By Qiaoyi Li and Kevin Krolicki BEIJING (Reuters) – China dominates the market for electric vehicles. Now it’s chasing Tesla in the race to build battery-powered humanoids expected to replace human workers building EVs on assembly lines. At the World Robot Conference this week in Beijing, over two dozen Chinese companies showed off humanoid robots…
“I went down to the crossroads“ – Cream We’re either making a double top or breaking out to new highs and that’s riding on the reading of the Fed Minutes, revisions to the Payroll Data and earnings from NVDA and Retailers, with Macy’s (M), Target (TGT) and TJX (TJX) all beating expectation but also all pointing…
The impact of a 10-20% tariff on America’s trading partners floated last week by Donald Trump has raised trade issues anew on the 2024 campaign trail. “It’s basically you hurt us and we hurt you,” Trump said Monday in Pennsylvania while discussing his desire to put up reciprocal tariffs on trading partners. “It’s an eye…
Morningstar recently released the latest edition of their Mind the Gap research. Once again, “allocation” funds (e.g., balanced funds, target-date funds, LifeStrategy funds) had the smallest gap (i.e., best investor returns relative to reported performance figures). Investors tend to just buy them and leave them alone, which is generally the best strategy. And again “sector”…
Update 8/14 Flash Sale for existing Pepper users: Pepper has 10X points on Amazon for 8/13 and 8/14 (as of 11am Pacific) for existing users. You get 4% back in points immediately and 6% back in points on 8/31/24. That works out to 10% off on Amazon gift cards, plus you still get whatever credit…