Wall Street
Financials are the best performing stocks of 2024. Here’s one corner that could do especially well
Financial stocks are the best-performing group in 2024 and, even though they’re widely thought to have more room to run as a sector, a subset of them are even more favorably positioned. The S & P 500 financial sector has surged 36% so far this year, outpacing both the communication services and information technology sectors […]
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Donald Trump selects Kevin Hassett to lead National Economic Council
Key Points President-elect Donald Trump picked Kevin Hassett to lead the National Economic Council. The move brings Trump closer to rounding out his economic team, with U.S. trade representative being the last of the key positions left. Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social. Source
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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Zoom Communications, Kohl’s, Semtech and more
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Zoom Communications — The maker of video calling software inched higher by nearly%. Zoom topped Wall Street quarterly estimates and posted fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share guidance that was roughly in line with estimates. The company also said it changed its name to Zoom […]
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Wall Street launches new ways to bet on bitcoin
For years, bitcoin won by being boring. Investors weren’t able to do all that much with it besides buy and hold it. But that was precisely why the world’s largest cryptocurrency was valuable. It was a commodity, like gold — or corn. It didn’t get too fancy on its offerings. In fact, bitcoin’s core team […]
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Analyst Dan Clifton breaks down why the stock market rallied the way it did after the election
There’s one key reason the U.S. stock market rallied after this month’s presidential election, and it wasn’t necessarily because of the outcome, according to Dan Clifton of Strategas. “What we saw was that the market was pricing in a 50-50 election. [Investors] didn’t know who was going to win,” Clifton, the firm’s head of Washington […]
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Deutsche Bank sees the S&P 500 hitting 7,000 in 2025 on the back of rising risk appetite
The bull market is poised to extend through 2025, boosted by solid demand for stocks from investors as well as strong corporate activities, such as buybacks and other spending, according to Deutsche Bank, which is calling for the S & P 500 to rise as high as 7,000. Binky Chadha, Deutsche Bank chief global strategist, set a year-end 2025 […]
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Warren Buffett speaks out against creating family wealth dynasties, gives away another $1.1 billion
Warren Buffett David A. Grogan | CNBC Warren Buffett, who has amassed a $150 billion personal fortune, made a strong case against creating “dynastic” wealth as he named three independent trustees to oversee his philanthropy following his children and donated another $1.1 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to four family foundations. Instead of leaving his three children an […]
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Bitcoin vs. gold: State Street worries the crypto rally’s allure is distracting precious metal investors
The bitcoin rally is generating a false sense of security among investors, according to the strategist behind the so-called granddaddy of gold exchange-traded funds. State Street Global Advisors’ George Milling-Stanley warns cryptocurrency plays don’t offer the stability of gold. “Bitcoin, pure and simple, it’s a return play, and I think that people have been jumping […]
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Citadel’s Ken Griffin says Trump’s tariffs could lead to crony capitalism
Ken Griffin, chief executive officer and founder of Citadel Advisors LLC, speaks during an Economic Club of New York event in New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images Citadel CEO Ken Griffin issued a warning against the steep tariffs President-elect Donald Trump vowed to implement, saying crony […]
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Archegos’ Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for massive U.S. fraud
Archegos Capital Management founder Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang attends his sentencing on a fraud conviction stemming from the 2021 collapse of his $36 billion private investment firm, at the United States District Court in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., November 20, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Former billionaire investor Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang was […]
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