Get ready. The earnings season is picking up steam. More than two dozen S & P 500 companies are set to report this week. Among them are Netflix, Intel and United Airlines. The fourth-quarter reporting period got off to an uneven start last week. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase all topped analyst…
The poster child for China’s electric car boom is also an underappreciated leader in batteries. That’s the latest call from Bernstein, whose analysts this week reiterated an outperform rating on Hong Kong-traded shares of Chinese automaker BYD . BYD is the second-largest battery manufacturer in the world measured by electric vehicle installations — shipping 70%…
World Economic Forum security badges Leonie Kidd | CNBC Davos Season I have been going to the World Economic Forum since 2009, when I was a young news assistant on “Squawk Box Europe” and had no idea what I was getting into. Back then, and still now, it is CNBC International’s biggest outside broadcast of…
Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell at a party at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, 1995. Davidoff Studios Photography | Archive Photos | Getty Images The U.S. Justice Department has asked a New York federal judge to deny a request by two lawmakers seeking an appointment of a special master to monitor the public release of…
Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh participates in a news conference at the team practice facility in Owings Mills, Maryland, on Dec. 29, 2025. Baltimore Sun | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The New York Giants hired John Harbaugh as coach on Saturday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press….
Stocks finished last week slightly lower as the market battled a series of political headlines and policy news. To start the week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said he is under criminal investigation by the Trump administration related to the $2.5 billion renovation at central bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. The market didn’t like the…
European Council President Antonio Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Paraguay’s President Santiago Pena and Argentina’s President Javier Milei during the signing ceremony of a free trade agreement between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur, ending more than 25 years of negotiations, in Asuncion, Paraguay, on Jan. 17, 2026. Cesar…
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, saying he deserves the “wrongful gains” that they received from his…
U.S.President Donald Trump arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, in Michigan, U.S., January 13, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Eight NATO members’ goods sent to the U.S. will face escalating tariffs “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland,” President Donald Trump announced Saturday. The tariffs…
Artificial intelligence is no longer a narrow technology trade. It is reshaping energy markets, infrastructure spending, and portfolio construction. Investors who focus only on chips and software risk missing where the next phase of value is occurring, according to investing experts on this week’s episode of CNBC’s “ETF Edge.” Some of the trends and innovations…
