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China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. Nicholas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images Wall Street strategists are preparing for what they call “a major escalation” in the wake of President Donald Trump’s announcement that a

Sand destined for the oil and gas fields piles up at the EOG Resources processing plant in Chippewa Falls, Wisc. Steve Karnowski | AP After shakey earnings for oil producer EOG Resources, the company’s stock is well-positioned to outperform, according to Mizuho Securities. The firm maintained its buy rating and $122 price target on EOG

Bill Murray and Warren Buffett Arnold Jerocki | GC Images | Getty Images; Adam Jeffery | CNBC Two American icons hung out in an Omaha, Nebraska ice cream shop on Thursday afternoon. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett sat down for ice cream with actor and comedian Bill Murray at Ted and Wally’s, a store in Omaha’s

The surprise tariffs President Donald Trump announced Thursday against $300 billion or so of Chinese goods takes the trade dispute between the two countries to a new level, even though in dollar terms it doesn’t amount to a whole lot. The president’s announcement jolted markets, which had bounced back sharply off Wednesday’s disappointing Fed rate

Source: SmileDirectClub SmileDirectClub is bracing for a windfall of cash. The company, which provides invisible teeth-straightening devices, is looking to sell up to $1 billion in stock in an initial public offering, three people with knowledge of the matter said. SmileDirectClub is currently on file confidentially and aiming to flip its IPO prospectus to be

Mario Gabelli Scott Mlyn | CNBC Shares of RPC, Inc., a small oil and gas company based in Atlanta, jumped following positive comments from billionaire investor Mario Gabelli. “I’ve been following it for 50 years,” Gabelli told CNBC’s “Halftime Report ” of the stock, which closed Monday at $5.54 a share. “If you look at

A scientist at Gilead Sciences analyzes patient antibody levels at the Gilead laboratory in Foster City, Calif. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Now is a good entry point into Gilead’s stock as the company begins to stabilize, while still trading at a discount to its peers, according to RBC Capital Markets. The

A trader on the New York Stock Exchange.  Brendan McDermid | Reuters Critics of passive investing argue it is inflating the prices of high-flying stocks such as Amazon and creating a bubble in those names. However, data compiled by Ned Davis Research shows the bubble may be forming elsewhere. The firm found that real estate

On Wednesday, a big trader, perhaps the infamous trader know as “Fifty Cent” (named for his/her propensity to buy  VIX call options worth 50 cents), bought some 261,000 VIX calls at the August 21st expiry 20 strike calls. (The CBOE Volatility Index is called the stock market’s fear gauge, tracking the price of options on

Brian Moynihan, CEO, Bank of America Scott Mlyn | CNBC Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: KBW upgraded Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America to ‘outperform’ from ‘market perform’ KBW said the three banks are best positioned to benefit from an “extended” economic cycle. “We are upgrading shares of Citigroup,

A woman enters Bear Stearns headquarters in New York, March 14, 2008. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A former trader at Scotia Capital and Bear Stearns pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal crime and admitted manipulating precious metals markets for nine years — the latest in a series of crackdowns in the commodities

Source: Betterment Regulators have asked online wealth advisor Betterment to clarify some details surrounding its new checking and savings accounts just hours after they were launched. The digital wealth-management start-up unveiled new accounts that offer as much as a 2.69% annual yield. But Betterment was asked to provide more specifics to one of its regulators

A vacuuming Roomba model robot is displayed at iRobot headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S.-China trade war is badly hurting iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Shares of iRobot plummeted more than 13% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company’s top executive said tariffs

Billionaires Carl Icahn and Warren Buffett. Getty Images (l) | CNBC (r) Activist investor Carl Icahn thinks Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub got played by the Oracle of Omaha himself, Warren Buffett, in the company’s effort to buy Anadarko Petroleum. “Buffett figuratively took her to the cleaners,” Icahn said in a letter to shareholders Monday.

Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Companies are moving their supply chains out of China instead of waiting for a trade resolution between Washington and Beijing, BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink

CEO of Apple Tim Cook attends China Development Forum 2019 at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on March 23, 2019 in Beijing, China. Han Haiden | Visual China Group | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Nomura Instinet raised its price target on Apple to $180 from $175 Nomura raised

Tesla Model 3 is being displayed for the press members ahead of 97th Brussels Motor Show at Brussels Expo Center in Brussels, Belgium on January 19, 2019. Dursun Aydemir | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Tesla got a boost on Friday from one of its biggest Wall Street skeptics, who now sees Elon Musk’s electric

Signage is displayed outside Morgan Stanley & Co. headquarters in the Times Square neighborhood of New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Morgan Stanley‘s rich clients may have gotten surprised by their tax bills this year. The bank’s wealth management business was hit by an unexpectedly high outflow of deposits in the second

Andrew Left, founder and CEO of Citron Research Adam Jeffery | CNBC Andrew Left’s Citron Capital posted a net return of 24.7% after fees and expenses in the first half of 2019, according to an investment letter posted on the fund’s website Wednesday, but said “it has been an extraordinarily challenging environment to be a

A woman walks past JP Morgan Chase’s corporate headquarters in New York. Getty Images A few of the largest U.S. banks on Tuesday warned investors of the effect multiple interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve could have on their bottom lines throughout the rest of 2019. J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs all

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has concerns about Facebook’s cryptocurrency and its potential illicit use. In a press conference Monday, he Facebook’s proposed digital currency, Libra, “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.” The press conference comes days

An employee rings up a customer’s merchandise at The Container Store in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images There’s a group of stocks that tend to rise or fall dramatically following their earnings report. Bespoke Investment Group analyzed the most volatile names on earnings, looking at companies that have been publicly traded for at

A man cleans a PW1000G geared turbofan engine developed by MTU Aero Engines AG and Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp., at the Singapore Airshow held at the Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore. Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 27,000 for the first time ever

The stock market has been hitting all kinds of records this week, and Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel told CNBC on Friday that he does not see that stopping anytime soon. “I think fair market value does give us another 5% or 6% this year” on the S&P 500 with the Federal Reserve signalling interest

The US flag flies over shipping cranes and containers in Long Beach, California on March 4, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images This upcoming earnings season is shaping up to be a weak one. Because of uncertainty around trade wars and global growth, a bulk of U.S. companies are lowering the bar for

Visa Inc. credit and debit cards are arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, April 22, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The S&P 500 tops 3,000. What a difference five years makes. The S&P has moved 50% in less than 5 years, from 2,000 on August 26, 2014, to

If you’ve been wanting to own shares in the latest generation of space companies, now is your first chance. Social Capital Hedosophia, the investment vehicle of venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, is merging with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic in a deal that will open the space tourism company to public investors later this year. Social Capital

People exit Deutsche Bank’s Manhattan headquarters with white envelopes that are reportedly their exit papers following news that the global banking giant will be letting go of thousands of employees due to a major restructuring at the German bank on July 08, 2019 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The scene was

The logo for the Vanguard Group is shown on correspondence in Zelienople, Pa. Keith Srakocic | AP Vanguard, the non-profit financial giant that single-handedly revolutionized the investment management world, reportedly wants to join the private equity party train. Is this another market that it intends to overhaul by passively managing and micro-pricing index fund offerings

The outlook for Chinese stocks may be risky given the uncertain state of U.S.-China trade relations. But Lewis Kaufman, a portfolio manager at Artisan Partners, thinks investors should buy them anyway. “Regardless of what ultimately happens with the China trade tensions, there is a robustness to China that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the emerging