Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters It’s no coincidence that investors are getting more positive on the stock market as the yield curve has been steepening. Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s quantitative team has new research that shows a direct relation between the move in stock
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An electric scooter from Swedish tech start-up Voi Technology. Voi Technology Swedish electric scooter sharing start-up Voi Technology has raised $85 million from investors, a move the firm hopes will help it reach profitability in the next few years. The new round was led by Stockholm-based investment group Vostok New Ventures, Voi said Monday. Existing
A Goldman Sachs sign is seen on at the company’s post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The New York Department of Financial Services is launching an investigation into Goldman Sachs’ credit card practices after a tech entrepreneur accused the bank’s Apple Credit Card algorithm of discriminating against
US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard attends a “Fed Listens” event at the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2019. Eric Baradat | AFP | Getty Images Along with all of the other things it must consider, the Federal Reserve needs to take into account climate change when formulating monetary policy, Fed
(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) “You are what your record says you are,” said former football coach Bill Parcells, offering a no-excuses maxim of accountability tied to tangible results. So, what does the stock market’s recent rally
Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon. Joe Klamar | AFP | Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all hit all time record-highs this week and if investors are looking at what
Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses cryptocurrency during the TechCrunch Disrupt forum in San Francisco, October 2, 2019. Kate Munsch | Reuters Bitcoin’s buzz may have faded but Andreessen Horowitz is still betting on cryptocurrency and its underlying technology. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm is launching a school to coach entrepreneurs on
President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Dallas, October 17, 2019. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Progress in trade talks and a steady, but accomodative Fed policy have eased the way for the stock market’s rally to new highs, and both will be in the forefront when President Donald Trump and Jerome Powell speak at
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Value stocks, those with stable fundamentals and subpar valuations, haven’t been this cheap since the financial crisis, according to Bank of America. Cheap equities enjoyed a resurgence in September from a decade of underperformance as investors bet on economically sensitive,
A child receives a vaccination shot at a hospital in Huaibei in China’s eastern Anhui province on July 26, 2018. – | AFP | Getty Images SHANGHAI – Some of the world’s largest medical and health care companies are stepping up their bets on the Chinese market, regardless of slowing economic growth and trade tensions.
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on October 2, 2019. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images This week, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) held the fifth in a series of exercises meant to simulate a catastrophic cybersecurity event in the banking sector, known as “Quantum Dawn.” The exercise offers
Wells Fargo Securities’ Christopher Harvey is looking for a signal that it’s time to take risk off the table, and he expects it’ll come sooner rather than later. The firm’s head of equity strategy is worried market sentiment is becoming too optimistic as stocks trade near all-time highs. “We kinda hate this market,” Harvey told
Netflix has built itself into a $125 billion company by accumulating global subscribers — a number that hit 164 million when the company announced third-quarter results last month. But CEO Reed Hastings said Wednesday that subscriber counts aren’t the right metric to track who’s winning the streaming wars — what’s really important is how viewers
Gotham | GC Images | Getty Images NEW YORK — If it weren’t for the industrious work ethic of the Kardashians, rapper Kanye West may have been content to squander his days as “the greatest artist in human existence.” West — donning a cobalt blue hoodie among a sea of Wall Street suits — said
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Capri Holdings – The Michael Kors parent earned an adjusted $1.16 per share, falling 8 cents a share short of estimates. Revenue was essentially in line with expectations. The company pointed to the impact of higher expenses and the protests in Hong Kong. CVS Health –
A visitor holds illuminated controllers while wearing a prototype of the Sony Project Morpheus virtual reality gaming headset at the IFA tech show in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 3. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images LISBON, Portugal — Europe’s technology industry is thriving and showing signs that it can compete with the U.S., the
Jamie Dimon is wading into the ongoing feud between Sen. Elizabeth Warren and American billionaires including money manager Leon Cooperman. Dimon, himself a billionaire thanks to his decades running some of the biggest U.S. lenders, was asked by CNBC’s Wilfred Frost if presidential hopeful Warren was anti-business. “You really have to ask her what she
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: – The company formerly known as Coach for its latest quarter, 3 cents a share above estimates. Revenue was slightly below forecasts, but comparable-store sales were stronger than analysts had been forecast. – The drugmaker reported quarterly profit of $6.67 per share, 31 cents a share
China’s President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the opening of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2018 in Boao, south China’s Hainan province on April 10, 2018. AFP | Getty Images SHANGHAI — Chinese President Xi Jinping was expected to speak Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the second China International Import
The Under Armour logo is displayed at T & B Sports in San Rafael, California. Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday: Under Armour — Under Armour shares cratered more than 15% after the apparel maker disclosed a federal probe into its accounting practices. The investigation has been ongoing since July 2017.