Iraqi Shiites shout slogans as they carry a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and wave Iran flags during a protest against US and Israeli attacks on Iran at a bridge leading to Green Zone where the US embassy is located, in Baghdad on February 28, 2026. Several hundred people protested against the…
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sits to testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the Department of Commerce, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 10, 2026. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has voluntarily agreed…
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. Stocks were lower but well off Tuesday’s worst levels as the market grappled with a constant stream of headlines about the Iran war and a continued…
President Donald Trump says combat will continue in Iran until U.S. “objectives” are complete. Those objectives and the justification for the war have remained fluid more than 48 hours into the conflict. Trump and his proxies have not been aligned on their narrative, leading to confusion about how Trump and his advisors are defining the…
MINNEAPOLIS — Target on Tuesday posted another quarter of falling revenue and customer traffic at its stores, though its shares rose as the retailer’s earnings beat estimates and it said it is poised to end its sales slump. The big-box retailer, which is in the middle of a turnaround effort, said sales and traffic trends…
Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has told CNBC that Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is “cleaner” than Netflix’s, adding he expected it to be approved “pretty quickly.” “There’s a lot of concerns when Netflix was the potential buyer there,” Carr said on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in…
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem looks on before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on March 3, 2026. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., criticized Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on…
John Williams, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, speaks during an Economic Club of New York (ECNY) event in New York, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. David Dee Delgado | Bloomberg | Getty Images American consumers and businesses are taking most of the hit from President Donald…
A prolonged surge in natural gas prices triggered by the ongoing war in the Middle East risks denting European growth and hitting some Asian economies hard, analysts have warned. Global gas prices have soared this week amid fears of a lengthy disruption to energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz — a key shipping route…
Versant Media Group, the newly minted spinout of TV networks and digital assets from Comcast, released its first earnings report on Tuesday. The company reported full-year revenue of roughly $6.69 billion for 2025, down 5% from the prior year. Versant is reporting a breakdown of its earnings from its final year under the ownership of…
