China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao spoke alongside other senior officials at a press conference on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images BEIJING — The U.S. and China can still find ways to work together, Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told reporters Friday, ahead of an expected meeting between…
Investors looking to earn income and keep pace with inflation should turn to dividend-growth stocks, according to investor Kevin Simpson. Dividend stocks in general should get a boost from the Federal Reserve ‘s rate-cutting cycle, he said. As yields come down in bonds, dividend payers begin to look relatively more attractive to income investors. The…
(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) The market continues to bait and trap aggressive bears, with the two-day purge of speculative and high-momentum stocks either pausing or finished, allowing upbeat earnings and a tireless dip-buying bid to carry the…
Bullish investors usually triumph in the end, CNBC’s Jim Cramer suggested. He explained why he thinks it makes sense to stay in the market, reviewing recent events that worry many on Wall Street. “If you’re going to think of the market as a tug of war between the bulls and the bears, would you at…
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 airplane approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing with high rises in downtown San Diego in the background on August 15, 2025 in San Diego, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images Alaska Air lowered its 2025 profit forecast on Thursday as higher fuel costs and…
A HDR evening shot taken at sunset of the Tokyo skyline. Fgm | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets rose Friday, after the White House said that U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping were set to hold talks next week. U.S. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump will leave for Malaysia late…
Signage outside Applied Materials headquarters in Santa Clara, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chip equipment manufacturer Applied Materials is laying off 4% of its workforce. The company on Thursday began notifying impacted employees around the world “across all levels and groups,” it said in a…
NBA and FanDuel online sports betting signage is displayed on the side of a building in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 5, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images “This is the insider trading saga for the NBA.” That was FBI Director Kash Patel’s message at a news conference Thursday, announcing the arrests of…
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Oct. 22, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock futures are little changed Thursday night ahead of a key inflation print. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 13 points, or 0.03%. S&P futures ticked up 0.06%,…
Hall of Fame basketball player Carmelo Anthony said Thursday, in the wake of bombshell indictments detailing illegal NBA betting, that the rapid rise of sports gambling is putting growing pressure on today’s athletes. Speaking with CNBC Sport, the former New York Knicks star said the betting culture “mentally affects” players. “They may say they don’t…
