Month: October 2025
Wall Street divided: Jim Cramer sees 3 distinct stock markets at work right now
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that Wall Street is a land divided — with three distinct markets existing under the surface that are all behaving differently. “We’ve got a speculative market, and then we’ve got a market that is keying on tech, and then we’ve got a regular market that isn’t doing anything,” Cramer said […]
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Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel says it’s ‘scandalous’ the U.S. doesn’t have a rare earths reserve
UNITED STATES – NOVEMBER 10: Jeremy Siegel, the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, addresses the Securities Industry Association during their annual meeting in Boca Raton, Florida, Thursday, November 10, 2005. Matt Stroshane | Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s control over crucial rare earth materials has been a “threat for a […]
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Salesforce adds voice calling to Agentforce AI customer service software
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce is adding voice to its Agentforce software, letting clients go beyond text when using artificial intelligence agents to respond to customer questions. With Agentforce Voice, companies can customize the tone […]
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Rare earth stocks surge on U.S-China trade dispute over the critical minerals
A dump truck moves raw ore inside the pit at the Mountain Pass mine, operated by MP Materials, in Mountain Pass, California, U.S., on Friday, June 7, 2019. Joe Buglewicz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of U.S. rare earth miners surged in early trading Monday, after President Donald Trump threatened China with retaliation over […]
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Trio win 2025 Nobel economics prize for work on innovation and ‘creative destruction’
The announcement of the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 13, 2025. Jonathan Nackstrand | Afp | Getty Images Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for their work on how innovation and the forces […]
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Retaliation or escalation? Trust between the U.S. and China is fading fast, analysts say
Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — The flare-up in tensions between the U.S. and China over the weekend highlights the deepening mistrust dividing the world’s two biggest economies. In the two […]
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JPMorgan Chase says it will invest $10 billion into industries critical for national security
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Capital Markets conference in Paris, France, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Cyril Marcilhacy | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase on Monday said it is launching a decade-long plan to help finance and take […]
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Xiaomi shares see biggest drop since April after fatal EV crash sparks safety concerns
A Xiaomi electric car SU7 in a store in Yichang, Hubei Province, China on July 19, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Chinese tech giant Xiaomi saw its shares fall over 5% on Monday, following reports that the doors of one of its electric vehicles failed to open after a fiery crash in […]
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European markets open higher as mining stocks rebound sharply amid new U.S.-China trade spat
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. Dan Kitwoodnicholas Kamm | Afp | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks opened higher on Monday, with mining stocks rebounding as traders kept a close eye on a new trade dispute brewing between the U.S. and China. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was up 0.6% at 8:30 […]
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China September exports beat expectations, imports rise at fastest pace since April 2024
A cargo ship carries foreign trade containers on the Jiaozhou Bay waterway in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, on August 5, 2025. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images China’s exports climbed at the fastest pace in six months in September, while imports logged their strongest gain in more than a year, even as a trade deal […]
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