Starbucks on Tuesday reported its sixth straight quarter of same-store sales declines as the company implements a turnaround strategy. CEO Brian Niccol said in a statement that the company’s comeback is ahead of schedule, based on his past experience, which includes turning around Chipotle Mexican Grill after a series of food-safety scandals. “While our financial…
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 update: Stocks are slightly weaker, with the S & P 500 on track for its first negative session since July 18. Earnings could be the…
The nose cone of a Boeing 787 being displayed on the tarmac during the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport, outside Paris, June 25, 2023. Nicolas Economou | Nurphoto | Getty Images Boeing slashed its quarterly losses as sales jumped after it delivered the most airplanes since 2018, the clearest sign yet of improvement at…
A view of Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG facility located in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, as seen from Port Arthur, Texas, on June 23, 2025. Joel Angel Juarez | Reuters Shares of liquified natural gas, or LNG, companies rose Monday after the European Union agreed to purchase $750 billion of energy from the U.S. LNG exporters Cheniere…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer examined Monday’s market action and said he thinks the U.S.’s major trade deals failed to move stocks because investors’ focus is elsewhere this week. “Right now, we’re presuming these tariffs don’t matter,” he said. “What matters is earnings, unemployment, the Fed meeting and — you know what — dead last, tariffs.” The…
The logos of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether outside a cryptocurrency exchange in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. David Lombeida | Bloomberg | Getty Images The crypto market’s bullishness may be tipping into speculative frenzy, if the latest MicroStrategy-style copycat is any indication. On Monday, a little-known Canadian vape company saw its stock surge…
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai on Saturday, July 26, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use, echoing key aspects of DeepSeek’s market-shaking breakthrough. Startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, announced Monday that its new GLM-4.5…
Customers line up in front of the Laopu Gold Store in Shanghai, China, February 27, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Shares of Laopu Gold fell to their lowest levels since May 20 after the Chinese jewelry upstart forecasted its net profit for the first half of 2025 would increase between 279% and 288% year over…
When is a beat and raise not a beat and raise? That’s a question that has frustrated us this earnings season. Case in point: How about Honeywell ‘s beat and raise last week? Here’s a conglomerate splitting into three different companies, which also has a quantum computing business that’s probably more advanced than any of…
Buckle up. It’s a jam-packed week ahead, with a host of influential companies set to report alongside a Federal Reserve meeting — and, if that wasn’t enough, there’s fresh inflation and jobs data, too. On top of all that, we will be digesting the latest trade headlines ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline set by…
