Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, delivers a speech to Congress at the Legislative Assembly building in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Photographer: Camilo Freedman/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images MIAMI — El Salvador is looking to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation
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Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (from left), U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Managing Director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva and Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland chatting on the first day of the Group of Seven Finance Ministers Meeting at Lancaster House in London on June 4, 2021. Stefan Rousseau | AFP | Getty
Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said he expects to close his SPAC deal to buy 10% of Universal Music Group for around $4 billion later this month. Ackman’s blank-check company Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH) is likely to finish the transaction by June 22,
The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, MA is pictured on March 21, 2019. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images DocuSign – Shares of the electronic signature company surged 17% after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly earnings. DocuSign earned 44 cents per share on
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Friday that climate change is not a main consideration for the central bank when formulating monetary policy. Speaking on a panel of his global colleagues, the head of the U.S. central bank said taking on issues related to global warming
A top investor expects volatility to dominate Wall Street for months. Amanda Agati, PNC Financial’s chief investment officer, lists stretched market valuations, Federal Reserve taper chatter and the end of stimulus checks as troubling forces in the market. “You have to pick and choose your exposures very, very carefully,” Agati said on CNBC’s “Trading Nation”
In this article AVGO DOCU CRWD AMC CrowdStrike IPO at the Nasdaq exchange June 12, 2019. Source: Nasdaq Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: AMC Entertainment — AMC Entertainment was on the move again after a volatile trading session. Shares fell 7% after hours after closing down nearly 18% in the regular
In this article 9988-HK A logo of Ant Group is pictured at the headquarters of the company, an affiliate of Alibaba, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 29, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters GUANGZHOU, China — China has given its approval to Ant Group to operate a consumer finance company, a key positive step in
Tesla China-made Model 3 vehicles are seen during a delivery event at its factory in Shanghai, China January 7, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — Tesla is recalling more than 700 units of its Model 3 electric car that were imported into China, the central government’s market regulator said Thursday. The announcement follows recalls
In this article XOM A view of the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 15, 2021. Kathleen Flynn | Reuters A third Exxon board seat has been claimed by Engine No. 1, the activist firm that’s been targeting the oil giant over its dependence on fossil fuels, the company said in a
Less than two months after Coinbase’s stock market debut, rival crypto exchange Kraken is bringing its mobile app to the U.S. as retail investors flock to digital currencies. Starting Wednesday, the new Kraken App will allow many users across the U.S. to securely buy and sell more than 50 crypto tokens from their mobile phones.
The flags of China, U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party are displayed in a flag stall at the Yiwu Wholesale Market in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China, May 10, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — China’s Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke Wednesday for the first time since President Joe
In this article ZM One of the ultimate stay-at-home plays is reporting quarterly results after the market close. Investors will get a read on Zoom Video as the economy stages a massive reopening and people restart their work commutes. Two traders expect the information tech company to stay relevant. However, that doesn’t mean it’s time
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: AMC Entertainment (AMC) – AMC is selling 8.5 million shares to investment firm Mudrick Capital for $230.5 million, following the recent surge in the movie theater operator’s stock price. AMC plans to use the proceeds to pursue the acquisition of theater assets and
In this article ETH= BTC.BS=-USS TIGR FUTU In this photo illustration a Bitcoin logo seen displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages in the background. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images BEIJING — Two of China’s rivals to stock trading app Robinhood are looking to cryptocurrencies as a way to
A worker is seen in the workshop of a factory manufacturing medical devices in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China. Reuters BEIJING — Chinese businesses are letting go of more workers than they are hiring, even though the economy is seeing some recovery from the pandemic, official data showed Monday. That’s based on a survey from the
Ruins of the Greenwood District after the massacre of African Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 1921. American National Red Cross photograph collection. GHI | Universal Images Group | Getty Images A century ago this week, the wealthiest U.S. Black community was burned to the ground. At the turn of the 20th century, the Greenwood
In this article HPQ DELL ULTA CRM Signage on a Saleforce office building in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Salesforce — Salesforce shares jumped 5% in extended trading after the cloud-based software company posted
In this article GS BAC JPM U.S. banks are likely to report “record level” earnings in 2021 as the American economy recovers and financial markets remain buoyant, according to the Institute of International Finance, an industry association. Tim Adams, chief executive of the IIF, said Friday that the improving economy will help bank lending and
Workers load packages into delivery carts at a JD.com distribution center in Beijing on July 16, 2020. GREG BAKER | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING — In less than a year, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has raised more than $10 billion through public offerings in Hong Kong and New York. The listings involved JD’s subsidiaries