CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday earnings season has revealed investing themes he thinks will produce the market’s best buying opportunities. “I love themes. They help you craft a portfolio of stocks with the wind at their backs, not in their faces — the kind of stocks that you can confidently buy more of when they…
The Japan flag juxtaposed against a Japanese yen bank note. Javier Ghersi | Moment | Getty Images The unprecedented U.S.-Japan intervention to support the yen may end up shaping market behavior. Japan has intervened in currency markets before, but this episode was bigger than usual. It was backed by Washington, reportedly executed using the euro-yen…
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf speaks at a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2, 2025. Shadati | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Iran’s chief negotiator has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of staging “theater diplomacy,” as Washington and Tehran offer conflicting accounts of bilateral engagement aimed at ending the months-long hostilities. “‘Massive…
United Wholesale Mortgage at the NYSE, January 22, 2021 Source: The New York Stock Exchange Shares in UWM Holdings, parent of United Wholesale Mortgage, plunged 40% Thursday after the biggest U.S. mortgage lender suspended its dividend and raised fresh capital. UWM announced a $2.05 billion equity investment from Oaktree Capital Management and SFS Group Capital…
HONG KONG, CHINA – 2026/03/06: A young shopper walks past a commercial advertisement for the Nintendo Switch, depicting the gaming character Mario, in Hong Kong. (Photo by Sebastian Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Nintendo reported fiscal first-quarter earnings on Thursday, beating analysts’ revenue and profit estimates, even as…
SoftBank on Thursday reported profit for its fiscal first quarter that beat market expectations, driven by a huge gain on its stake in Intel, while a rise in ByteDance’s value helped its Vision Fund division. The Japanese giant said net profit for the June quarter totaled 347.3 billion Japanese yen ($2.2 billion). That beat the…
Honeywell Aerospace shares tumbled 11% on Wednesday evening after the company reported weak quarterly results and cut its full-year outlook due to supply chain stumbles. It’s a rough look for the newly public maker of cockpit systems and other aircraft parts, which split from Honeywell Technologies in late June. Revenue in the second quarter ended…
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, US, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. Tom Brenner | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon has warned that leverage across financial markets remained elevated, adding that investors should be mindful that…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday investors looking at Elon Musk’s SpaceX should stop thinking in quarters and start thinking in decades. “SpaceX could be a 100-year piece of paper,” the “Mad Money” host said, arguing that SpaceX should be viewed much like the century-long railroad investments that ultimately rewarded patient investors. “Maybe you put some…
A live feed shows SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on the day of SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York City, U.S., June 12, 2026. Jeenah Moon | Reuters SpaceX shares plunged on Wednesday after a surge in AI spending rattled investors and clouded an otherwise expectation-beating quarter. The stock was…
