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Chinese tourists with facial masks stand in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 3, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images U.S. pressure on Chinese stocks looks set to accelerate the growth of capital markets in Hong Kong and mainland China, as investors

Standard Chartered headquarters and a HSBC building are pictured on March 16, 2020 in Hong Kong. Zhang Wei | China News Service via Getty Images A major shareholder in both HSBC and Standard Chartered has hit out at the banks over their support for China’s controversial new national security law in Hong Kong. In a

A new bill that targets Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges could not only “backfire” on American investors, but also hurt Wall Street — which will lobby against the legislation, a Harvard professor told CNBC on Tuesday. Amid a tide of anti-China sentiment stateside, the U.S. Senate last month passed a bill that could essentially ban

President Donald Trump conducts a bill signing ceremony with members of his economic team in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 05, 2020. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A conspiracy theory has emerged relative to the unemployment rate, suggesting that the Trump administration rigged official statistics to give the illusion of a

Customers inspect a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NC Dodge Grand Caravan minivan at a Carvana Co. location in Westminster, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 28, 2020. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images As the coronavirus was spreading from China to Europe and eventually to the U.S., Americans borrowed a record amount of money to

It appears a major shift is underway in the bond market. BofA Global Research’s Mark Cabana sees an improving jobs market adding fuel to the Treasury yield rally and providing some relief to the Federal Reserve ahead of Tuesday’s policy meeting. “We were really thinking that the economy would still really struggle to rebound in

Shoppers enter a Michaels store in Miami, Florida. Scott McIntyre | Bloomberg | Getty Images Arts and crafts retailer Michaels Stores is having its best day ever.  The reason behind this monster move was a simple bullish call from JPMorgan. Shares of Michaels are up than 50% on Monday, its biggest one-day jump on record. This

Stanley Druckenmiller Adam Jeffery | CNBC Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller said tech giants Amazon and Microsoft are still among his biggest holdings, but noted he is quite bearish on growth stocks as a group.  “I have still something like Amazon and Microsoft in my largest holdings, but I have the least growth weighting in my

Dada Founder and CEO, Philip Kuai, at the company’s Nasdaq IPO celebration held in Shanghai on June 5, 2020. Courtesy of Dada SHANGHAI – Chinese grocery delivery company Dada is confident it can stand up to U.S. scrutiny as a newly listed company in New York. The Walmart-invested company went public under the ticker DADA on

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is pictures on May 26, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Check back here for updates: 8:10 am: Airlines continue to soar on reopening trade Shares of the major U.S. airlines are jumping in premarket trading

The coronavirus pandemic altered society in immeasurable ways, including, of course, investing. Stocks that benefited from people staying home, such as Netflix and Zoom Video, outperformed expectations in the past few months, while retailers and airline companies, among others, saw their stocks fall off a cliff. And now some of those worst-performing stocks of March

Wall Street and New York Stock Exchange in New York. Alexander Spatari The stock market has defied gravity in recent weeks, rebounding nearly as quickly as it sold off amid the coronavirus pandemic. The threat of another steep decline is omnipresent. But stock investors shouldn’t be concerned, experts say. In fact, panicking and selling out

A “Now Hiring” sign advertising jobs at Lowe’s is seen as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Homestead, Florida, U.S., April 17, 2020. Marco Bello | Reuters Quite unexpectedly and rather suddenly, investors have been given a reset, a reprieve, a chance at a fresh start. What should they do with it?

Members of the Long Beach, New York CSEA civil service union hold a drive-by protest in front of Long Beach City Hall to protest further union layoffs on May 26, 2020. (Photo by Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images) The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 13.3% in May, defying expectations of a much bleaker

Managers at the massive Bell facilities in North Texas had a problem. As 5,000 employees building helicopters needed to stay on the job, the company — a division of Textron — had to take steps to keep workers safe. One step included plans to take employee temperatures as they came to work. The company set

Spencer Platt | Getty Images The unemployment rate in the U.S. improved last month as millions of people returned to the workforce. But the official 13.3% unemployment rate, while still high relative to any point since the Great Depression in the early 20th century, likely understates the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. The

Source: Chime An interesting phenomena is occurring during the sharpest downturn in the history of our country: Americans have money in their pockets.  Economic and banking data is revealing that Americans are earning and saving money during the coronavirus crisis, thanks to unprecedented stimulus from the federal government. The rescue funds could be responsible for

Interior Design area of the Restoration Hardware store in the Meatpacking District of New York.  Source: RH Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. Broadcom — Shares of the semiconductor company climbed 1% in extended trading after Broadcom released its second-quarter financial results. The company posted earnings of $5.14 per share excluding some

U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia. Oliver Contreras/SIPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images Savers using 401(k) plans may soon be able to invest their retirement money in private equity, long considered strictly the province of the well-to-do. The U.S. Labor Department issued guidance Wednesday stipulating that business owners with 401(k) plans can more safely offer certain funds

Shoppers walk out with full carts from a Costco store in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2020. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. Cloudera – The software company’s stock fell 11% in extended trading after Cloudera provided its first-quarter earnings. The company reported first-quarter earnings