Boaz Weinstein says BlackRock funds ‘crushing shareholder rights’

Boaz Weinstein says BlackRock funds ‘crushing shareholder rights’

Boaz Weinstein, founder and chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management, during the Bloomberg Invest event in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 7, 2023.  Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boaz Weinstein, the hedge fund investor on the winning side of JPMorgan Chase’s $6.2 billion, “London Whale” trading loss in 2011, is now … Read more

Dow briefly tops 40,000, meme stocks down but not out

Dow briefly tops 40,000, meme stocks down but not out

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. What you need to know today Dow breaks through … Read more

Monzo boosts funding to $610 million to crack U.S., launch UK pensions

Monzo boosts funding to 0 million to crack U.S., launch UK pensions

British neobank Monzo said Wednesday that it’s raised another $190 million, lifting the total it’s raised so far this year to $610 million. The company told CNBC it raised the cash from new investors including Hedosophia, a backer of top European fintechs including N26 and Qonto. CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, also participated in the … Read more

Private equity firms circle Peloton for potential buyout

Private equity firms circle Peloton for potential buyout

A Peloton Bike inside a showroom in New York, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Peloton Interactive Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on November 2. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images A number of private equity firms have been considering a buyout of Peloton as the connected fitness company looks to refinance … Read more

Berkshire Hathaway’s big mystery stock wager could be revealed soon

Berkshire Hathaway’s big mystery stock wager could be revealed soon

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

Walmart to shutter health centers, virtual care service

Walmart to shutter health centers, virtual care service

Walmart on Tuesday said it will close all of its health-care clinics across the country, a stunning reversal of its plans to bring its low-priced reputation to the dentist and doctor’s office along with the grocery aisle.  The big-box retailer said it would also shutter its telehealth provider, which it acquired for an undisclosed amount … Read more

JPM calls for reality check on energy transition are sensible

JPM calls for reality check on energy transition are sensible

JPMorgan’s calls for a “reality check” on the world’s energy transition goals and pathway is a “sensible,” the UAE’s energy minister told CNBC. “We need always, whenever we put up predictions, especially long term ones, to have a reality check,” Suhail Al Mazrouei told CNBC’s Dan Murphy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of … Read more

Amazon aggregator Thrasio loses CEO, other execs in bankruptcy process

Amazon aggregator Thrasio loses CEO, other execs in bankruptcy process

Thrasio, an early leader in the big business of Amazon aggregators, had a booth at the popular Prosper Show for Amazon sellers in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 14, 2021. Katie Schoolov Thrasio, the top aggregator of Amazon third-party sellers, is losing its CEO and five other senior executives, months after the former highflier filed … Read more

JPMorgan in U.S-Russia sanctions war after overseas court orders $440M seized from bank

JPMorgan in U.S-Russia sanctions war after overseas court orders 0M seized from bank

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A Russian court sided with state-run lender VTB Bank in its efforts to recoup … Read more

Bitcoin miners get into AI to survive halving

Bitcoin miners get into AI to survive halving

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Adam Sullivan left investment banking to mine bitcoin at an awkward time. It was May 2023, bitcoin was trading at around $21,000, U.S. regulators were in the thick of cracking down on the sector writ large, and Core Scientific, the company he had agreed to take over, was battling angry lenders in … Read more