The city skyline of Lujiazui Shanghai Center in China, on March 13, 2024. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened mostly higher Wednesday ahead of key August inflation data from China. The mainland’s August consumer price index is expected to fall 0.2% from the previous year, according to economists polled by Reuters,…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said that a Labor Department report released Tuesday confirmed that the U.S. economy is slowing down. The department revised lower its nonfarm payrolls data for the year through March 2025 by 911,000 jobs from initial estimates. That was on the high side of Wall Street’s expectations for a downward shift…
CoreWeave Inc. signage in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, May 9, 2025. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images CoreWeave shares jumped Tuesday on news that the cloud infrastructure company, which was one of the hottest IPOs of the year, launched a venture fund to invest in artificial intelligence startups. CoreWeave, considered…
(L-R) U.S. President Donald Trump and Rolex CEO Jean-Frederic Dufour arrive in the Rolex suite prior to the Men’s Singles Final match between Jannik Sinner of Italy and Carlos Alcaraz of Spain on Day Fifteen of the 2025 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 07, 2025 in New York…
Owngarden | Moment | Getty Images Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 0.9% to a record high, notching a second straight day of gains after the country’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation Sunday. The Topix rose 0.52%. “Investors are betting that the next leader from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could unleash a…
Daniel Ives, Wedbush Securities Scott Mlyn | CNBC Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives is joining a new company focused on accumulating Worldcoin (WLD), the native token of the blockchain used in Open AI creator Sam Altman’s biometric identity verification startup, World. Eightco Holdings, a tiny company that currently trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker “OCTO,”…
People walk by the New York Stock Exchange on April 4, 2025. Spencer Platt | Getty Images With capital harder to come by, private equity giants and investment banks are waging a global battle for talent as dealmaking activity ekes out a recovery. Private equity recruitment accelerated in the first half of 2025, led by…
The Tokyo Tower stands amid buildings at dusk in Tokyo, Japan. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to trade mixed on Monday as investors assessed the resignation of Japan’s prime minister and eyed key economic data in the region. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was set to open higher after Japanese Prime…
The conundrum of President Donald Trump is one I try to stay away from. Not because I don’t want to go there, but because it hasn’t been all that lucrative to do so. Because of the president’s sheer, endless presence in the media, and his love of CEOS — to hang with or to dominate…
Apple shareholders and investors betting on a Federal Reserve rate cut have received good news lately. The week ahead offers tests to both camps. Fresh off Friday’s soft jobs report, the other side of the Fed’s dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability will take center stage in the coming days. But first, we’ll…
