China’s central bank encourages local businesses to accept foreign payment cards

A coffee shop at Beijing Capital Airport shows customers can use Visa, Mastercard, the digital Chinese yuan and other payment methods. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — China is encouraging banks and local businesses to accept foreign bank cards and is considering other steps to make mobile pay for international visitors even easier, said Zhang … Read more

Moody’s downgrades bank’s credit rating to junk; shares tumble

A sign is pictured above a branch of the New York Community Bank in Yonkers, New York, U.S., January 31, 2024.  Mike Segar | Reuters New York Community Bank’s shares continued their downward spiral Wednesday after Moody’s Investors Service cut the firm’s credit rating two notches to junk status. NYCB shares fell about 3%, trimming … Read more

Clocktower’s chief strategist says Chinese stocks will likely rally 10%

An investor watches a board showing stock information at a brokerage office in Beijing, China. Jason Lee | AP BEIJING — Chinese stocks will likely climb by at least 10% in coming days as authorities signal concerted support efforts, said Marko Papic, partner and chief strategist at Clocktower Group. Papic pointed in particular to Bloomberg’s … Read more

DBS cuts executive pay on banking outages; posts record earnings in 2023

DBS Group Holdings suffered an outage in its digital services on March 29, 2023. Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — DBS Group reported record earnings for the full year in 2023, but cut compensation for its senior management to “hold them accountable” for a number of digital disruptions that year. Chief Executive Piyush Gupta received … Read more

After Chipotle’s earnings beat, CEO says chain can double locations

Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol told CNBC’s Jim Cramer that the company plans to double its current number of locations. “We really do believe we can double the restaurant count to 7,000,” Niccol said. “We view it as a conservative number, and we view it as something that’s very feasible in the long term.” Tuesday after … Read more

Paytm shares pop after Jio Financial denies deal talks for wallet business

A restaurant advertises the use of the Paytm digital payment system in Mumbai, India, on Saturday, July 17, 2021. Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images India’s digital payments app Paytm rose as much as 8% on Tuesday, rebounding from a heavy selloff that wiped off about $2.5 billion in market value in the last … Read more

Jim Cramer says there’s money to be made before the Fed cuts rates

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday unpacked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments on inflation, saying that even though it’s unclear when rates will come down, there is money to be made in the interim. He encouraged investors to buy stocks and not just keep money in lower-risk investments. “I’m beginning to believe that the biggest … Read more

Hewlett Packard Enterprise tops the 2024 JUST 100 list

Antonio Neri, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, at the NYSE, Oct. 19, 2023 Source: NYSE Technology stocks have taken back the No. 1 spot in the JUST 100, an annual ranking of large public companies on issues of key importance to the American public, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise topping last year’s No. 1 Bank of America. … Read more

Mitsui Fudosan hits record high as Elliott reportedly demands share buyback

Shares of Mitsui Fudosan surged to an all-time high on Monday after a report said U.S. activist investment firm Elliott Management had demanded the company launch a massive stock buyback program. Japan’s largest property developer jumped as much as 11.8% in early afternoon trading to hit a record 4,100 yen. The Financial Times reported that Elliott Management had … Read more

RealPage antitrust lawsuits allege collusion among corporate landlords

A group of renters in the U.S. say their landlords are using software to deliver inflated rent hikes. “We’ve been told as tenants by employees of Equity that the software takes empathy out of the equation. So they can charge whatever the software tells them to charge,” said Kevin Weller, a tenant at Portside Towers … Read more