Investors enter this Christmas-shortened trading week focused on two things. Will Santa Claus come to Wall Street? And, how do holiday shoppers feel about the economy? Last week was the final full trading week of 2025, and it was a volatile one. The AI trade went up and down, and the market was swayed by…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) With Warren Buffett’s planned departure as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO less than two weeks away, some on Wall Street have advice for incoming CEO…
Stocks finished higher Friday, lifted by the volatile artificial intelligence trade, leading the market to the upside for the week. The S & P 500 eked out a 0.1% weekly gain, while the Nasdaq gained 0.5%. While logging three positive weeks in the past four, the indexes were still modestly lower for the seasonally strong…
New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Friday that “technical factors” likely distorted November’s inflation data, pushing the headline reading lower than it otherwise would have been. “There were some special factors or practical factors that really are related to the fact that they weren’t able to collect data in October and not in…
Christopher Waller, governor of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during the C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, US, on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller had a “strong interview” for the central bank chair position…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Market moves : Stocks were solidly higher Friday afternoon, with the gains in the S & P 500 pushing the index into positive territory for the…
Oracle‘s stock jumped 8% Friday after the cloud provider joined a group of investors slated to lead TikTok‘s U.S. operations. In a memo to employees Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said the social media company’s U.S. division will be run by a joint venture that includes Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi-based MGX. The…
President Donald Trump‘s social media company will provide the capital needed to bring TAE Technologies‘ first fusion power plant online in the United States by 2031, TAE CEO Michl Binderbauer told CNBC on Thursday. Binderbauer spoke shortly after his privately held company and Trump Media and Technology Group announced plans for an all-stock merger valued…
House Republican leaders on Thursday committed to a vote in the new year on legislation to ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks. But the proposal likely will not include a provision that would ban stock trading or ownership by President Donald Trump or future presidents. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.,…
Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), during a committee on financial affairs meeting at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s central bank on Friday raised its short-term rates to a three-decade high, marching ahead with its policy normalization,…
