Artificial intelligence is no longer a narrow technology trade. It is reshaping energy markets, infrastructure spending, and portfolio construction. Investors who focus only on chips and software risk missing where the next phase of value is occurring, according to investing experts on this week’s episode of CNBC’s “ETF Edge.” Some of the trends and innovations…
As earnings season continues, CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday walked investors through next week on Wall Street, highlighting quarterly reports from companies including Netflix, Intel, Capital One Financial and McCormick. “It’s an awfully odd week, this second week of earnings season, as light as the next week is heavy,” Cramer said. “Except for a couple…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday suggested a strong quarter from Taiwan Semiconductor renewed Wall Street’s faith in artificial intelligence stocks, including industry leader Nvidia. “Taiwan Semi made mincemeat of the skeptics who’ve been doubting AI’s staying power,” he said. “They said something that we have only heard from Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia — the…
People walk past Morgan Stanley global headquarters in Manhattan on March 20, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Morgan Stanley on Thursday reported fourth-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street expectations on the back of strong revenue from wealth management. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street analysts surveyed…
Warren Buffett and Greg Abel walkthrough the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025. David A. Grogen | CNBC In the final stretch of his tenure atop Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett was still pursuing that elusive elephant. The 95-year-old legendary investor, who handed over the CEO reins to Greg Abel…
A screenshot of the PixVerse AI video generation home page showing sample clips. Screenshot BEIJING — An Alibaba-backed startup is pushing artificial intelligence toward real-time, interactive video creation. PixVerse on Tuesday released an AI tool that allows users to control how a video unfolds while it is being generated. And just like a movie director,…
A Venezuelan living in Colombia waves a Venezuelan flag and a U.S. flag at Plaza de Bolivar to celebrate after U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, in Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 3, 2026. Andres Galeano | Reuters Venezuela’s stock market has…
Precious metals are jumping to records. The U.S dollar is dropping. Stocks are choppy. Monday is all about the “Sell America” trade after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s bombshell announcement that he’s under criminal investigation — which market participants see as a sign of President Donald Trump‘s interest in stripping away the central bank’s political…
A tower crane stands above residential buildings in an urban district in the afternoon light, on January 9, 2026, in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s push into high-tech industries isn’t large enough to offset the country’s property slump, leaving the economy more exposed to trade tensions,…
BlackRock came into 2026 with a clear investment plan built around three pillars: artificial intelligence, income, and diversification. Jay Jacobs, BlackRock’s head of equity exchange-traded funds, laid out ways in which ETFs fit into the shifting market bets from the world’s largest asset manager, which oversees more than $13 trillion from investors. Investors should remain…
