Month: March 2025
‘Reassuring update from AI leader’: What analysts are saying about Broadcom’s blockbuster earnings
Broadcom ‘s blowout first-quarter earnings seem to have assuaged analysts’ recent fears toward the battered artificial intelligence trade. Rising market uncertainty and trade tensions have weighed down the semiconductor stocks as of late. AI poster child Nvidia is on pace to end the week 10% lower, and on Tuesday the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite entered correction […]
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Why Trump’s crypto order disappointed: ‘This is not the aggressive bitcoin reserve some were pressing for’
President Donald Trump on Thursday night officially established the widely anticipated U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve , fulfilling a major re-election campaign promise to the crypto industry. The market didn’t seem to care much, however. Cryptocurrencies have recovered most of their initial losses after a quick drop following the news. Bitcoin was hovering at $88,000, the […]
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Family office dealmaking doubled in February with bets on crab shells, nuclear reactors and more
A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high net worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Last month, family offices made at least 48 direct investments, double that of the month prior, according to data […]
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Treasury Secretary Bessent says economy could be ‘starting to roll a little bit’
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attends at an Economic Club of New York event in New York City, U.S., March 6, 2025. Jeenah Moon | Reuters Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday acknowledged some signs of weakness in the U.S. economy. “Could we be seeing that this economy that we inherited starting to roll a […]
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U.S. payroll growth totals 151,000 in February, less than expected
Job growth was weaker than expected in February though still stable despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash the federal workforce. Nonfarm payrolls increased by a seasonally adjusted 151,000 on the month, better than the downwardly revised 125,000 in January, but less than the 170,000 consensus forecast from Dow Jones, the Labor Department’s Bureau of […]
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Trump 2.0 is leaving investors ‘overwhelmed’ — and strategists warn the volatility isn’t over
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on March 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed a series of executive orders, including lifting 25% tariffs for all goods compliant under USMCA trade agreement. Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images Global markets have been […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Walgreens, Broadcom, Gap, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Broadcom — Shares of the chipmaker jumped 10% after the company’s fiscal first-quarter results beat Wall Street’s estimates on both the top and bottom lines. Broadcom also issued rosy guidance for the current quarter. The company forecasts second-quarter revenue of $14.9 billion, above the $14.76 billion […]
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DOGE layoffs may ‘overwhelm’ unemployment system for federal workers, report finds
Key Points The Trump administration — with the help of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, which the president says is headed by Elon Musk — has fired tens of thousands of federal workers. The scale of cuts will likely be flood the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) with claims and […]
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Chipmakers are finding that good earnings aren’t enough to please Wall Street
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gives a keynote address at CES 2025, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Jan. 6, 2025. Steve Marcus | Reuters More than two years into the generative artificial intelligence boom, Wall Street is setting an increasingly high bar for chipmakers. When it comes to earnings reports […]
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Active managers keep lagging the market: Why it’s so tough to beat the indexes
S & P Dow Jones Indices is out with its annual survey of the performance of active fund managers, and once again the performance is dismal. Sixty-five percent of large-cap fund managers underperformed their benchmark (the S & P 500) in 2024. The long-term performance is even worse: 84% underperformed after 10 years. The SPIVA […]
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