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Ronald McDonald in a McDonalds restaurant. Zhang Peng | LightRocket | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Tuesday: SunTrust initiated DR Horton, KB Home, & PulteGroup as ‘buy’ SunTrust said pointed to the potential growth of all three home builders in its new coverage of DR Horton, KB Home, and

Farmers hand pick sweet corn on in Olathe, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson | The Denver Post | Getty Images The U.S. corn harvest will be bigger than previously forecast, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday, as the government issued a surprise boost to its yield estimate despite ongoing concerns in the country about a

Panoramic Images | Getty Images Many global investors are turning toward Silicon Valley instead of Wall Street in search of returns. The total invested in private markets hit all-time highs last year and continues to break multi-decade records this year. In the first half of the year, total investments in venture capital hit a 19-year

The Roku IPO at the Nasdaq, September 28, 2017. Source: Nasdaq Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Monday: Needham raised its price target on Roku to $150 from $120 Needham said Roku’s “value proposition” among advertisers is “growing.” “Key take-aways from this report include: a) given similar valuations, we prefer Roku to

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images; Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Boeing investors face more questions than answers as its 737 Max crisis drags on, but the company could find a way forward by turning to an unlikely example: Chipotle Mexican Grill. Chipotle shares were on an incredible run from the company’s IPO to

Getty Images Investment giant BlackRock just became the largest stakeholder of Sports Illustrated’s parent company. BlackRock bought roughly a 30% stake in Authentic Brands Group for $875 million, the company’s chief executive officer Jamie Salter CNBC’s Brian Sullivan in a phone interview on Sunday. The deal values the brand management company around $4 billion to

A man enters a Dollar Tree discount store in Garden City, New York. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Wall Street analysts are scrambling to asses the damage in the latest fallout in the trade war between the U.S. and China. President Donald Trump recently announced that a new 10% tariff would go into effect on $300

A trader reacts on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., August 5, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The clock is ticking for the relief rally to turn sour, according to Nomura macro and quant strategist Masanari Takada. And by his count, the market has only three good trading

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Do stock analysts truly have insights for investors about earnings or are they just riding the market? That’s the question Morgan Stanley heard from investors after it detailed a new artificial intelligence strategy in June that studied its own analyst

Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc., speaks during an interview in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Akio | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said SoftBank‘s head “doesn’t throw good money after bad” and that the company and its financial backer’s interests are aligned as the Japanese conglomerate

Peter Navarro, director of the National Trade Council. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Beijing plans to devalue its currency — and if it does, the U.S. will respond forcefully. “They’re going to and we’re going to take strong action against them,” Navarro told CNBC’s “Closing Bell”

A Verizon store in New York City. Getty Images High-dividend stocks are starting to stand out as winners as bond yields continue to collapse. Since late July, the S&P Dividend ETF, which bundles high-dividend stocks, has started to outperform the S&P 500 ETF Trust, which mimics the performance of the entire S&P. Since last week,

Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Apple Pay, speaks during an Apple product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on March 25, 2019 in Cupertino, California. Michael Short | Getty Images Goldman Sachs is casting a wide net for customers of its new credit card with Apple, approving some subprime borrowers for

Pricing in a trade war is hard enough, but it’s being made even more challenging by having to account for President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. Markets are recovering now from the latest episode in which the president has made policy via social media, announcing a week ago that he intends to enact tariffs on all

Investor Steve Eisman is predicting bad things ahead for anyone betting on online real estate site Zillow, which has been trying to expand its operations but faces a stiff challenge. The managing director and senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman has been shorting Zillow for some time, and explained to CNBC in an interview Thursday that the

President Donald Trump‘s trade war comes with an aggressive and clear-cut strategy but a fuzzy endgame, namely that it’s unclear just what victory would look like. True, there are lofty ambitions: a world without tariffs, a “level playing field” with China where goods would flow freely between the two nations, and the promise of untethered

The Federal Reserve’s “midcycle adjustment” to interest rates could be morphing into something considerably more serious, judging by recent market action. After the rate cut approved last week, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell quickly doused market expectations that the move was a sign of an extended period of monetary easing. Powell mostly expressed optimism in the

Bank stocks are getting slammed this week as the trade war heats up, but according to some analysts, that selling is misplaced. Wall Street took collapsing bond yields Wednesday to mean trouble for the economy, and investors fled positions in the largest U.S. financial institutions. Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America led

White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow told CNBC on Tuesday that he believes the United States holds the upper hand in trade negotiations with China due to the comparative strength of the U.S. economy. “The Chinese economy is crumbling. It’s just not the powerhouse it was 20 years ago,” Kudlow said on CNBC’s “Squawk on

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Bryan R. Smith | AFP | Getty Images Wall Street’s summer swoon likely isn’t over yet. Several chart analysts are pointing out that while the market has dropped sharply over the the past few days, it still has a long way to go before