Tourists line a street in Venice, Italy, on Saturday, March 16, 2024. Venice collected €37 million in overnight tourist taxes in 2023, with hotels charging guests anywhere between €1 and €5. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy — When boat drivers start complaining about the tourists overrunning this famous lakeside … Read more
VanEck CEO Jan van Eck sees a major sentiment shift underway in the cryptocurrency market linked to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of a rule change allowing for Ethereum exchange-traded funds. “This is really one of the most amazing things that I’ve seen in my career with respect to securities regulation,” van Eck … Read more
Despite the heightened scrutiny around regional banks, little-known East West Bancorp has been able to pull ahead thanks to a key customer base: Asian Americans. East West Bancorp shares have eked out a small gain in 2024, up 2%. That’s a paltry advance when compared with the S&P 500, which is up 10%, but impressive … Read more
Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management CEO, speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York City on Sept. 28, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is selling a 10% stake in Pershing Square, aiming to eventually take his investment firm public. Ackman’s firm is raising $1.05 billion in a funding round, … Read more
A trader signals an offer in the Standard & Poors 500 stock index futures pit at the CME Group December 14, 2010 in Chicago City. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images The data feeds for key market averages had an issue on Thursday that caused the calculations for the S&P 500 and … Read more
Jim Chanos Scott Mlyn | CNBC Famed short seller Jim Chanos called a lawsuit accusing him of embezzling funds for personal use, “false, baseless and defamatory.” Chanos gave the statement to CNBC’s Scott Wapner in response to allegations made by a former investor in Chanos & Co. Conlon Holdings, a Chicago-based firm run by Sean Conlon, … Read more
Solar panels and wind turbines in the Netherlands. Daniel Bosma | Moment | Getty Images Clean energy stocks may be underperforming in the public market. But there is still a great appetite for companies focused on decarbonization in private markets, with Clean Energy Ventures’ new fund as the latest example. The climate tech firm said … Read more
The US stock market is finally as fast as it was about a hundred years ago. That was the last time share trades in New York settled in a single day, as they will from Tuesday under new Securities and Exchange Commission rules. The change, halving the time it takes to complete every transaction, also … Read more
Michael Arougheti, Ares Management Corporation Co-Founder, CEO & President Adam Jeffery | CNBC The explosion of private credit has been met with a whole host of concerns, but among the louder ones more recently is that the industry has not experienced a downturn at scale. And therefore, what does that mean for borrowers when there’s … Read more
Wells Fargo is breaking out of its lending roots. The bank has quietly gone on a hiring spree to grab a bigger slice of the profitable investment banking business long dominated by its Wall Street rivals. Since the start of 2023, a CNBC analysis found that Wells Fargo made at least 17 senior-level hires in … Read more
