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Cramer’s charts indicate Nvidia’s stock could be due for a pullback

As the stock of semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia tumbled in after-hours trading on news of a Tesla-AMD partnership focused on self-driving cars, CNBC’s Jim Cramer had to figure out what to do next. Shares of Nvidia hit an all-time high on Monday following several analyst upgrades that cited the company’s promising …

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Sen. Graham overheard on phone call imploring colleague to vote for GOP health bill

David A. Grogan | CNBC GOP Candidate Lindsey Graham on stage during the GOP Debate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado on October 28, 2015. In an overheard phone call Wednesday, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham leaned on a fellow senator to back his GOP health care bill despite …

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France’s Macron says hasn’t given up on convincing Trump on nuclear deal

Charles Platiau | Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump attend the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France, July 14, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron said he had not yet given up on convincing U.S. President Donald Trump to change his view …

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Twyla Tharp Presents 47 Years of Choreography. And Performs, Too.

Until 1970, Ms. Tharp was an experimentalist who made dances without music. It remains remarkable how quickly she established herself as a musical choreographer, and a daring one, too. Often in “The Raggedy Dances” she leaves passages of dancy music unused, but elsewhere her troupe moves through the silent breaks …

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Facebook signs San Francisco lease for up to 3,000 workers

Stephen Lam | Reuters Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the annual Facebook F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 18, 2017. Facebook will lease all of the office space in a skyscraper under construction in downtown San Francisco, a new report says, as …

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Not much will stop Federal Reserve from normalizing: Peter Boockvar

Joshua Roberts | Reuters Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference after a two-day Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) policy meeting, in Washington, September 20, 2017. The Fed also forecast three rate increases in 2018 and two in 2019 and provided a timetable for how the balance-sheet …

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New Trailer: ‘Tomb Raider’ Aims to Mint a New Action Star

Photo An image from the trailer for “Tomb Raider,” starring Alicia Vikander. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A few years after winning an Academy Award for best supporting actress, a rising star makes the leap to above-the-title action heroine as Lara Croft from the video game “Tomb …

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Rafael Corrales of CRV on why ICOs are hot

Philippe Lopez | AFP | Getty Images A man walks out of a shop displaying a bitcoin sign during the opening ceremony of the first bitcoin retail shop in Hong Kong on February 28, 2014. Even if you’re skeptical about cryptocurrencies, but the ICO, or initial coin offering, has been …

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Trump endorses Graham-Cassidy, GOP senators’ Obamacare repeal plan

Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Senator Lindsey Graham (2nd R), R-SC, stands with Senator Bill Cassidy (L), R-LA, Senator Dean Heller (2nd L), R-NV, and Senator Ron Johnson (R), R-WI, to announce their legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, …

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Tesla building an AI chip for its cars with AMD, GlobalFoundries

Tesla is getting closer to having its own chip for handling autonomous driving tasks in its cars. The carmaker has received back samples of the first implementation of its processor and is now running tests on it, said a source familiar with the matter. The effort to build its own …

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