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Asia-Pacific stocks trade mixed as investors await China trade data
The view of Nanjing Road East Pedestrian Mall, the main shopping street in Shanghai. Bruce Yuanyue Bi | The Image Bank | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were mixed Friday as investors awaited China’s April trade data amid worries of a significant slowdown in exports growth due to U.S tariffs. Economists polled by Reuters estimate outbound […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Wall Street cheered U.S.-UK trade deal — London market, not really
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks on the phone to U.S. President Donald Trump at a car factory in the West Midlands, Britain, Thursday, May 8, 2025. Alberto Pezzali | Via Reuters The U.K. is the first country to seal a trade deal with the U.S. Cue the jubilations. And investors certainly did, giving the […]
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Trump elevates Marco Rubio as a potential successor — and as a 2028 rival to Vance
As President Donald Trump tiptoed away this week from the idea that he might try to win a third term, he opened the door to a fresh round of intrigue: Whom does he see as his successor? In practically the same breath in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Trump suggested national security adviser and Secretary […]
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Affirm drops 10% on weaker-than-expected guidance for current quarter
PayPal Inc. co-founder and Affirm’s CEO Max Levchin on center stage during day one of Collision 2019 at Enercare Center in Toronto, Canada. Vaughn Ridley | Sportsfile | Getty Images Affirm, the provider of buy now, pay later loans, gave a revenue forecast for the current quarter that trailed analysts’ estimates even as profit for […]
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These 6 portfolio names pledged big U.S. investments since Trump took office again
Many of the biggest U.S. companies have pledged to invest trillions of dollars in the United States since President Donald Trump started his second term — including six names in our portfolio. These moves are aimed at aligning companies with the president’s vision for a new global trade order designed to bring manufacturing jobs back […]
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Trump says it is ‘such an honor’ that Vatican elected first U.S. pope
President Donald Trump congratulated Robert Francis Prevost after his election as pope Thursday, making him the first American-born pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Prevost, 69, of Chicago, will be known as Pope Leo XIV. “It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope,” Trump wrote on […]
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Josh Brown on the UK trade deal rally and how he’s playing it
CNBC Pro contributor Josh Brown brushed off President Donald Trump’s U.K. trade deal plan that’s sent the market higher on Thursday and warned that the recent upswing could lose steam. “Against all odds, the U.S. managed to make a trade deal with its greatest ally of the last 200 years,” Brown, CEO of Ritzholtz Wealth […]
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American Robert Prevost chosen to be Pope Leo XIV
White smoke rises from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, indicating that a new pope has been elected at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. Dylan Martinez | Reuters Roman Catholic cardinals selected a new pope on the second day of their conclave Thursday, signaling the election with plumes of white smoke billowing from a chimney […]
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Bitcoin jumps above $100,000 for first time since February
Harun Ozalp | Anadolu | Getty Images Bitcoin on Thursday hit its highest level since February, climbing back above the key $100,000 level. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by more than 4% at $100,801.04, according to Coin Metrics. The move began overnight after President Donald Trump first teased an announcement between […]
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Trump says he’s pulling nomination of Ed Martin for top D.C. federal prosecutor
U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement about a trade deal with the U.K., in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 8, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will pull his controversial nomination of Ed Martin to be the top federal prosecutor for […]
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