Wall Street is gearing up for a good earnings season, but there are other variables to keep in mind beyond the headline numbers. First-quarter earnings per share are expected to grow 12.3% year over year, above the 11.4% average seen going back to 2009, according to S & P Capital IQ. Still, investors are keeping…
College students look for employment opportunities at the Large-scale Recruitment Fair for Science and Engineering Universities on March 24, 2026 in Harbin, China. Tyne Chin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Hi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — a succinct snapshot of…
United States men’s national team striker Patrick Agyemang’s World Cup hopes are in doubt after he was carried off on a stretcher while playing for Derby in the second-tier English Championship on Monday. Agyemang landed awkwardly while bringing the ball down on his chest and collapsed to the grass. He was visibly emotional as he…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors shouldn’t get comfortable calling a market bottom just yet, because the real driver of this market isn’t geopolitics – its interest rates. On Monday, Cramer noted that the S&P 500 may have bottomed last Monday, March 30, but emphasized that the turning point wasn’t “anything related to stocks themselves,” during…
A television station broadcasts a news conference with US President Donald Trump on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, April 6, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images S&P 500 futures were little changed on Monday night as President Donald Trump’s Tuesday deadline for Iran…
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan speaks at the digital X event in Cologne, Germany, on September 13, 2022. Ying Tang | Nurphoto | Getty Images Broadcom said Monday that it’s agreed to produce future versions of artificial intelligence chips for Google, and the chipmaker signed an expanded deal with Anthropic that will give the AI startup…
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appears at the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the Department of Commerce, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 10, 2026. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is scheduled to appear May 6 before the…
Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz speaks during an event sponsored by the Action for Progress Coalition, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 2, 2026. Al Drago | Reuters The Trump administration on Monday finalized a 2027 payment rate increase to privately run Medicare plans that…
Based on the odds, Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza will be the first player whose name comes off the board later this month in the NFL Draft. But how many quarterbacks will join Mendoza as first-round picks? For that matter, how many running backs, wide receivers and other positions will have the distinction of being selected in…
