Picture taken on September 4, 2023 shows windmills at the Nysted Offshore Wind Farm constructed by Danish windpower giant Orsted in 2002-2003 in the Baltic Sea near Gedser in Denmark. Thomas Traasdahl | Afp | Getty Images Beleaguered wind farm operator Orsted announced Thursday that it intends to reduce its workforce by a quarter toward…
Roundhill Investments resurrected an exchange-traded fund focused on meme stocks on Wednesday, aiming to give everyday investors a simple way to play the new class of buzzy-yet-volatile stocks. But if history repeats itself, that could signal the trade — and broader market — is already losing its steam. Roundhill said the Meme Stock ETF, which…
Two HSBC bank logos are displayed on an office building in Mexico City, Mexico, July 25, 2025. Henry Romero | Reuters Hang Seng Bank shares jumped 29.5% Thursday after parent HSBC announced plans to take it private, valuing the lender at more than 290 billion Hong Kong dollars (over $37 billion). HSBC, Europe’s largest lender,…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable about “Antifa,” an anti-fascist movement he designated a domestic “terrorist organization” in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 8, 2025. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night stateside that Israel and Hamas had…
Asia-Pacific markets were set to open higher Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains as investors shrugged off concerns of an artificial intelligence bubble. Nvidia shares advanced Wednesday stateside after CEO Jensen Huang said that demand for AI computing is “substantially” up in the last six months. Stocks of CoreWeave also jumped after the AI cloud provider…
Federal Reserve officials in September were strongly inclined to lower interest rates, with the only dispute seeming to be over how many cuts were coming, meeting minutes released Wednesday showed. The meeting summary indicated near unanimity among participants at the Federal Open Market Committee that the central bank’s key overnight borrowing rate should be cut…
AST SpaceMobile on Wednesday announced a deal with Verizon to provide cellular service from space beginning next year. This deal aims to bring direct-to-service connection via space to cell phone users “when needed” on Verizon plans, according to AST. It marks an expansion of a partnership between the two companies announced last year. AST shares…
Steel worker at the blast furnace tap of the at the Salzgitter AG steelworks on March 02, 2020 in Salzgitter, Germany. Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images The European Union’s decision to hike steel tariffs and sharply cut import quotas has provoked widespread concern in the U.K., as well as rumblings of…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined CNBC’s Jim Cramer for a special Investing Club interview on Tuesday at the New York Stock Exchange. With dozens of Club members in attendance for our October Monthly Meeting, Jensen answered questions about Nvidia’s most important partnerships, including Oracle , Intel , CoreWeave , and OpenAI. Here is a rapid-fire…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s optimistic that the United States and China can work through trade and technology disputes. It’s important to keep America at the forefront of the generative AI boom. “AI is going to be foundational and transformative to every single country. President Trump wants America to win the AI race,” Jensen…
