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A JetBlue plane Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Wednesday: Deutsche Bank named JetBlue as a ‘catalyst call’ short-term investment idea Deutsche said investors should buy the airline’s stock and that it had a “good” balance sheet and “solid” market position among other

A video sign displays the logo for Roku Inc, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, in Times Square after the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market in New York, U.S., September 28, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Roku’s streaming business is growing faster than Netflix was at a similar stage in the company’s life, according to

A customer stands at a counter inside a Verizon Wireless retail store in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Tuesday: Wedbush added Zynga to the ‘best ideas’ list Wedbush is bullish on Zynga‘s upcoming slate of new releases. “We think that key titles

A pack of Marlboro brand cigarettes is arranged for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tobacco giants Philip Morris and Altria confirmed on Tuesday they were in merger talks, making one or multiple traders millions of dollars, according to trader and CNBC contributor Jon Najarian. Najarian highlighted unusual activity

Holiday shoppers at a Target store in Culver City, California. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Despite retailers banking on acceleration in the fourth-quarter from holiday sales, Wells Fargo said fundamental trends have deteriorated. “While the majority of companies appear optimistic on their ability to drive solid growth in [the fourth quarter of 2019],

Investors should be wary when it comes to trusting China over President Donald Trump, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “I’m aghast we trust the People’s Republic of China more than we trust the White House,” Cramer said on “Squawk Box.” “The predominance of coverage this morning is that the President is lying. I’m not willing

Apple CEO Tim Cook visits an Apple store in Shanghai, China. Aly Song | Reuters Apple’s stock is helping lead U.S. stocks higher on Monday, buoyed by the possibility of re-opened trade negotiations with China, but a couple of Wall Street firms say the technology giant is better positioned than some might think even if

St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Friday the central bank should continue to ease monetary policy because of the recession signal being flashed by the bond market.  “The yield curve is inverted here. We’ve got one of the higher rates on the yield curve here. That’s not a good place to be,” Bullard told CNBC’s

James Bullard David Orrell | CNBC This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard spoke with CNBC’s Steve Liesman on Friday from the Federal Reserve’s economic policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “You take out the insurance, if nothing happens you take it back,” said Bullard. 

Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump speaks at the Saint Andelm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester, New Hampshire June 13, 2016. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images The White House is reportedly discussing a variety of options to try to juice U.S. economic growth ahead of the 2020 election, including

People walk by a Nike store in New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Seaport Global initiated KB Home, D.R. Horton, Lennar, and PulteGroup as ‘buy’ Seaport said that despite it being a “volatile” group, the firm had a “generally positive” view of the homebuilders.

In this photo illustration, a visual representation of a cryptocurrency sits on display in front of a Facebook logo. Chesnot | Getty Images Some original investors in Facebook’s digital currency project are considering leaving, the Financial Times reported Friday. Two Libra founders told the Financial Times they were worried about the regulatory spotlight that the

International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath speaks during a press conference in Washington D.C., on April 9, 2019. Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images The outlook for the global economy keeps getting bleaker, the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund said Friday. “As the year is progressing, it’s getting harder

Chinese shipping containers are stored beside a US flag after they were unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. – Global markets remain on red alert over a trade war between the two superpowers China and the US, that most observers warn could shatter global economic growth,

Customers try iPhones at the Apple store in Hong Kong, China. Stringer | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Multinationals that rely on the supply chain from China are tumbling after President Donald Trump ordered them to find alternatives to their Chinese operations. Shares of Apple, Nike and Caterpillar all tanked more than 3.5%, hitting their

A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, on Aug. 5, 2019. U.S. stocks plunged on Monday as investors worry that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened new tariffs on Chinese imports will worsen trade prospects. The Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 767.27 points, or 2.90 percent, to 25,717.74.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Arturo Estrella, the economist who first discovered the predictive power of the yield curve, has a message for recession naysayers: It could hit sooner than you think. “It’s been 50 years and 7 recessions with a perfect record,” Estrella told

Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said Thursday that while he reluctantly supported the central bank’s rate cut in July, he doesn’t see the case for additional stimulus. “We’re roughly where neutral is. It’s hard to know exactly where neutral is, but I think we’re roughly where neutral is right now. And I think we should

Federal Reserve officials who voted to lower interest rates three weeks ago agreed that the move shouldn’t be viewed as an indication that there is a “pre-set course” for future cuts, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. The summary indicated that policymakers viewed the move as a “mid-cycle adjustment,” an expression Chairman Jerome Powell used

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a news conference following the Federal Reserve’s two-day Federal Open Market Committee Meeting in Washington, July 31, 2019. Sarah Silbiger | Reuters Federal Reserve members worried over future growth are highly concerned about the U.S.-China tariff battle, citing the issue multiple times during discussions at the central bank’s July