Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Thomas Moynihan speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters U.S. consumers and businesses alike have turned cautious on spending this year because of elevated inflation … Read more
Wells Fargo is breaking out of its lending roots. The bank has quietly gone on a hiring spree to grab a bigger slice of the profitable investment banking business long dominated by its Wall Street rivals. Since the start of 2023, a CNBC analysis found that Wells Fargo made at least 17 senior-level hires in … Read more
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled Annual Oversight of Wall Street Firms, in the Hart Building on Dec. 6, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Jamie Dimon thinks shares of JPMorgan Chase are expensive. That was the message the … Read more
Big US bond investors have been aggressively shifting money into long-dated notes, betting that the unloved asset class will be one of the winners from eventual interest rate cuts. The largest 20 mutual fund managers in the US have increased duration over the past two months as yields climbed, according to research by JPMorgan Chase … Read more
Billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla’s Hindalco Industries Ltd. is considering seeking about $1.2 billion in a planned initial public offering of US aluminum products maker Novelis Inc., people familiar with the matter said, in what could be one of the year’s biggest share sales. Hindalco may target a valuation of about $18 billion for Atlanta-based Novelis, … Read more
A customer walks through The Home Depot store on February 20, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images The state of the consumer in 2024 is already taking shape — even before the country’s major retailers begin to report first-quarter earnings, starting with Home Depot and Walmart next week. There are signs that … Read more
Tim Cook and Warren Buffett Getty Images (L) | CNBC (R) Berkshire Hathaway‘s Warren Buffett was still using a flip phone as late as 2020, four years after his investment behemoth started amassing a huge stake in the company that makes iPhones. “I don’t understand the phone at all, but I do understand consumer behavior,” … Read more
Warren Buffett tours the grounds at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha Nebraska. David A. Grogan | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway, led by legendary investor Warren Buffett, has been making a confidential wager on the financial industry since the third quarter of last year. The identity of the stock — or stocks — that … Read more
Ted Pick, CEO Morgan Stanley, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 18th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Morgan Stanley is set to report first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings: $1.66 a share, according to LSEG Revenue: $14.41 billion … Read more
Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Thomas Moynihan testifies during a Wall Street oversight hearing by the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 6, 2023. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Bank of America is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Tuesday. … Read more
