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Soybeans are harvested from a field on Hodgen Farm in Roachdale, Indiana, November 8, 2019. Bryan Woolston | Reuters China is buying more U.S. soybeans, as both countries try to reach an initial agreement on trade. Between September and November this year, Chinese imports of American soybeans increased 13 times from the same period last

A customer uses a Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, automatic teller machine (ATM) in Hanoi, Vietnam. Justin Mott | Bloomberg | Getty Images Vietnam’s banking sector is an attractive investment opportunity because it is generating a lot of capital and growing fast, according to a senior banker at J.P. Morgan.

The “Options Action” traders share three options trading strategies to kick off the week. Michael Khouw looked into call buying in the Technology ETF.  Dan Nathan illustrated call buying in Starbucks. Khouw and Guy Adami broke down a call calendar in Lululemon.  Disclaimer Trader disclosure: Guy Adami is long CELG, EXAS, GDX, INTC. Guy Adami’s wife,

If jobs market strength persists, Wells Fargo Securities Michael Schumacher isn’t ruling out a 2020 interest rate hike — especially if the Federal Reserve decides to add one more insurance cut early next year. His call comes less than a week before the year’s final Fed meeting on rates. “The Fed is not in a

T-Mobile CEO John Legere (L) and Sprint Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure (R) arrive to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights hearing on the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2018. Mandel Ngan

(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 idea that we are late in the economic and financial-market cycle is one that even most Wall Street bulls won’t dispute. After all, when the economic expansion surpasses a decade to

U.S. President Donald Trump, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence looking on, delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. Doug Mills | Getty Images Citi is boosting its stock forecast for

(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) Wall Street veteran Karen Firestone knows all too well that stock picking isn’t as easy as it used to be, but her decades of experience is serving her well. Firestone runs a

November’s surprisingly strong jobs report makes it less likely the Fed will move to cut interest rates, and it could even sound more hawkish when it meets next week. A so-called ‘hawkish’ Fed is one that is more likely to move to tighten policy than make it looser by cutting interest rates or taking other

China’s President Xi Jinping (L) and US President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. AFP Contributor | AFP | Getty Images The Trump administration’s Dec. 15 deadline for new tariffs on China looms large, and while most strategists expect them to be

A WeWork office in San Francisco Kate Munsch | Reuters WeWork’s dramatic fall has led to SoftBank CEO Masa Son’s questioning his own judgement, but one analyst still believes the bank will come out on top eventually with the massive investment in the reeling space-sharing company. “Despite the huge embarrassment WeWork has been for SoftBank this

Pedestrians pass in front of an Ulta Beauty store in New York. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Ulta spiked more than 9% during extended trading after the beauty retailer posted mixed third-quarter earnings and matched same store-sales estimates. The company earned $2.25

Job growth should appear strong in November as striking GM workers returned to the workforce. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected 187,000 jobs were added in November, and Refinitiv’s consensus forecast was 180,000. Wages are expected to rise by 0.3% in the month, and unemployment is expected to remain at 3.6%. The government’s monthly employment

Cargo ships sit docked at the Port of Savannah in Georgia Ty Wright | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. trade deficit fell in October to its lowest level in more than a year as exports and imports both slid for the month, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The deficit tumbled 7.6% to $47.2 billion

Robinhood grew its user based tenfold in about three years by bringing in younger generations to the finance world, co-CEO of the mobile stock trading app, Vladimir Tenev, told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday. The start-up earlier that day announced that it has registered more than 10 million accounts to its platform, up from 1 million

Signage of Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering (IPO) is seen during a news conference by the state oil company at the Plaza Conference Center in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia November 3, 2019. Hamad Mohammed | Reuters Here are the most important things to know about Thursday before you hit the door. 1. Labor market softening? Job

Investor Peter Boockvar expects President Donald Trump won’t spoil Wall Street’s Christmas by launching tariffs. But it may only be a temporary reprieve. “I do not believe that they will follow through with the December tariffs,” Bleakley Advisory Group’s chief investment officer told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday. “If we do not have a [China

Larry Page, co-founder and chief executive officer at Google Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Google’s parent-company Alphabet edged nearly 1% higher after the company announced that Larry Page will step down as CEO and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters President Trump’s comment that he had no deadline on a China deal has predictably thrown markets into a tizzy, as the self-imposed deadline of Dec. 15 for additional tariffs is now less than two weeks away. The market is now

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Lands’ End (LE) – The apparel retailer reported third-quarter earnings of 11 cents per share, 2 cents a share above estimates. Revenue came in below forecasts, but comparable-store sales posted an unexpected increase. Lands’ End also gave a better-than-expected current-quarter earnings outlook. AK Steel (AKS) –