MasterCard and Visa cards are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on March 29, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Fintech company Ant International announced Thursday it has signed on Visa and Mastercard to collaborate on a new standard for payments made via AI agents, in a bet that they will…
President Donald Trump disclosed just over 1,000 financial transitions for the month of June in what appears to be broad reshuffling of his portfolio. The president rotated in and out of stocks, bonds and exchange-traded funds throughout the month. The transactions totaled between $78.1 million and $263.1 million, according to Trump’s latest filing on Aug….
Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty Images Synchrony Financial, the credit card issuer for brands including Amazon, Walmart and Lowe’s, is working with OpenAI to allow shoppers to buy products directly inside ChatGPT using their store cards. The deal is one of the first major moves by a U.S. consumer lender to bring financing, payments…
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. The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday afternoon after the conclusion of its July meeting . Unlike recent meetings when markets had a strong…
Stablecoin issuer Circle surged after the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, granted it approval Friday to operate as a trust bank, the company said. Shares of the company were off their initial highs but last trading up 5%. The approval gives the company the ability to manage reserves directly for…
TOPSHOT – People take photographs with Mount Fuji at Lake Yamanakako in snow in Yamanakako, Yamanashi prefecture on December 5, 2025. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP via Getty Images) Yuichi Yamazaki | Afp | Getty Images Travelers who require a visa to enter Japan will pay up to five times more from July 1,…
The yen rose on Monday, helped by comments from Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda who left the door open to a near-term rate hike. Javier Ghersi | Moment | Getty Images Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is increasingly finding herself in an unenviable position on the foreign-exchange front. After deploying over 11.7 trillion yen…
Warren Buffett speaks with CNBC during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, NE on May 2, 2026. David A. Grogan | CNBC Billionaire investor Warren Buffett hinted in March that Berkshire Hathaway had made a small addition to its portfolio. A new regulatory filing may have just revealed what he was referring to….
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) ABEL OVERHAULS PORTFOLIO Notable positions cut, Alphabet more than tripled, Delta is back Berkshire Hathaway’s equity portfolio got one of its biggest renovations ever…
Warren Buffett and Greg Abel during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. CNBC Berkshire Hathaway added a sizeable stake in Delta Air Lines, marking the conglomerate’s return to the airline industry after exiting the sector entirely during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The Omaha-based company built a position…
