Shoppers wait for a GameStop store to open on at the Tysons Corner Center, in Tysons, Virginia, November 27, 2020. Hannah McKay | Reuters GameStop rallied on Monday after the brick-and-mortar video game retailer announced its succession plan as it seeks to pivot to e-commerce following a historic Reddit-fueled short squeeze earlier this year. Shares of
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In this article DBSM-SG SINGAPORE — Singapore’s largest bank DBS Group Holdings said it’s not practical to cut off clients with coal exposure in the short term. DBS on Friday announced that it aims to eliminate thermal coal exposure by 2039. To get there, DBS will cease taking on new clients that derive more than
U.S. stock index futures declined in overnight trading on Sunday, after the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record highs on Friday. Futures contracts tied to the Dow slid 69 points, or 0.2%. S&P 500 futures dipped 0.3%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were 0.34% lower. Stocks are coming off a week of
In this article RUN SPG PNC Shoppers walk through the King of Prussia mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Jennah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Sunrun — The solar stock popped 10% after Simmons Energy, a division of Piper Sandler, upgraded the stock to overweight
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said Friday he sees the U.S. economy as set to take off, though not at a fast enough pace that the central bank should start tightening policy. “I think the economy is ready to rip,” Waller told CNBC’s Steve Liesman during a “Squawk on the Street” interview. “There’s still more
Coinbase is a popular option for buying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Todd Haselton | CNBC Watch out social media, finance apps are becoming a more popular form of entertainment on people’s phones. Trading platforms Robinhood and Coinbase grabbed the top two spots in Apple’s App Store this week as Americans turn their attention to stock
In this article DOGE.CM= A visual representation of dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Dogecoin started out as a joke. Now it’s a top-10 digital currency worth $34 billion. The cryptocurrency is based on the “Doge” meme, which rose to popularity in late 2013. The meme portrays a Shiba Inu dog alongside
Betterment launched a new savings option in 2019. Source: Betterment Trading apps aren’t the only ones benefiting from the rise of meme stocks. Betterment, a digital investment advisor, said it saw record growth in the first quarter of 2021. Despite offering so-called passive investing and not allowing clients to hand-pick stocks, Betterment’s CEO, Sarah Kirshbaum
There’s a significant risk catching economist Stephen Roach’s attention, and it has nothing to do with earnings season. Roach, one of the world’s leading authorities on Asia, is concerned U.S.-China relations could erode further in the coming weeks. “There are a lot of balls in the air right now that are very worrisome,” the former Morgan
The Reddit logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a displayed Wall Street Bets logo in this illustration taken January 28, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters It could be a big payday for Keith Gill, the Reddit trading crowd’s favorite and the man who inspired the epic GameStop short squeeze. Friday is the
In this article PPG AA DKNG QS The entrance from the elevators, designed to resemble a tunnel entering a stadium, is pictured at the new DraftKings office in Boston on March 25, 2019. David L. Ryan | The Boston Globe via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Thursday: QuantumScape
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE Stock futures were little changed in overnight trading on Thursday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 34,000 threshold for the first time ever. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 10 points. S&P 500 futures traded near the flatline and
Pedestrians pass in front of a Charles Schwab bank branch in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Retail investing behemoth Charles Schwab added more clients in the first three months of 2021 than in all of 2020. Schwab added a record 3.2 million new clients in the first quarter of 2021.
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., gestures while speaking during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Global Markets Conference in Paris, France, on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Christopher Morin | Bloomberg | Getty Images Government stimulus programs aimed at reducing suffering during the coronavirus pandemic have left consumers flush with
In this article @ND.1 @SP.1 @DJ.1 Scott Mlyn | CNBC Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. stock indexes ticked higher at the start of the overnight session Wednesday evening after the S&P 500 retreated from record levels during the regular session. Contracts tied to the Dow added 50 points, while those pegged to the
In this article GS David Solomon, CEO, Goldman Sachs, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galacia | CNBC Goldman Sachs on Wednesday blew past analysts’ expectations with record first-quarter net profits and revenues on strong performance from the firm’s investment banking and trading businesses. The bank posted per-share
Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — Investors are putting billions of dollars more into U.S. stock funds than Chinese ones, according to data from fund research firm EPFR Global. “The baton seems to be getting handed over,” said Cameron Brandt, director of research at EPFR, in an interview Friday. “A lot of investors think the
U.S. stock futures were flat in overnight trading on Tuesday ahead of the first batch of corporate earnings. Dow futures rose just 10 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.03% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.02%. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 climbed 0.4% to close at a record high. Equities shrugged off the Food and Drug
In this article COIN The Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange application seen on the screen of an iPhone. Getty Images Bitcoin surged to a fresh record high of more than $63,000 on Tuesday, as investors awaited the highly-anticipated stock market debut of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The price of bitcoin climbed 5% in the last 24 hours to
In this article 9988-HK A logo of Ant Group is pictured at the headquarters of the company, an affiliate of Alibaba, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 29, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters GUANGZHOU, China — Alibaba shares in Hong Kong jumped nearly 4% at the open on Tuesday after regulators ordered the e-commerce giant’s