SoftBank leads $104 million investment in travel startup TravelPerk

SoftBank leads 4 million investment in travel startup TravelPerk

TravelPerk CEO and co-founder Avi Meir. TravelPerk Barcelona-based startup TravelPerk, which helps automate corporate travel and expenses, has raised $104 million in fresh funding from Japanese tech investing giant SoftBank and a flood of other names, to invest in artificial intelligence development and new products. The company said Tuesday that it raised the cash in … Read more

Founders of Wise and Skype raise $436 million to back Europe tech

Founders of Wise and Skype raise 6 million to back Europe tech

The partners of European venture capital firm Plural, from left to right: Ian Hogarth, Taavet Hinrikus, Carina Namih, Sten Tamkivi and Khaled Helioui. Plural The founders of Wise, Skype and Songkick have raised 400 million euros ($436.4 million) for a new fund to back technology startups in Europe. It seeks to compete with established funds … Read more

World’s largest hedge funds record bumper year of profits

World’s largest hedge funds record bumper year of profits

Signage for Citadel Investment Group LLC hangs outside their office in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s top hedge funds raked in record profits last year amid a resurgence in stock markets, new analysis showed. The 20 leading fund managers made $67 billion in investor profits in 2023, up from the $65 … Read more

Treasury yields fractionally higher ahead of key data releases

Treasury yields fractionally higher ahead of key data releases

U.S. Treasury yields nudged slightly higher on Tuesday morning, as market participants await the release of key economic data points later in the week. Near 2:25 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was around 1.7 basis points higher at 4.1109% while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was up just … Read more

Nvidia and its stock may go through an Apple-like transformation, Melius Research says

Nvidia and its stock may go through an Apple-like transformation, Melius Research says

Nvidia ‘s wise push into software and services is getting more attention on Wall Street, with one analyst drawing a parallel between Jim Cramer’s two “own it, don’t trade it” names. The emergence of chip powerhouse Nvidia as a major AI winner over the past year has been fueled by surging hardware sales — specifically, … Read more

CNBC Daily Open: Markets upbeat mood

CNBC Daily Open: Markets upbeat mood

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 30, 2023 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | 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 matter where they … Read more

China strategist warns of deflation and rock-bottom consumer confidence

China strategist warns of deflation and rock-bottom consumer confidence

BEIJNG, CHINA – NOVEMBER 13: Illuminated skyscrapers stand at the central business district at sunset on November 13, 2023 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Gao Zehong/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Deflation may soon start biting into Chinese growth, as Beijing looks at another three to six months of … Read more

Cramer says Eli Lilly could join the ranks of the ‘Magnificent Seven’

Cramer says Eli Lilly could join the ranks of the ‘Magnificent Seven’

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday suggested Tesla could lose its spot in the “Magnificent Seven” megacap stocks list. He said he’s waiting to see results from the electric vehicle giant’s upcoming earnings report, but said Tesla may have hit a “growth pause,” compared to its Big Tech peers that are still on the rise. If … Read more

CrowdStrike CEO explains why Russian hackers are hard to beat

CrowdStrike CEO explains why Russian hackers are hard to beat

In a Monday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz discussed Microsoft‘s high-profile security breach by a Russian intelligence group, saying these adversaries have a determined “low and slow” approach to hacking that’s especially tough to beat. Microsoft announced on Friday that the group, known as Nobelium, carried out the attack and was … Read more

United Airlines (UAL) Q4 2023 earnings

United Airlines (UAL) Q4 2023 earnings

A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft lands at San Francisco International Airport on March 13, 2019 in Burlingame, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images United Airlines on Monday forecast a first-quarter loss due to the FAA grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 planes this month after a part blew out during an Alaska … Read more