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For the past year, Keneth Byarugaba has been working as a runner for Worldcoin in Uganda. His job is to get as many people as possible to scan their eyeballs into a big metallic orb in exchange for about $60 worth of cryptocurrency. Runners, who are paid a commission based upon how many Ugandans they

The Tornado Cash website displayed on a laptop and smartphone screen arranged in London, U.K., on Tuesday, March 15, 2022.  Luke McGregor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Two founders of Tornado Cash, the widely known Russian cryptocurrency mixer, have been charged with laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds. In a newly unsealed indictment,

FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried, wearing prison clothing, stands between his attorneys Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell in Manhattan federal court where he plead guilty to seven criminal charges contained in a new indictment during a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in New York City, August 22, 2023 in a courtroom sketch.

Nuclear power has been touted as a proven, safe way of producing clean energy, but why isn’t it more widely adopted? Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images As the world pushes toward its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, nuclear power has been touted as the way to bridge the energy gap

Cavan Images | Getty Images As electric vehicles proliferate, some gas stations are making expensive overhauls to add EV charging stations.  In most cases, they aren’t scrapping traditional liquid fuel pumps. But select locations, including an RS Automotive in Takoma Park, Md., and a Shell station in Fulham, England, have made a full switch. Location,

SHENZHEN, CHINA – MARCH 09: View of high commercial and residential buildings on March 9, 2016 in Shenzhen, China. General economic slowdown continues in China while the property price and stock bubble faces risk. (Photo by Zhong Zhi/Getty Images) Zhong Zhi | Getty Images News | Getty Images A lead China official called for tighter

Since the CNBC Investing Club’s July Monthly Meeting, the stock market has seesawed up and then down on a slew of quarterly earnings results and inflation data. That’s left Wall Street struggling this month. Here’s a look at the best performers from the Club’s 36 holdings from the market close after the July 12 meeting

Here’s a rapid-fire update on all 36 stocks in Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the CNBC Investing Club. Jim ran through each stock during our August Monthly Meeting on Thursday. Apple (AAPL) : Apple didn’t have a perfect fiscal third quarter at the start of the month, but it didn’t need be

In this article OIH SMH NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Drilling rigs sit unused on a companies lot located in the Permian Basin area on March 13, 2022 in Odessa, Texas. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter.

In this article HE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Mercy Worldwide volunteer makes damage assessment of charred apartment complex in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 12, 2023. Yuki Iwamura | AFP | Getty Images Shares of Hawaiian Electric tumbled more than 35% on Monday amid Wall

Morgan Stanley’s decision Tuesday to boost its price target on XPO Logistics (XPO) to $65 a share, from $45, could signal a “new king” in the trucking-and-logistics industry, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said — even though he’s long been partial to Old Dominion (ODFL). Shares of XPO were trading down around 1% Tuesday morning, at roughly

In this article RWE-DE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An aerial view shows wind turbines at RWE’s Scroby Sands Wind Farm, off the coast of Great Yarmouth, eastern England, on February 15, 2023. Daniel Leal | Afp | Getty Images LONDON — An offshore wind turbine in the North Sea caught fire Tuesday, with

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. 1. U.S. stocks rose Monday, though they’re still having a rough August. Nvidia (NVDA), which has been slumping recently, jumped about 5.5% to start the week. Morgan Stanley reiterated Nvidia

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves from Manhattan Federal Court after court appearance in New York, on June 15, 2023. Fatih Aktas | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal team is asking a U.S. district court judge to grant the former FTX CEO “uninterrupted access” to his daily prescribed medication while he is in

In this article OIH SMH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An oil pumpjack pulls oil from the Permian Basin oil field on March 14, 2022 in Odessa, Texas. Joe Raedle | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed

The U.S. government is deploying trillions of dollars of stimulus money into infrastructure investments, boosting the prospects for a number of industrials in the Club portfolio. On the back of Covid’s impact on the economy, President Joe Biden enacted a slew of domestic funding bills in a bid to help the nation recover from labor

Indicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the U.S. Courthouse in New York City, July 26, 2023. Amr Alfiky | Reuters A New York judge will decide in a few hours from now whether to send Sam Bankman-Fried to jail. Federal prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to revoke the FTX founder’s bail

In this article SCHN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Radius Recycling CEO Tamara Lundgren pictured at the CNBC CEO Summit in May 2023. Randy Shropshire | CNBC One of the first questions Tamara Lundgren often heard when she introduced herself as the CEO of Schnitzer Steel is, “What kind of steel do you make?'”

During another busy week of earnings and stock market swings, we picked our spots and made six trades, including calling up a Bullpen name. We also changed two Club price targets. Here’s a day-by-day look. Monday The week started with a small Caterpillar (CAT) sale after a huge run and an initiation of a new

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan Federal Court for a court appearance in New York, United States on June 15, 2023.  Fatih Aktas/ | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Sam Bankman-Fried will head to jail on Friday after a judge sided with a request by federal prosecutors to revoke the FTX founder’s bail over