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S&P 500 futures are little changed after index posts longest win streak since November: Live updates
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on April 29, 2025 in New York City. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images Stock futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were little changed Tuesday night after the blue-chip index posted its longest winning run since July. Futures tied to […]
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CNBC Daily Open: U.S. consumers are starting to feel the pinch of Trump tariffs
A Dollar Store on April 1, 2024, in Lansing, Michigan, U.S. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tariffs unleashed — and temporarily, almost capriciously, paused — by U.S. President Donald Trump have given governments across the world a headache as they figure out how to minimize disruptions to their economies. But the […]
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CNBC Daily Open: The real victims of Trump tariffs — U.S. consumers?
A Dollar Store’s shelves stand bare on April 1, 2024 in Lansing, Michigan, U.S. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tariffs unleashed — and temporarily, almost capriciously, paused — by U.S. President Donald Trump have given governments across the world a headache as they figure out how to minimize disruptions to their […]
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S&P 500 futures are little changed after broad index notches fifth straight winning day: Live updates
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., April 24, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters S&P 500 futures were near the flatline on Monday night, after the fifth straight winning session for the benchmark, as investors awaited more earnings reports. Futures tied to the broad index […]
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Fund manager owns just one Mag 7 stock after dumping Meta stake: ‘You have to pick the stock you really believe in’
Nvidia is in — and Meta is out. That’s according to Stephen Yiu, co-founder and lead fund manager of London’s Blue Whale Growth Fund. The fund held 29 stocks as of the end of March this year, with top holdings including Apollo , Nvidia, Broadcom and TSMC , and more than a third of its […]
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Microsoft says U.S. can’t afford falling behind China in quantum computers
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks during signing ceremony of cooperation agreement between the Polish Ministry of Defence and Microsoft, in Warsaw, Poland, February 17, 2025. Kacper Pempel | Reuters The U.S. cannot afford to fall behind China in the race to a working quantum computer, Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote Monday. President Donald Trump and […]
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Palantir is soaring while its tech peers are sinking. Here’s why
Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., speaks during the AIPCon conference in Palo Alto, California, US, on March 13, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech stocks have struggled in 2025, as recession and trade war fears sap investor appetite for riskier assets. Palantir is the exception. Against a […]
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PayPal kicks off fintech earnings as investors fear impact of Trump tariffs on consumer spending
FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with the PayPal logo is placed on a laptop in this illustration taken on July 14, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters PayPal, Block and Affirm are all closely tied to the health of the consumer, which has investors on edge headed into their earnings reports. Markets broadly have been jittery to […]
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Cloud software vendors Atlassian, Snowflake and Workday are betting on security startup Veza
From left, Veza founders Rob Whitcher, Tarun Thakur and Maohua Lu. Veza Tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia have captured headlines in recent years for their massive investments in artificial intelligence startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But when it comes to corporate investing by tech companies, cloud software vendors are getting aggressive as […]
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These are 3 big things we’re watching in the stock market this week
The stock market bounce last week showed once again just how dependent Wall Street has become on the whims of the White House. Case in point: The S & P 500 sank more than 2% this past Monday as President Donald Trump was attacking Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and providing scant details on tariff […]
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