cards without actually vaccinating anyone. One of those doctors, according to charges brought by the DOJ, was Michael […]
Why, pray tell, would the nation’s biggest public pension fund that also runs its own health insurance program hire a general counsel with no experience whatsoever in investment management, financial regulatory compliance, insurance, government public disclosure and other state agency requirements, and instead had been a private sector criminal defense attorney? Oh, and by credible […]
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Cryptocurrencies are rounding into form. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, hit fresh all-time highs of more than $123,000 on July 14. The asset’s run has also sent a jolt into Ethereum (ETH 4.66%), which shot up to almost $3,500 per token on July 17 after having a difficult year so far. Ethereum […]
