Investment strategy
Many on Wall Street saw this ‘TACO’ coming as Trump’s brinkmanship starts to lose grip on market
Key Points The “TACO” trade — TACO being shorthand for Trump Always Chickens Out — has increasingly shaped positioning. Each bout of geopolitical-driven selling has become progressively more muted since April 2025. The market’s growing confidence is also raising a new question: What happens if markets stop acting as a constraint on Trump? Wall Street […]
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Anthropic gives our cyber stocks and other big tech names an AI stamp of approval
Project Glasswing. Sounds like something out of a spy movie. But those two words from AI poster-child Anthropic, and the efforts behind it, have sent beaten-down cybersecurity stocks soaring, along with a host of other megacap names. Glasswing — named after a butterfly with see-through wings as a metaphor for finding bugs in plain sight […]
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Iran ceasefire, Delta earnings, the Navy’s retail woes and more in Morning Squawk
1. ‘Fragile truce’ A television station broadcasts a news conference with US President Donald Trump on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, April 6, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stock futures rocketed higher overnight after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with […]
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FTSE Russell confirms Vietnam’s emerging market status
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM – APRIL 6: People ride motorbikes on a street on April 6, 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The city, which has the highest number of registered motorbikes in the country, is seeing growing economic pressure on workers who rely on motorcycles for their livelihoods amid fluctuating fuel prices […]
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U.S. oil price plunges below $100 after Iran agrees to safe passage through Strait of Hormuz during ceasefire
U.S. crude oil prices plunged Tuesday evening, after President Donald Trump agreed to suspend attacks on Iran for two weeks in exchange for Tehran allowing safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The West Texas Intermediate contract for May delivery fell about 15% to $95.63 per barrel by 7:48 p.m. ET. Trump said the two-week […]
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Is it time to buy tech, again? A flurry of good news from Broadcom may hold the answer
Has tech bottomed? That’s the question investors have been asking since the relief rally on the final trading day of March, which marked the end of the first quarter. Before Tuesday’s decline, driven by concern about President Donald Trump ‘s Iran deadline, the tech-heavy Nasdaq closed higher in each of the past four sessions. It […]
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Strait of Hormuz blockage upends global helium supply. This U.S. company could benefit
Exxon Mobil stands to gain as the Middle East war continues to squeeze global helium supply , according to UBS. The five-week-old war against Iran could pose a threat to the semiconductor sector, alongside other industries that depend on helium, such as medical imaging and space rockets. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that before the […]
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Trump Accounts put Robinhood in front of the next generation of investors, says CEO Vlad Tenev
Robinhood’s new partnership with the U.S. Treasury Department on children’s so-called Trump Accounts is going to drive exposure to the company among emerging investors, benefiting its future growth, according to Vlad Tenev. On Monday, the Treasury said it has selected Robinhood alongside BNY Mellon to help power Trump accounts – tax-deferred, custodial-style investment accounts for […]
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Broadcom lands big deal for its specialty chips. Wall Street sees the stock rising as much as 80%
Wall Street is buying the long-term bull case for Broadcom after the semiconductor firm deepened its relationship with Anthropic and signed a deal with Google . Under its latest agreement with Anthropic , Broadcom will supply multiple gigawatts of next-generation tensor processing unit capacity for the Claude maker’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. The semiconductor supplier also […]
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Trump’s Iran deadline, the Altman-Musk feud, Novo’s Wegovy pill and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Good morning, and congratulations to everyone who had the Michigan Wolverines winning their March Madness bracket. Stock futures are lower this morning after all three major averages closed Monday’s session higher. Here are five key things investors need to know to start […]
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