A bumpy ride to beating inflation

A bumpy ride to beating inflation

A trader works, as a screen displays a news conference by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell following the Fed rate announcement, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 31, 2024.  Brendan McDermid | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets … Read more

Cisco says it’s cutting 5% of workforce, amounting to over 4,000 jobs

Cisco says it’s cutting 5% of workforce, amounting to over 4,000 jobs

Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO & Chairman, at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on May 25th, 2022. Adam Galica | CNBC Cisco announced plans to cut 5% of its workforce on Wednesday, a decision that will result in the elimination of about 4,250 jobs. Shares were down 9% in extended trading. It’s the latest tech company to … Read more

5 things next week that could determine if Wall Street win streak continues

5 things next week that could determine if Wall Street win streak continues

Wall Street wrapped up another positive week, with the S & P 500 closing Friday above 5,000 for the first time ever. The Nasdaq finished less than 0.5% away from its November 2021 record-high close. It was another big week for Club company earnings, with Estee Lauder , Eli Lilly , GE Healthcare , DuPont … Read more

Earnings from Shopify, Marriott and Wendy’s

Earnings from Shopify, Marriott and Wendy’s

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday prepared investors for next week on Wall Street, saying investors should pay attention as earnings season continues, with reports from companies including Shopify, Marriott and Wendy’s. He also recommended researching retail stocks next week before the industry reports a slew of earnings results the week after. “Next week seems busy, … Read more

Inventory problems at Children’s Place chain could benefit TJX Companies

Inventory problems at Children’s Place chain could benefit TJX Companies

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible. Here is Friday’s edition. We came … Read more

Activists eyeing tech stocks ahead of expected M&A rebound after lull

Activists eyeing tech stocks ahead of expected M&A rebound after lull

Paul Singer speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Activist investors are circling the tech market. That’s because, after a two-year plunge in mergers and acquisitions across the industry, there are signs of life to start 2024, with expectations that many more deals are … Read more

HPE to acquire Juniper Networks for $14 billion

HPE to acquire Juniper Networks for  billion

Antonio Neri, president and chief executive officer of Hewitt Packerd Enterprise (HPE), speaks during the HPE Discovery CIO Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. The summit brings together experts and industry leaders to explore the critical elements CIO’s must address to enable speed and agility, including people, use of data … Read more

Juniper Networks jumps after report saying HPE is looking to buy it

Juniper Networks jumps after report saying HPE is looking to buy it

Antonio Neri Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Juniper Networks shares soared more than 20% in extended trading on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is in “advanced talks” to acquire the company for around $13 billion. A deal could be announced as soon as this week, the Journal said, citing people … Read more

Here are 3 stocks other than Nvidia getting AI premium from investors

Here are 3 stocks other than Nvidia getting AI premium from investors

Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD, during an interview with Mad Money, broadcasting from CNBC’s San Francisco bureau on November 21, 2019. Jacob Jimenez | CNBC The big winner for investors this year in the generative AI boom was Nvidia. The company’s stock price rocketed 234% as demand soared for the chipmaker’s processors that … Read more