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William Dahl

Benzinga Staff Writer

March 24, 2023 1:05 PM
Warren Buffett arrived in Sun Valley, Idaho, with an unpopular warning — one the visionaries in the room were in no mood to hear. The tech leade ...
March 14, 2023 11:31 AM
If a time machine could take you back to the start of the 2000s — without the desire to open up a crypto wallet — what’s the No. 1 i ...
March 13, 2023 11:58 AM
In August, California passed a law to phase out gas-powered cars and trucks by 2035. Now it’s taking aim at millions of lawn mowers in the Golde ...
March 09, 2023 12:00 PM
Possibly no investing legend is more polarizing than financier George Soros. Anyone who donates millions of dollars to further political agendas aroun ...
March 08, 2023 4:21 PM
You probably haven’t heard of Coke County, Texas. Out of thousands of counties in America, it’s one of the smallest, with just 3,300 resid ...
March 07, 2023 12:26 PM
Chances are, you saw headlines previously about Congress needing a 15th round of voting to elect Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.  That&rsquo ...
March 01, 2023 3:37 PM
The S&P 500 dipped by 19% in 2022, but stocks still don’t seem cheap to Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s billionaire partner at Berksh ...
March 01, 2023 3:01 PM
Add up the market valuation of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), all the cryptos in the world and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos’s fortune, and you get to ove ...
March 01, 2023 1:26 PM
In late 2008, markets were in freefall as the global financial system was on life support. Lawmakers were debating spending trillions of dollars to st ...
February 24, 2023 3:55 PM
On Aug. 16, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, directing billions of dollars to Americans looking to upgrade their homes ...
February 22, 2023 1:24 PM
Microsoft Corp. Co-Founder Bill Gates became a billionaire in 1987 at age 31. He was the youngest self-made billionaire until Meta Platforms Inc. CEO ...
February 22, 2023 11:41 AM
Ronald Reid was the last person you would expect to be a millionaire. He used safety pins to hold his old coats together and cut his own firewood well ...
February 20, 2023 11:36 AM
In August, California passed a law to phase out gas-powered cars and trucks by 2035. Now it’s taking aim at millions of lawn mowers in the Golde ...
February 16, 2023 11:44 AM
Microsoft Corp. Founder Bill Gates fielded charges of hypocrisy in a BBC interview after a broadcaster asked how he squared his extensive and carbon-h ...
February 16, 2023 9:45 AM
Add up the market valuation of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), all the cryptos in the world and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos’s fortune, and you get to ove ...
February 16, 2023 9:38 AM
For 79 years, if you wanted the right to invest in early-stage companies like Apple in the 1970s, Facebook in 2004, or Airbnb in 2009, you had to be a ...
February 15, 2023 12:21 PM
The success of the artificial intelligence (AI) search engine ChatGPT, which recently reached 100 million users, led Google’s management to offi ...
February 14, 2023 1:42 PM
ChatGPT signed up its 100 millionth user recently, a milestone reached just 64 days after its Nov. 30 launch.  It took Facebook 4½ years t ...
February 09, 2023 11:05 AM
Microsoft Corp. Founder Bill Gates fielded charges of hypocrisy in a BBC interview this week after a broadcaster asked how he squared his extensive an ...
February 08, 2023 1:31 PM
Billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban has founded or invested early in hundreds of startup companies over the years. But only one of them, founded ...
February 08, 2023 12:50 PM
The top-performing stock on the S&P 500 over the last five years isn’t Tesla Inc. It’s not a meme stock soaring thanks to an army of R ...
February 08, 2023 12:45 PM
Last year was one most investors would like to forget. Stocks suffered their worst year since the 2008 financial crisis, while bonds fared worse than ...
February 07, 2023 1:55 PM
If you came of age around 2007, chances are you don’t remember a time when banks offered you a significant interest rate on your savings. Since ...
February 03, 2023 11:52 AM
​​In 2012, an aspiring world leader stood on a stage and called Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), formerly Tesla Motors, a loser. The man — Mitt Ro ...
February 02, 2023 11:50 AM
Shares of the digital media company BuzzFeed Inc. (NASDAQ: BZFD) jumped 92% in one trading day after The Wall Street Journal broke the news of the com ...
February 02, 2023 11:44 AM
America’s drug manufacturers are bracing for a grim reality: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, their biggest critic in the U.S. Senate, wielding the ...
February 01, 2023 12:01 PM
Billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban has founded or invested early in hundreds of startup companies over the years. But only one of them, founded ...
February 01, 2023 10:37 AM
The S&P 500 dipped by 19% in 2022, but stocks still don’t seem cheap to Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s billionaire partner at Berksh ...
February 01, 2023 10:15 AM
“Berkshire will always be building.” So said Warren Buffett in his latest annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in February. Mo ...
January 31, 2023 2:03 PM
When Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com Inc. as an online bookseller in 1994, he thought his company would probably fail. And he was upfront about it with ...