Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (from left), U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Managing Director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva and Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland chatting on the first day of the Group of Seven Finance Ministers Meeting at Lancaster House in London on June 4, 2021. Stefan Rousseau | AFP | Getty
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May’s job gains were “solid” but not enough to change the direction of monetary policy, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester told CNBC. “Bottom line, I would like to see further progress than where we are right now,” Mester told CNBC’s Steve Liesman during a live “Squawk on the Street” interview Friday. The Labor Department reported
Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said he expects to close his SPAC deal to buy 10% of Universal Music Group for around $4 billion later this month. Ackman’s blank-check company Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH) is likely to finish the transaction by June 22,
The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, MA is pictured on March 21, 2019. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images DocuSign – Shares of the electronic signature company surged 17% after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly earnings. DocuSign earned 44 cents per share on
Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Musk answered a range of questions relating to SpaceX projects during his appearance at the conference. Win McNamee | Getty Images Bitcoin’s price fell Friday morning after Elon Musk posted a tweet suggesting
A top investor expects volatility to dominate Wall Street for months. Amanda Agati, PNC Financial’s chief investment officer, lists stretched market valuations, Federal Reserve taper chatter and the end of stimulus checks as troubling forces in the market. “You have to pick and choose your exposures very, very carefully,” Agati said on CNBC’s “Trading Nation”
In this article GM Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Blackberry — Shares of the tech company were down 4% in midday trading after surging more than 20% shortly after the opening bell. Blackberry has become one of the most-discussed stocks on Reddit in recent days, which helped to fuel a rally.
Tinkoff, the biggest online bank in Russia, wants to offer cryptocurrency trading to its clients but says this will take time due to a tough stance from the country’s central bank. Oliver Hughes, Tinkoff’s CEO, said Thursday there were “qualified investors who know what they’re doing” who want to invest in crypto, but that his
Traders at the New York Stock Exchange, June 2, 2021. Source: NYSE U.S. stock futures were flat on Wednesday night following a quiet day of trading. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 8 points, or less than 0.1%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also gained marginally. During the regular session, the
An employee walks past a quilt displaying Etsy Inc. signage at the company’s headquarters in the Brooklyn. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images Etsy — Shares of the e-commerce company are up 6.9% midday after Etsy announced a $1.6 billion deal to buy fashion resale app Depop. The newly acquired business, which is based in
The flags of China, U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party are displayed in a flag stall at the Yiwu Wholesale Market in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China, May 10, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — China’s Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke Wednesday for the first time since President Joe
Investors may get relief from volatility this month. According to CFRA Research’s Sam Stovall, Wall Street just entered a historically calm month. “June really is sort of a lackluster month in terms of average returns [and] in terms of frequency of advance,” the firm’s chief investment strategist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday. But Stovall is
In this article CLDR MRO UAL BA AAL UNH COWN A pump jack operates at a well site leased by Devon Energy Production Co. near Guthrie, Oklahoma. Nick Oxford | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Devon Energy and Marathon Oil — Shares of Devon Energy and Marathon Oil jumped more
In this article ETH= BTC.BS=-USS TIGR FUTU In this photo illustration a Bitcoin logo seen displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages in the background. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images BEIJING — Two of China’s rivals to stock trading app Robinhood are looking to cryptocurrencies as a way to
In this article .SPX .IXIC .DJI Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE Stock futures are slightly lower in overnight trading after major indexes saw gains in May. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 30 points, or 0.09%. S&P 500 futures shed 0.09% and Nasdaq 100 futures ticked
Ruins of the Greenwood District after the massacre of African Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 1921. American National Red Cross photograph collection. GHI | Universal Images Group | Getty Images A century ago this week, the wealthiest U.S. Black community was burned to the ground. At the turn of the 20th century, the Greenwood
A worker is seen in the workshop of a factory manufacturing medical devices in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China. Reuters BEIJING — Chinese businesses are letting go of more workers than they are hiring, even though the economy is seeing some recovery from the pandemic, official data showed Monday. That’s based on a survey from the
In this article HPQ DELL ULTA CRM Signage on a Saleforce office building in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Salesforce — Salesforce shares jumped 5% in extended trading after the cloud-based software company posted
Workers load packages into delivery carts at a JD.com distribution center in Beijing on July 16, 2020. GREG BAKER | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING — In less than a year, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has raised more than $10 billion through public offerings in Hong Kong and New York. The listings involved JD’s subsidiaries
An AMC theatre is pictured amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 27, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Shares of AMC Entertainment jumped double digits in premarket trading on Friday as Reddit traders kept piling into the speculative name this week. The stock popped