Meta Platforms raised its capex guidance for 2024. META stock sinks 10% following the earnings release afterhours. Zuckerberg is focused on artficial intelligence developments. NASDAQ, S&P 500 traded flat to down for much of Wednesday regular session.   This must be “opposites” week. While Doppelganger Tesla (TSLA) rode horrible misses on Tuesday to…

Major cryptocurrency investors, colloquially known as “whales,” have been accumulating the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Ethereum ($ETH), adding nearly $500 million worth of it to their stashes over the last few weeks. According to data shared by popular on-chain analysis service Lookonchain, large cryptocurrency whales have been accumulating the…

Meta shares plunged 16% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company issued a light forecast, which overshadowed better-than-expected first-quarter results.Here are the key numbers:Earnings per share: $4.71 per share vs. $4.32 per share expected by LSEGRevenue: $36.46 billion vs. $36.16 billion expected by LSEGRevenue increased 27% from $28.65 billion…

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Whether the legal system can hold Donald Trump accountable for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election has been an evolving conversation among courts across the country. On Thursday, the Supreme Court will enter the chat. The high court is by no means bound by how other federal courts have interpreted the legitimacy of Trump’s post-election conduct. But if the justices decide that Trump’s attempts to reverse his loss were in the realm of official presidential conduct, they’ll be rebuffing the assessments of a broad swath of lower court judges – appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents alike – who have…

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Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall. Ford, like most automakers, has announced plans to…