Stock market bubble? Analysts explain why they’re not worried

Stock market bubble? Analysts explain why they’re not worried

Traders work on the floor during morning trading at the New York Stock Exchange on March 6, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Despite the heavy concentration of the U.S. market rally in expensive, AI-focused tech stocks, analysts say Wall Street is not yet in bubble territory. The S&P 500 has climbed for 16 of … Read more

Europe is having its worst earnings season since the onset of Covid

Europe is having its worst earnings season since the onset of Covid

Arc of Triomphe Paris, Champs-Elysees France at night vichie81 / iStock / Getty Images Plus LONDON — Around a half of European companies missed earnings expectations in the latest reporting season despite already low expectations, analysts told CNBC, who predicted that the region will continue to struggle amid high interest rates. As of Feb. 29 … Read more

Investors get more reasons to like Apple after scrapping EV plans, AI update

Investors get more reasons to like Apple after scrapping EV plans, AI update

Apple offered investors more reasons to like its stock after the company reportedly canceled its decadelong electric, self-driving car project and CEO Tim Cook talked up the iPhone maker’s artificial intelligence vision. The tech giant announced the end to its autonomous EV pursuits internally Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported , citing people with knowledge of the … Read more

UBS beats earnings expectations, announces up to $1 billion share buyback

UBS beats earnings expectations, announces up to  billion share buyback

Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images Swiss banking giant UBS on Tuesday narrowly beat fourth-quarter earnings expectations and announced that it would recommence share buybacks worth up to $1 billion in the second half of the year. The group posted a net loss attributable to shareholders of $279 million for the quarter, its second … Read more

Gold prices to hit $2,200 and outperformance awaits silver, says UBS

Gold prices to hit ,200 and outperformance awaits silver, says UBS

Gold and silver bars of various sizes lie in a safe on a table at the precious metals dealer Pro Aurum in Munich. Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Gold and silver are expected to climb further in 2024 on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates, UBS forecasts. … Read more

UBS CEO says Swiss public ‘indoctrinated’ to worry about bank’s balance sheet

UBS CEO says Swiss public ‘indoctrinated’ to worry about bank’s balance sheet

Sergio Ermotti, chief executive officer of UBS Group Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti on Wednesday said people with concerns about the size of the bank’s balance sheet are getting “indoctrinated” by academics and should “do their homework.” UBS completed its takeover of Credit Suisse in June 2023 after an … Read more

Cevian’s track record with banks could help the activist build value at UBS

Cevian’s track record with banks could help the activist build value at UBS

UBS expects to complete its takeover of Credit Suisse “as early as June 12”, which will create a giant Swiss bank with a balance sheet of $1.6 trillion. Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images Company: UBS Group AG (UBS) Business: UBS Group AG is a Switzerland-based holding company. It conducts its operations through UBS … Read more

Markets rebound to welcome Santa Claus rally

Markets rebound to welcome Santa Claus rally

A Christmas tree stands in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on December 1, 2023. Angela Weiss | Afp | 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 … Read more

Markets rebound in time for the Santa Claus rally

Markets rebound in time for the Santa Claus rally

Wall Street and Broad Street signs are seen as The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and a Christmas tree are illuminated in New York City, United States on December 1, 2021. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings … Read more

Swiss regulator calls for more powers after Credit Suisse collapse

Swiss regulator calls for more powers after Credit Suisse collapse

Axel Lehmann, chairman of Credit Suisse Group AG, Colm Kelleher, chairman of UBS Group AG, Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland’s finance minister, Alain Berset, Switzerland’s president, Thomas Jordan, president of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Marlene Amstad, chairperson of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), left to right, during a news conference in Bern, Switzerland, on … Read more