A global stock rout is deepening with investors fleeing to safe havens

A global stock rout is deepening with investors fleeing to safe havens

A man looks at an electronic boarddisplaying stock prices of the Nikkei 225 listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on April 30, 2024.  Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Investors on Monday turned to safe-haven assets as a global stock sell-off deepened, following weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data at the end of last … Read more

Markets fall with Japan stocks in bear territory; Berkshire’s cash hoard at record high

Markets fall with Japan stocks in bear territory; Berkshire’s cash hoard at record high

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on August 02, 2024 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no … Read more

Nasdaq in correction territory; Berkshire’s cash holdings reach record high

Nasdaq in correction territory; Berkshire’s cash holdings reach record high

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on August 02, 2024 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no … Read more

Mortgage rates plunge to the lowest level in over a year

Mortgage rates plunge to the lowest level in over a year

A for sale sign in front of a home in Arlington, Virginia, on August 22, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 22 basis points to 6.4% Friday, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is the lowest rate since April 2023. The 15-year fixed … Read more

China holds back on more stimulus, citing necessary ‘pain’

China holds back on more stimulus, citing necessary ‘pain’

A general view shows the skyline over the Central Business District in Beijing on February 28, 2023. Jade Gao | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — China is not planning additional stimulus for the second half of the year, according to officials from the economic planning agency and finance ministry. The world’s second-largest economy grew … Read more

Investors weigh interest rate outlook

Investors weigh interest rate outlook

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 24, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Treasury yields fell Thursday as investors digested comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who suggested a September rate cut was on the table, along with a jump in U.S. jobless claims. The benchmark 10-year … Read more

Is India close to a free trade agreement with the U.K.?

Is India close to a free trade agreement with the U.K.?

Customers browse the S1 Pro electric scooter of Ola Electric Mobility Pvt. at the launch event of Ola Experience Center in Bengaluru, India, on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Ola opened three showrooms called Ola Experience Centres in Bengaluru on Sunday. Photographer: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is … Read more

What that means for you

What that means for you

Customer shopping for school supplies with employee restocking shelves, Target store, Queens, New York. Lindsey Nicholson | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Now, as the central bank sets the stage to lower interest rates for the first time in years when it meets again in September, consumers may see their borrowing costs … Read more

Student loan borrowers who owe over $200,000 become more common

Student loan borrowers who owe over 0,000 become more common

Damircudic | E+ | Getty Images The number of federal student loan borrowers with six-figure debts is on the rise. In the second quarter of 2024, 2.4 million borrowers carried a federal student loan balance between $100,000 and $200,000, up from 1.8 million people who owed that much during the same period in 2017, according … Read more

Where are China’s ultra-rich parking their wealth amid a slowing economy?

Where are China’s ultra-rich parking their wealth amid a slowing economy?

Asian businessman drinking in a luxury car. Weiquan Lin | Moment | Getty Images China’s ultra-wealthy population — people with a net worth of at least $30 million — is expected to increase by almost 50% in a few years, according to projections in a recent Knight Frank wealth report. At a time when China’s … Read more