The increasing popularity of electric vehicles doesn’t threaten the U.S. power
grid, American Electric Power CEO Nick Akin told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday.
“It’s a means to speculate and have fun. But then you got to go back to stocks
at the end of the day,” global investor Mark Mobius told CNBC on Wednesday.
Frank Luntz, a GOP pollster and strategist, told CNBC on Tuesday that there’s
about an 80% chance that Republican Glenn Youngkin beats Democrat Terry
McAuliffe.
The CEO of Wyndham says that hotels are being booked at record numbers during
the weekend, and even during the week as business and leisure travel pick up.
“We’re on pace to have 10 million courses ready before the end of this year, and
more than double that next year,” Merck CEO Robert Davis told CNBC on Thursday.
At more than $1,000 as of Wednesday, Baron’s namesake investment firm holds
almost 6 million Tesla shares, on a cost of ownership basis at $42.88 each.
C.H. Robinson’s Robert Biesterfeld said Wednesday immigration could help
alleviate truck driver shortages that have increased 30% since before the
pandemic.
American Plastic Toys CEO John Gessert told CNBC on Monday he does not think
inflation will prove to be transitory, as Fed chief Jerome Powell has predicted.
The health minister of Trinidad and Tobago said Minaj’s tweet late Monday to her
more than 22 million followers sent the ministry on a wild goose chase.
The FDA released the data as the agency faces pressure from the Biden
administration to authorize booster shots for the general public as early as
next week.
