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Asia-Pacific markets open mixed as investors parse Japan trade data
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Asia-Pacific markets open mixed as investors parse Japan trade data

Mount Fuji and the Shinjuku skyline in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell Wednesday as investors parsed trade data that just came out of Japan. Japan’s exports in November grew 6.1% year on year, data from the country’s […]

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Stock futures are little changed as traders absorb shaky U.S. economic data: Live updates
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Stock futures are little changed as traders absorb shaky U.S. economic data: Live updates

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York on December 16, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Stock futures traded near the flatline after the S&P 500 fell Tuesday, as investors weighed newly released U.S. economic data. S&P 500 futures slipped 0.08%. […]

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Hyperscaler AI spending could slow down if Oracle shows ‘discipline’
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Hyperscaler AI spending could slow down if Oracle shows ‘discipline’

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday proposed that action from Oracle could slow down other hyperscalers’ enormous artificial intelligence spending, saying the OpenAI partner should show “discipline.” “Oracle already has a huge amount of debt. Their balance sheet’s not that good. At some point, they’ll heed the warning of the bond market and slow things down,” […]

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Jim Cramer says Amazon is a buy on 2025 underperformance for this key reason
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Jim Cramer says Amazon is a buy on 2025 underperformance for this key reason

Jim Cramer says investors better act fast while Amazon stock is still on the sale rack. BMO Capital Markets’ decision to raise its estimates on Amazon’s cloud unit is a “clarion call to buy” the stalled stock, Jim Cramer said during Tuesday’s Morning Meeting for Club members. Amazon has been the worst-performing “Magnificent Seven” stock […]

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Nasdaq moves to make trading nearly 24 hours. Why some on Wall Street say that’s a bad idea
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Nasdaq moves to make trading nearly 24 hours. Why some on Wall Street say that’s a bad idea

The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nasdaq is moving closer to around-the-clock stock trading, a shift that some on Wall Street are calling unnecessary — and potentially destabilizing. The exchange said it plans to submit paperwork to the Securities and Exchange Commission […]

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Investors are all in on stocks: Bank of America survey shows record low cash level
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Investors are all in on stocks: Bank of America survey shows record low cash level

While the market may be stalling into year-end, investors are keeping the faith, Bank of America data shows. The share of portfolios in cash fell to a record low 3.3% in December, according to the bank’s Global Fund Manager survey. That’s down from 3.7%. Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America, dubbed the […]

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Payrolls rose by 64,000 in November after falling by 105,000 in October, delayed jobs numbers show
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Payrolls rose by 64,000 in November after falling by 105,000 in October, delayed jobs numbers show

A “Help Wanted” sign hangs in a restaurant window in Medford, Massachusetts, Jan. 25, 2023. Brian Snyder | Reuters Nonfarm payrolls grew slightly more than expected in November but slumped in October while unemployment hit its highest in four years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday in numbers delayed by the government shutdown. Job […]

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Oil prices tumble to lowest since May, on pace for biggest annual decline in 7 years
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Oil prices tumble to lowest since May, on pace for biggest annual decline in 7 years

Oil prices held on to most gains from the previous session in early trading on Thursday as investors awaited U.S.-China trade talks later in the day. Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty Images U.S. crude oil on Tuesday hit the lowest level since May, putting prices on pace for the worst performance in seven years […]

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Kevin Warsh moves ahead in Fed chief race on Kalshi after Hassett pushback
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Kevin Warsh moves ahead in Fed chief race on Kalshi after Hassett pushback

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council (L), and Kevin Warsh, former governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Reuters Kevin Warsh has surged ahead of Kevin Hassett in prediction markets betting on who President Donald Trump will nominate as the next chair of the Federal Reserve, as doubts grow inside Trump’s orbit about Hassett’s […]

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Jobs data, Tesla’s rally, tariff revenue hits 0 billion and more in Morning Squawk in Morning Squawk
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Jobs data, Tesla’s rally, tariff revenue hits $200 billion and more in Morning Squawk in Morning Squawk

An employee hiring sign is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, April 7, 2023. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Economics 101 Investors and economic […]

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