Silvergate Capital SI, -11.27% served as one of the main banks for the crypto industry, prior to its collapse earlier this week. The news came just a week after the firm delayed its annual report to t...
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Stock market could ‘take it hard’ as expectations grow for a 6% fed funds rate
U.S. stock investors are clearly not too happy with what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has said in the past two days. And there’s reason to think they’ll get even more dissatisfied in the wee...
European companies showing ‘surprise resilience’ — and better value than the U.S.
A trader works as a screen displays the trading information for BlackRock on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, October 14, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters LONDON — Eur...
How investors can learn to live with inflation: BlackRock
Growth stocks may have led the early 2023 rally, but stubbornly high inflation means that won’t last. That’s the main message from the BlackRock Investment Institute on Monday, as U.S. stocks attempte...
JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi beat earnings expectations, but worries about headwinds remain
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. managed to beat Wall Street’s reduced expectations for their fourth-quarter profits as higher interest rates b...
Take profits on Starbucks after its huge run, and check out these 3 other stocks
In Friday’s “Morning Meeting,” we dug into our inbox and found an excellent question raised by a member of the Investing Club. Starbucks – like Halliburton – has had a nice run latel...
JPMorgan Chase, Wendy’s and more
A sign is posted in front of a Wendy’s restaurant on August 10, 2022 in Petaluma, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. JPMorgan ...
Zelenskyy, BlackRock CEO Fink agree to coordinate Ukraine investment
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Oliver Contreras | Bloomberg...
New top House Republican on markets isn’t as anti-ESG as some GOP want
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Chairman of the House Financial Service Committee Maxine Waters (D-CA) listen as David Marcus, CEO of Facebook’s Calibra, testifies on “Examining Facebook’s...
Activist investor calls for BlackRock CEO Fink to step down over ESG ‘hypocrisy’
Larry Fink, Chairman and C.E.O. of BlackRock arrives at the DealBook Summit in New York City, November 30, 2022. David Dee Delgado | Reuters LONDON — BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is facing calls to step d...
More trouble is brewing in the $24 trillion Treasury market: This time, it’s about central clearing
Efforts to reduce risks within the nearly $24 trillion U.S. Treasury market, the world’s deepest and most liquid securities market, are ironically creating angst among market players. The anxiety is c...
Oatly, Amazon, Hasbro and more
A carton of Oatly brand oat milk is arranged for a photograph in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies ma...
Classic 60/40 investing strategy sees worst return in 100 years. How about 40/60?
Rules of thumb in investing appear to no longer apply in the carnage of 2022 in financial markets. Advocates for the 60/40 portfolio split, designed to capture the upside of stocks, but offer investor...
Thursday was ‘one of the craziest days of my career’ in markets, says Rick Rieder
Investors have witnessed some “pretty crazy” times in financial markets these past few weeks, with Thursday’s wild fluctuations ranking among the “craziest days of my career,” said Rick Rieder, the ch...
Don’t ‘be a hero’ while the Fed battles inflation
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday warned investors against adding to their portfolios until the stock market and economy become less volatile. “This economy is a runaway train; it’s smashe...
GE to convert gas-fired power station into battery storage facility
Pylons photographed in the U.K. The project involving Centrica and GE will store energy from onshore wind farms in Lincolnshire. Gareth Fuller | PA Images | Getty Images A decommissioned gas-fired pow...
HSBC warns investors to avoid European stocks in the search for value
Fog shrouds the Canary Wharf business district including global financial institutions Citigroup Inc., State Street Corp., Barclays Plc, HSBC Holdings Plc and the commercial office block No. 1 Canada ...
Measuring climate investment risk is capitalism
Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc. Christopher Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire businessman and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the investing behemoth Blac...
BlackRock to invest over $700 million in Australian battery storage
Wind turbines in Australia. Earlier this year, a report from Australia’s Clean Energy Council said renewables were responsible for 32.5% of the country’s electricity generation in 2021. Jo...
Coinbase shares soar in boost from meme traders, BlackRock crypto deal
The logo for Coinbase Global Inc, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron and others at Times Square in New York, U.S., April 14, 2021. Shannon Staple...
Stop panicking about inflation, BlackRock CEO tells investors — ‘We’re going to get through this’
The economic headwinds currently roiling the U.S. economy are fixable in the long-run, meaning investors can afford to relax a bit, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday. ...
UnitedHealth, Wells Fargo, Pinterest and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: UnitedHealth (UNH) – The health insurer’s stock rose 1.7% in the premarket after its quarterly earnings and revenue beat forecasts, and ...
Jim Cramer says the market could see ‘pleasant surprises’ going forward
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday said that most of the sellers have already left the market, which means that the turbulence in stocks could ease up. “To me, this mad scramble to get out ahead ...
Harvard expert warns of potential ‘harm’ to index investing, as Republican bill takes on ‘woke fund managers’
Senators and legal experts tussled Tuesday over the merits of a Republican bill that aims to reduce the voting power of the three index-investing giants — BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. Republi...
McDonald’s shareholders vote on Carl Icahn proxy fight over animal welfare
Signage outside a McDonald’s Corp. fast food restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images McDonald’s shareholders meeting on...
Sen. Cruz blasts Larry Fink over ‘woke’ shareholder votes on climate
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Sen. Ted Cruz blasted BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Tuesday for so-ca...
Elon Musk and Cathie Wood knock passive index investing, saying it’s gone too far
Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest, gestures as she speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022 in Miami, Flo...
Carl Icahn McDonald’s shareholders letter calls out Wall Street ESG ‘hypocrisy’
Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn released his letter to McDonald’s shareholders on Thursday, calling out compensation amon...
Here’s the playbook if the rest of the world breaks free from the U.S. dollar, says Credit Suisse’s monetary plumbing guru
It’s pretty well accepted that no one knows as much about the plumbing of the world’s financial system as Zoltan Pozsar, global head of short-term interest-rate strategy at Credit Suisse, who was the ...