Investment strategy

• Costco's quarterly beat isn't enough to knock out the bears — here's what could - The quarter looked pretty down the fairway, with beats across key line items — the membership renewal rate.
• Apple gets a big price target hike, and Wells Fargo plants a big dealmaking flag - Citigroup raises its price target on Apple stock. Wells Fargo wants to become a top player in Wall Street dealmaking.
• Here are the 2 big things we're watching in the stock market in the week ahead - We're in the final stretch of 2025 and entering a deciding week on Wall Street.
• $208 million wiped out: Yieldstreet investors rack up more losses as firm rebrands to Willow Wealth - Yieldstreet is attempting to move past a troubled track record by rebranding to Willow Wealth while customers reel from a still-unfolding collapse of its funds.
• Salesforce CEO calls AI a 'commodity feature', says the technology bolsters enterprise software - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told CNBC's Jim Cramer how his company uses AI.
• Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT - Anthropic, the AI startup behind the popular Claude chatbot, is reportedly in talks to launch one of the largest initial public offerings ever as 2025.
• Michael Burry calls Tesla 'ridiculously overvalued' and knocks tech industry for a widely used practice - "The Big Short" investor Michael Burry put Tesla's valuation in the spotlight.
• How to maximize the bigger SALT deduction for 2025 under Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ - President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" increased the SALT deduction limit to $40,000 for 2025. Here's how to maximize the tax break.
• Kalshi makes move to court crypto traders with tokenized betting contracts - Tokenization refers to creating a digital version of a real-world financial asset such as a stock, bond or treasury note.
• Forget AI spending — the biggest risk to this stock market is speculative junk - The idea that these alternative investments somehow create anything en masse is almost ludicrous.