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Closely followed market watcher Dennis Gartman says billionaire Boone Pickens’ prediction that the bottom is in for oil is off base. “It’s a supply circumstance. You can see it in the term structure of the futures market on Friday, when you had a strong rally, the back months led the way up,” Gartman told CNBC’s “Fast Money” traders on Monday. “That’s not how bull markets function, that’s how bear markets function, and I think Mr. Pickens, a hero of mine, is wrong.” Pickens, who built Mesa Petroleum into a powerhouse and founded BP Capital Management, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on…
Once predicted to challenge Apple in the smartphone market, Windows phones have sunk to barely 1 percent of the world’s smartphones, according to new data released by Gartner. Meanwhile, Android’s market share now tops 80 percent. If you’re a Windows Phone or Windows 10 Mobile owner, the news is grim: Microsoft and its partners sold 4.3 million phones worldwide during the fourth quarter, good for a 1.1 percent market share. That’s less than half of what the platform sold a year ago, whenWindows phones owned 2.8 percent share. Only BlackBerry, Tizen, and other has-been operating systems are lower; BlackBerry’s share…
After a long wait, Microsoft is giving Windows Insiders some major new features to play around with, after spending the past couple of months primarily making backend improvements to its new operating system. The company released build 14267 to early adopters who are a part of the WindowsInsider Program’s Fast ring on Thursday morning, offering new features in Cortana,Microsoft Edge and Skype. Cortana now has a dedicated button in the assistant’s right-hand corner that people can use to detect what music is playing around them at any given time. Microsoft Edge received a number of improvements, including a setting that…
he U.S. presidential election season began with the Iowa caucuses Monday. Are there any trends that emerge in the stock market during election years? Using Kensho, a hedge fund analytics tool, CNBC Pro looked at election years since 1992 and screened for which securities outperform the market. One sector stands out and for good reason… [“source -cncb”]
t to attach the Hot Band to a Pebble, too. The audio fob flips open from the band, and then you hold your palm up to your ear to amplify the sound. The effect looks like a game of pretend Telephone, which is a little bizzare. But in a demo last week in New York City, I heard for myself the audio quality, both when accepting a phone call and when trying to overhear Hamid’s conversation. I couldn’t hear what the person on the other end was saying to Hamid, though he was sitting just across the table from me,…
Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Pfizer — The drug maker earned an adjusted 53 cents per share for the fourth quarter, 1 cent above estimates, with revenue also beating forecasts. Pfizer was helped by demand for its pneumonia vaccine and its recent acquisition of Hospira. However, Pfizer did forecast full-year 2016 earnings that are slightly below Street forecasts. Michael Kors — The luxury goods maker beat estimates by 13 cents with adjusted quarterly profit of $1.59 per share, and revenue also came in above forecasts. Kors was helped by particular strength in accessories and footwear.…
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There’s nothing like raging success to bring on a pack of competitors, and that’s exactly what’s now happening in the enterprise-collaboration arena. Ever since the public launch of its team-communication software two years ago, Slack has taken enterprises by storm, propelled by its freemium business model and plenty ofinvestor enthusiasm. Today, it claims 2.3 million daily active users, more than 675,000 paid seats and over US$64 million in annual recurring revenue. Other companies smell opportunity. Two new contenders entered the scene this week, both hoping to claim a piece of the pie for themselves. On Wednesday, it was SpotCues with…
Traders have been speculating for several weeks that a part of the global selling in stocks that started in December may be due to oil-related sovereign wealth funds selling assets in order to make up for the shortfall in revenues due to the decline in oil. We are starting to get some data that indicates that at least part of the selling may indeed be due to this type of selling, particularly regarding the weakness we have seen in financials. Oil-related SWFs have significant assets. The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute estimates that the assets under management of the largest oil-producing…