Ted Pick, CEO Morgan Stanley, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 18th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Morgan Stanley on Wednesday posted record revenue and profit for the second quarter, driven by a 69% surge in equities trading revenue. Here’s what the company reported: Earnings…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Prime Minister of Iraq Ali al-Zaidi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2026. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran early Wednesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump…
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images PayPal jumped in premarket trading Wednesday after Stripe and Advent International reportedly made a joint offer to acquire the payments firm in a $53 billion deal. Payments firm Stripe and private equity company Advent are planning to buy PayPal for $60.50 per share, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing two…
Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images American megabanks on Tuesday gave evidence that the global artificial intelligence boom isn’t just benefiting tech giants and chip makers. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase each posted record quarterly revenue…
People work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on July 07, 2026 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images International Business Machines shares plummeted 25% on Tuesday after the hardware, software and consulting provider released preliminary second-quarter results that fell short of expectations. The stock logged its worst day…
Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty Images Europe has spent years rebuilding its military in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, investment is increasingly converging around one technology that is seen as central to the continent’s future security: drones. A flurry of announcements over the past two weeks shows just how quickly that shift…
ASML on Wednesday raised its guidance for the second time this year as its customers continue to ramp up production capacity of AI chips. The Dutch semiconductor-equipment maker said it now expects full-year sales to come in between 43 billion euros ($49 billion) and 45 billion euros, and a gross margin of between 54 and…
Consumer prices pulled back in June on the heels of lower energy and gasoline prices, a reversal after moving sharply upward in recent months due to the Iran war. However, inflation risks re-igniting in coming months amid renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, economists said. The consumer price index, an inflation barometer, rose 3.5%…
Drone view of oil tanker HELGA berthed at one of Iraq’s southern offshore oil terminals near Basra as it prepares to load crude oil, becoming the second vessel to arrive since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, April 24, 2026. Mohammed Aty | Reuters Oil prices rose in choppy trading Wednesday as U.S. forces…
YANTAI, CHINA – JULY 14, 2026 – Containers parked at Yantai Port International Container Terminal in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on July 14, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s economy in the second quarter grew at its weakest pace since 2022, as an accelerating slide in investments deepened the strain on…
