A FlexJet Gulfstream G450 airplane approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing on May 9, 2025 in San Diego, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images An investment group led by LVMH’s private equity arm is buying 20% of private jet company Flexjet, marking the latest push by the luxury industry…
An employee handles one kilogram gold bullions at the YLG Bullion International Co. headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 22, 2023. Chalinee Thirasupa | Bloomberg | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions,…
Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel at a Neo Material Technologies Inc. factory in Tianjin, China on June 11, 2010. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s exports of rare-earth magnets to the United States in June surged more than seven times from the prior month, as American firms clamor to get…
President Donald Trump speaks at a dinner for Republican Senators at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2025. Photo by Allison Robbert/For The Washington Post via Getty Images The U.S. has signaled it will not let up on its Aug. 1 deadline for higher tariffs on the European Union as the bloc…
New Ram vehicles sit on a Dodge Chrysler-Jeep Ram dealership’s lot in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Auto giant Stellantis expects a net loss of 2.3 billion euros ($2.68 billion) in the first half of the year amid pre-tax net charges and early effects of U.S. tariffs, the company said Monday in its…
A store in a shopping mall in Beijing on Aug. 7, 2024. Pedro Pardo | Afp | Getty Images Fierce price wars in China are hitting industries from cars to food deliveries to solar panels, squeezing profits and worsening the country’s deflationary slide. Though consumers may be lured by ultra-cheap deals, the trade-offs for them…
A staff member counts Singapore dollar currency notes at Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on October 6, 2022. Roslan Rahman | Afp | Getty Images In times of uncertainty, investors turn to safe-haven assets — gold, Treasuries as well as currencies such as the Japanese yen, U.S. dollar and the Swiss franc. These…
The Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 2025. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Despite being beaten down by years of U.S. trade restrictions, China’s telecom giant Huawei has quietly emerged as one of the country’s fiercest competitors across the entire AI landscape. Not only does the Shenzhen-based firm appear to represent Beijing’s answer…
Conventional wisdom holds that as we get closer and closer to the coming deadline for tariff resolution, the market will become more treacherous, especially for highly valued stocks. I don’t know who writes these stories. I always check the bylines and I have never worked with them or hired them. I will tell you this: their…
Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Monday, June 30, 2025. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Sunday denied a Wall Street Journal report suggesting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talked him out of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Bessent reportedly…
