Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith (L) and Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pose before their meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on April 3, 2026. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Shares of Sakura Internet surged as much as 20.2% Friday after Microsoft said it has begun discussions with the…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal commission on Thursday announced lawsuits against three states over its ability to exclusively regulate prediction markets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it was taking Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois to court…
United Airlines Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images United Airlines hiked its checked bag fee by $10 on Thursday, becoming the second U.S. carrier in less than a week to raise the fee as the industry grapples with this year’s surge in fuel costs, airlines’ biggest expense after labor. United’s new fee will be $45…
Asia-Pacific markets traded higher Friday, after Iran and Oman were reportedly drafting a protocol to “monitor transit” through the Strait of Hormuz, raising hopes that the crucial waterway could partially reopen. Tanker traffic through the key oil-shipping route “should be supervised and coordinated” with the two countries, said Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister of legal…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer outlined Thursday what investors should watch in the week ahead, including Middle East developments, major earnings releases and key economic prints. The “Mad Money” host’s weekly game plan follows a volatile session on Wall Street. Stocks ripped higher Thursday on media reports that Iran is working with Oman to draft a protocol…
Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Coinbase received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, to operate as a trust bank, the company said Thursday. If finalized, the crypto exchange will be able to operate payment products in addition to its custody business under federal supervision, Coinbase’s…
A year ago, on April 2, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump appeared in the White House Rose Garden with an announcement that would become one of the defining policies of his second term. The president unveiled a vast list of country-specific tariffs in what he dubbed his “liberation day” trade policies — a move that…
Talk about a confusing and frustrating market. Following two days of gains fueled by optimism on an Iran war resolution, Wall Street went back in sell-off mode Thursday morning after President Donald Trump’s primetime address was filled with escalatory rhetoric. That sent oil prices higher and stocks lower to start the day — the inverse…
JINHUA, CHINA – JULY 16: Employees work on the assembly line of new energy vehicles at an intelligent factory of Leapmotor on July 16, 2025 in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by Jin Sicheng, Zheng Yali, Shi Kuanbing/Zhejiang Daily Press Group/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images A Hong…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday cautioned that the market’s recent rebound is falling short of what investors should expect from a durable rally. “Whenever the market gets clobbered and then starts crawling back, you always hold out hope that there’ll be a broad advance,” Cramer said on “Mad Money.” But after two days of gains,…
