The stock market reached records again this week, propelled by the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates for the first time since last December. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq hit a number of all-time closing highs this week, one as recently as Friday, after the Fed announced a quarter-point reduction to the…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 19, 2025. Ken Cedeno | Reuters The Trump administration stepped in to stop U.S. Steel from idling operations at its Granite City, Ill., plant, exercising new powers tied to the company’s recent takeover, the Wall Street Journal…
Torsten Asmus | Istock | Getty Images Longer-term Treasury yields jumped this week, flying in the face of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut, as bond investors didn’t get the assurances they sought. The 10-year Treasury yield jumped as high as 4.145% after briefly falling below 4% this week. The 30-year Treasury yield — closely…
Kevin Durant #35 of the Phoenix Suns looks on during the second half against the Houston Rockets at PHX Arena on March 30, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. Chris Coduto | Getty Images NBA star Kevin Durant has regained access to his bevy of bitcoins, years after getting locked out of his Coinbase account. “We got…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday walked investors through next week on Wall Street, telling them to pay attention to new economic data and earnings from Micron and Costco. He also suggested many sectors will continue to rally, even as some investors may be skeptical of recent gains. “One of these days, we will have a…
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins gives opening remarks at a roundtable with the SEC’s Crypto Task Force at the Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters on April 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Paul Atkins, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said his agency will propose a rule change…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday explained why he thinks certain Big Tech names wield unique power in the market. “If you want to make money in the market, you have to recognize the megacap stocks are their own animals and don’t have to be linked to the federal funds rate,” he said. He pointed in…
Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks, the Club’s director of portfolio analysis, on Thursday ran through all 31 portfolio holdings during the September Monthly Meeting. The two went over the best ways to play the stock market in the last months of 2025 while considering factors like the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions, President Trump’s tariff…
Kevin Durant #35 of the Phoenix Suns looks on during the second half against the Houston Rockets at PHX Arena on March 30, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. Chris Coduto | Getty Images NBA superstar Kevin Durant can’t find the password to his Coinbase account, which holds bitcoin that he began buying in earnest when he…
Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper said the Federal Reserve could cut rates a bit more, but then risks more inflation and other dangers to the economy and markets if the central bank goes further than that. In other words, be careful what you wish for. “If they go too much more on interest rates, depending what…
