Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) walk into Statuary Hall for a news conference about the ongoing federal government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Senate on Friday is poised to vote once again on…
Shares of Palantir Technologies and Ralph Lauren could see a bounce next week as another raft of companies get set to report earnings. Among those on deck to deliver results next week are health care behemoths Eli Lilly , Merck and Pfizer . Semiconductor makers Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm report on Tuesday and Wednesday,…
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang spoke to journalists during a trip to Beijing in July. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were a student today, he says he’d focus on the physical sciences. During a trip to Beijing on Wednesday, Huang was asked by a journalist:…
IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday that major advances in quantum computing are fast-approaching. “The era of what’s called quantum supremacy is just around the corner,” De Masi said. “It’s coming in quarters and very low single-digit years, and that’s getting people, obviously, pretty excited about the fact that we’ll…
Sydney Harbour and the skyline of the central business district (CBD) in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Australia’s economy expanded more than expected in the second quarter of the year, marking the fastest pace of growth since September 2023. The country’s GDP grew 1.8% year over year,…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Oracle — The stock surged 39% after Oracle reported that multicloud database revenue from Amazon, Google and Microsoft grew at the rate of 1,529% in its last quarter. That helped investors look past fiscal first-quarter earnings and revenue from the company that came in weaker than…
Analysts remain largely split on IBM ‘s future after the tech stalwart posted key metrics that flashed warning signs heading into 2026. While IBM reported a third-quarter earnings and revenue beat , analysts pointed to metrics below the surface headline beat that might indicate a worrisome near-term setup for the stock: namely, softness in IBM’s…
Famed short seller Jim Chanos closed his closely-watched wager pitting Strategy against bitcoin , saying the valuation gap that once made the trade so compelling had largely vanished. Chanos said Saturday in a social media post on X that as of Friday’s market open he had unwound his pair trade of shorting Strategy and going…
Green Bay Packers star pass rusher Micah Parsons was forced out of Sunday’s game against the Denver Broncos with an apparent leg injury. Parsons grabbed his left knee as he tried to sack Broncos quarterback Bo Nix and immediately went down to the ground with 55 seconds left in the third quarter. The four-time Pro…
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 30th, 2025. NYSE The U.S. government will shut down on Oct. 1 stateside. Around 750,000 federal employees— including those in the Bureau of Labor Statistics — will be furloughed, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That means September’s jobs report will…
