A woman walks past Wells Fargo bank in New York City, U.S., March 17, 2020. Jeenah Moon | Reuters Wells Fargo on Friday reported first-quarter earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street expectations, despite a decline in net interest income. Here’s how the company performed compared with what Wall Street was anticipating, based on a … Read more
An employee works on the assembly line of intelligent machinery at a workshop on March 31, 2024 in Qingzhou, Weifang City, Shandong Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s latest policy to boost demand will soon have a greater effect on growth, a top official at the economic … Read more
Investors looking to weather a volatile market may want to opt for physical gold over gold stocks. That’s according to George Milling-Stanley, one of the world’s experts in gold and the chief gold strategist at State Street Global Advisors. “One of the reasons I own gold bar(s) is that I believe it offers me some … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday said Wall Street should be less jaded, saying that to see gains, it is necessary to trust certain deserving market-moving figures. He specifically said he has faith in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Nvidia‘s Jensen Huang and Apple CEO Tim Cook, even as some on Wall Street have negative sentiments … Read more
The Federal Reserve should be able to start cutting interest rates by the end of 2024, according to Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. “We remain on our projection that we would see, by the end of the year, the Fed being in a position to take some action in a direction … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer questioned whether the hotter-than-expected consumer price index data accurately represents the state of inflation, saying Wall Street’s wave of selling on Wednesday could have been a mistake. “Trillions of dollars were indeed lost today under the assumption that inflation’s way hotter than we thought, and after examining the numbers underneath, considering the … Read more
Illuminated skyscrapers stand at the central business district at sunset on November 13, 2023 in Beijing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s commercial property sector is seeing pockets of demand amid an overall real estate slump. The capital city of Beijing is seeing rents for prime retail locations rise … Read more
This episode was first played on our global news podcast, Today in Focus. Reddit is one of the last mainstream social media platforms that still resembles something of how the internet used to be. A place where humour abounds, niche interests are obsessed over, gossip is traded and viral videos are spread. Think of it … Read more
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a “Fed Listens” event in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2019. Eric Baradat | AFP | Getty Images A hotter-than-expected consumer price index reading rattled markets Wednesday, but markets are buzzing about an even more specific prices gauge contained within the data — the so-called supercore inflation reading. … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed Tuesday’s market action, saying stocks that saw losses — like Nvidia and Eli Lilly — remain winners but had simply run too much. “The stocks that pulled back today have everything going for them, except that they’ve already run so much that they’ve become vulnerable,” he said. He underscored his belief … Read more
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