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Trump to start final Fed chair interviews beginning with Kevin Warsh
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Trump to start final Fed chair interviews beginning with Kevin Warsh

watch now VIDEO1:5301:53 President confirms search for the next Fed chair is still on Squawk Box President Donald Trump will begin the final interviews of candidates for the Federal Reserve chair this week, putting back on track the formal selection process that began this summer. “We’re going to be looking at a couple different people, […]

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GameStop, AeroVironment, Cracker Barrel & more
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GameStop, AeroVironment, Cracker Barrel & more

Check out the companies making the biggest moves before the bell: AeroVironment — The drone maker slid more than 4% on the back of a fiscal second-quarter earnings miss. AeroVironment earned 44 cents per share, well below an LSEG estimate of 78 cents per share. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store — The restaurant stock dropped […]

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IMF’s Georgieva urges China to speed up ‘long-overdue’ shift away from relying on exports for growth, so as ‘not to provoke’ other countries
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IMF’s Georgieva urges China to speed up ‘long-overdue’ shift away from relying on exports for growth, so as ‘not to provoke’ other countries

Key Points China needs to speed up its decades-long plan to increase its reliance on consumption as a driver of growth, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told reporters Wednesday. She said such a move was needed “so as not to provoke other countries to take measures to curb down Chinese exports.” The IMF on Wednesday […]

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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: AeroVironment, GE Vernova, Cracker Barrel and more
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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: AeroVironment, GE Vernova, Cracker Barrel and more

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. AeroVironment — Shares of the defense technology provider slid more than 4% after its second-quarter earnings missed analyst expectations, coming in at 44 cents per share on an adjusted basis. That’s well below the 78 cents per share that analysts surveyed by LSEG estimated. The company’s […]

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There’s no Dow or S&P 500 for cryptocurrencies yet. Bitwise is getting a step closer with new ETF
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There’s no Dow or S&P 500 for cryptocurrencies yet. Bitwise is getting a step closer with new ETF

Key Points The Bitwise 10 Crypto Index ETF (BITW) holds the following 10 digital assets: Bitcoin, ether, XRP, Solana, Chainlink, Litecoin, Cardano, Avalanche, Sui and Polkadot. This makes BITW the first ETF by a major crypto asset manager to include Cardano, Avalanche, Sui and Polkadot, Bitwise CEO and co-founder Hunter Horsley told CNBC. Source

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Exxon, SLM, CVS, AutoZone, Ares, Staar Surgical and more
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Exxon, SLM, CVS, AutoZone, Ares, Staar Surgical and more

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Gogo — The in-flight Wi-Fi provider dropped 10% after announcing an investment in satellite communications company Farcast . The terms were not disclosed in the announcement. Exxon Mobil — The oil giant jumped 2.7% after it updated its corporate plan through 2030. Exxon said it now […]

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Fifth Third signs deal making fintech firm Brex the provider of its commercial cards
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Fifth Third signs deal making fintech firm Brex the provider of its commercial cards

Key Points Fifth Third struck a deal with Brex to make the fintech firm the provider of its commercial cards and expense management tools for business clients.   The program will run on Brex’s embedded payments platform and backed by AI tools. Fifth Third is in the process of acquiring Comerica, a deal expected to […]

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Home Depot, Ares, Viking, CVS, Nvidia & more
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Home Depot, Ares, Viking, CVS, Nvidia & more

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Nvidia — President Donald Trump said the U.S. will allow the tech giant to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China and elsewhere. The U.S. will get a 25% cut for the sales, which are only allowed for approved customers. Shares gained 1%. […]

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Trump’s pivot on Nvidia chips gives China a leg up over the U.S. in AI race, analysts say
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Trump’s pivot on Nvidia chips gives China a leg up over the U.S. in AI race, analysts say

Key Points U.S. President Donald Trump announced Nvidia will be able to sell a more advanced H200 chip to China. Several analysts were quick to point out this move would help boost China’s AI capabilities. Beijing has emphasized it aims to bolster homegrown tech and reduce reliance on foreign inputs. Source

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Can AI make you the next Warren Buffett? One bank is working to find out
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Can AI make you the next Warren Buffett? One bank is working to find out

Deutsche Bank is putting artificial intelligence’s investment skills to the test. The bank asked its dbLumina AI model to pick a basket of funds from the most popular funds used by typical retail investors as of the end of November. Research analyst Luke Templeman fed dbLumina a week of the same daily market analyses from […]

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