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Nike (NKE) is making more money. Yet the company is transforming its marketing strategy. For example, Nike ended is ending its 27-year partnership with golf legend Tiger Woods. Woods has been a Nike (NKE) spokesperson since 1996. The latest Wood-Nike deal signed in 2013 was worth $200 million. Yet the company let Tiger go in 2023.   Skeptics will note Woods is aging and no longer dominating…

Boeing (BA) is in big trouble because of a terrifying accident. Pieces full off a 10-week-old 737 Max 9 airliner minutes after takeoff. A refrigerator sized hole opened in the 737’s fuselage, causing pieces of seats, phones, and a passenger’s shirt to get sucked out. CNN reports the Alaska Airlines plane was leaving Portland, Oregon, for Ontario, California, when the hole…

Value investors will wonder if Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is a super bargain because Mr. Market paid $24.26 for its shares on 4 January 2024. Yet the company claims to operate over 12,500 drugstores in eight countries. Its holdings include over 8,700 retail locations in the US and Puerto Rico. Plus, WBA owns two of the world’s best-known pharmacy brands, America’s Walgreens and Britain’s…

Mr. Market thinks Okta (OKTA) can make money from an identity cloud. Okta had an $85.27 share price on 20 December 2023. Okta offers cloud-based Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions. For example, its Customer Identity Cloud provides authentication, verification, and other services for organizations. Both consumer apps and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps provide identity…

A possible fusion breakthrough at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) is fueling a startup company. A tantalum metal cold-spray coating could help stainless steel withstand the extremely high-temperatures inside fusion reactors, UW researchers claim. To create fusion, reactors need to heat plasma to temperatures over 150 million degrees Celsius. This creates dangers because the plasma…

Frighteningly, Salesforce’s (CRM) co-founder and co-CEO, Marc Benioff, is selling large blocks of the company’s stock almost each day. Benioff has been selling 15,000 shares of Salesforce (CRM) each day since July, Bloomberg claims. Hence, I calculate Benioff made around $3.858 million a day selling stock. If Salesforce’s share price matched the $257.21 Mr. Market paid for it on 14 December…

Jito (JTO) is a blockchain that helps traders and validators increase MEV. Theoretically, Jito helps validators, traders, stakers, and others make money from the Solana (SOL) blockchain. MEV can stand for “maximal extractable value,” “miner’s extractable value,” and “maximum extractable value.” Basically, means extracting the most value from blockchain transactions. They claim, Jito Labs’…

Inspect (INSP) is a Layer 2 blockchain built to work with X, the social media formerly known as Twitter. They claim Inspect can turn X into a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. For example, they claim users could trade cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and research crypto on X with Inspect. For instance, they claim Inspect users could receive real-time social media data and NFT…

Interestingly, Amazon Web Services (AWS) could make Solana (SOL), the world’s most valuable blockchain. Developers can deploy Solana nodes as a code app in the AWS Blockchain Node Runners repository. They claim developers can deploy Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) nodes with minimal effort and a low cost. Hence, developers can connect AWS decentralized apps (dApps) to Solana’s blockchain.…

NVIDIA (NVDA) could be the world’s most lucrative company. Its revenues grew by an astonishing 205.51% in the quarter ending on 31 October 2023. NVIDIA’s quarterly revenues grew from $5.931 billion on 31 October 2022 to $18.120 billion on 31 October 2023. Similarly, NVIDIA’s quarterly gross profit grew from $3.177 billion on 31 October 2022 to $13.40 billion on 31 October 2023. Plus, the…

Microsoft (MSFT) stock is surging. Its share price rose from $245.58 on 22 November 2022 to $376.44 on 24 November 2023. Hence, Microsoft added $132.27 in share value in a year. Interestingly, most of this growth occurred before Microsoft hired former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Sensibly, Microsoft staff had an office ready for Altman at its San Francisco location before his firing, Business Insider…

Mr. Market thinks you can make money from Price Feed Oracles. For example, Pyth Network (PYTH) was CoinMarketCap’s most-trending cryptocurrency on 21 November 2023. Pyth is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that lets users publish pricing information on the blockchain. A price oracle is any tool that lets users view price information. All DeFi protocols need price oracles because their…

Uncharacteristically, Warren Buffett is betting against the US economy. To explain, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) sold all of its stock in several iconic American companies. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) sold 100% of its General Motors (GM), United Parcel Service (UPS), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), and Procter & Gamble (PG) shares in the third quarter of 2023, Investors.com reports. Hence, Berkshire is…

Small modular nuclear reactors could be unprofitable. NuScale halted construction on a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) after a partner pulled out. NuScale (NYSE: SMR) and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) terminated an agreement to build an SMR in Idaho, on 8 November 2023, a press release announces. The termination ends the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) which was building a 77…

Seedify.fund (SFUND) is a decentralized investment banking protocol for blockchain ventures. However, Seedify.fund’s developers do not call their protocol to a bank. Instead, they call Seedify.fund an incubator or seed fund. To explain, a seed fund provides the initial fund, or seed money, for new decentralized finance projects. In contrast, an incubator is an organization that provides funding…

Interest in an obscure cryptocurrency they call Ordinals (ORDI) is surging. For example, Ordinals were CoinMarketCap’s most-trending cryptocurrency on 8 November 2023. Notably, CoinMarketCap gave Ordinals a $17.73 Coin Price on 9 November 2023. So what are Ordinals and are they worth $17.73? Ordinals are a cryptocurrency that uses ordinal theory as a numbering scheme for Satoshis. Ordinal theory…

Data shows the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike is hurting Ford (F). Revenues, profits, and income fell during strike. For example, Ford’s quarterly revenues fell from $44.954 billion on 30 June 2023 to $43.801 billion on 30 September 2023. UAW walkouts at Ford began on 15 September 2023. Thus revenues fell before the strike began. Comparatively, Ford’s revenues fell from $40.190 billion on 30…