Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during morning trading in New York on August 23, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | 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, … Read more
On Aug. 5, we awoke to a market upside-down. Japanese stocks, so strong this year, had crashed, literally crashed, down 12%, a hideous decline, worst since 1987. Oddly, there was nothing wrong. The yen had strengthened, forcing investors who had borrowed yen to buy our stocks and others around the world to put up more … Read more
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during morning trading in New York on August 23, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | 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, … Read more
Wall Street takes back-to-back weekly gains and an overbought market into an important week featuring Nvidia earnings and the latest reading on the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday gave the speech from Jackson Hole that investors wanted to hear. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq bounced back from … Read more
A sign is posted in front of Intel headquarters on August 01, 2024 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Intel is working with advisors including Morgan Stanley to help defend itself against activist investors, according to people familiar with the matter, as CEO Pat Gelsinger attempts to turn … Read more
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. Green light : Stocks rallied Friday in reaction to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at the central bank’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. While stocks … Read more
Inside a sprawling lab at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, hundreds of server racks hum across several aisles, performing tasks far less ubiquitous than running the world’s dominant search engine or executing workloads for Google Cloud’s millions of customers. Instead, they’re running tests on Google’s own microchips, called Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. Originally … Read more
Epic’s Deep Space auditorium during UGM 2024. Courtesy: Epic Systems In an underground auditorium packed with thousands of health-care executives this week, Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner stepped on stage to deliver a keynote dressed like a swan, feathers and all. Even by the tech industry’s more casual standards (take Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s trademark … Read more
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 16, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | 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 are. Like what you … Read more
On the 20th anniversary of Google‘s market debut, CNBC’s Jim Cramer looked back on the stock’s impressive climb and advised investors to stick with good companies for the long term, even if it means shouldering some short term losses. He first addressed Monday’s Wall Street action, noting the market’s eight-day winning streak. These kinds of … Read more
