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A woman walks past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on January 12, 2021 in New York City. ANGELA WEISS | AFP | Getty Images U.S. stock futures rose in overnight trading on Sunday, pointing to a strong open on the first trading day of March. Dow futures rose 105 points. S&P

People wearing face masks crossing a street at Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district on Feb. 16, 2021. Zhang Wei | China News Service | Getty Images Hong Kong’s plan to increase the stamp duty on stock trading will not harm the competitiveness of the city’s financial markets, Financial Secretary Paul Chan told CNBC on Friday.

Warren Buffett Gerard Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett, the 90-year-old “Oracle of Omaha,” remains a firm believer in the American dream, saying in his closely watched annual shareholder letter to “never bet against America.” “In its brief 232 years of existence … there has been no incubator for unleashing human potential like America,” the chairman

Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A Covid relief bill backed by Democrats could trigger billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare and other federal programs, like ones that support unemployed workers and student-loan borrowers, if it’s ultimately passed. The funding cuts would take effect in 2022 and last for several years.

Icons for the Monzo and Starling banking apps on a smartphone. Adrian Dennis | AFP via Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. should reform listings rules and visa applications to help its £11 billion ($15.3 billion) fintech sector thrive after Brexit, a government-commissioned review said Friday. Britain is one of the leading players in fintech

Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson and others celebrate their IPO at the Nasdaq exchange, April 16, 2015. Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Etsy — Shares of the e-commerce company popped nearly 13% on Friday after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Etsy earned $1.08 per

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Foot Locker (FL) – Foot Locker shares tanked 12.1% in premarket trading after quarterly revenue came in below Street forecasts and comparable-store sales unexpectedly declined. The athletic apparel and footwear retailer also reported quarterly profit of $1.55 per share, beating consensus by 20

A staff member displays a burger with a Beyond Meat plant-based patty at VeggieWorld fair in Beijing, China November 8, 2019. Jason Lee | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Thursday: Beyond Meat – Beyond Meat shares rose as much as 14.7% in volatile trading on news that the plant-based

Brian Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive officer of Coinbase Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coinbase isn’t just enabling the trading of a bunch of bitcoin – it’s holding cryptocurrencies on its books. In the company’s prospectus for public market investors filed on Thursday, Coinbase disclosed ownership of $316.1 million worth of

More and more wealthy art collectors are cashing in on low interest rates to borrow against their Picassos and Basquiats, adding to risks of a leveraged boom and bust in the art market. The Fine Art Group, an art advisory and finance firm, said loan requests surged by 30% in 2020 compared with 2019 as

The Nasdaq’s slump may be just starting. Fundstrat Global Advisors’ Tom Lee sees a major market shift underway in which Big Tech starts to greatly underperform economically sensitive stocks. So, he’s telling investors to double down on epicenter trades, which are positioned to profit as the economy reopens. “A lot of these companies that were

A GameStop store is pictured in New York, January 29, 2021. Carlo AllegriI | Reuters Shares of GameStop surged more than 90% in afternoon trading on Wednesday as investors poured into the brick-and-mortar retailer amid a C-suite shake-up. GameStop announced Wednesday that its chief financial officer Jim Bell will resign on March 26. “Mr. Bell’s

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Lowe’s (LOW) – The home improvement retailer reported quarterly profit of $1.33 per share, 12 cents a share above estimates. Revenue also came in above analysts’ forecasts. Same-store sales jumped 28.1%, compared to the 22% predicted by analysts surveyed by FactSet. Lowe’s shares

Flags of U.S. and China are displayed at American International Chamber of Commerce (AICC)’s booth during China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing, China, May 28, 2019. Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — A recent U.S. strategy paper on China that’s widely read in Washington, D.C., has drawn only a passing response in

Workhorse W-15 Electric Pickup Truck. Source: Workhorse Shares of Workhorse Group dropped more than 50% at one point on Tuesday after the company was passed over for a key contract from the U.S. Postal Service. Amid heightened volatility, the stock was halted multiple times during the last half hour of trading, before ultimately finishing the

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Home Depot (HD) – The home improvement retailer beat quarterly estimates by 3 cents with earnings of $2.65 per share. Revenue came in above estimates as well. Comparable store sales jumped 24.5% during the fourth quarter, more than the 19.2% consensus estimate of analysts polled by FactSet. Home

HSBC building in the Canary Wharf district of London, U.K. Leon Neal | AFP | Getty Images HSBC is due to report financial results for 2020 on Tuesday, during which the bank is expected to update investors on its business restructuring plans and whether it would resume dividend payments. Like many of its peers globally,

Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Hedge funds are still licking their wounds after a retail trading frenzy forced the industry to slash its overall exposure to stocks, leading to an underperformance in 2021. Last month, an army of retail investors who coordinated on social media managed to push GameStop shares up 400% in

Zambato Mountain View Office Source: Zambato JPMorgan Chase is taking a stake in a private stock trading platform with links to Palantir to boost the bank’s efforts to connect buyers and sellers of hot pre-IPO company shares, CNBC has learned. The bank’s investment in Zanbato, a Mountain View, California based fintech start-up, is set to

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks at a news conference after restoring diplomatic ties with Kiribati on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S. September 27, 2019. Mark Kauzlarich | Reuters BEIJING — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday called on the new U.S. administration to stop the “suppression”

An activist wears a “Fight For $15” T-shirt at a news conference prior to a vote on the Raise the Wage Act, July 18, 2019 at the U.S. Capitol. Alex Wong | Getty Images A $15 minimum wage could become a reality in the U.S. While millions would get a pay boost from a higher

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Deere (DE) – The heavy equipment maker earned $3.87 per share for its fiscal first quarter, compared to a consensus estimate of $2.14 a share. Revenue also beat forecasts, and Deere increased its full-year earnings outlook amid improvements in the agricultural and construction

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin dismissed the idea that the firm improperly uses information it garners from its market-making operation as it comes under scrutiny from Congress about its role in the GameStop mania last month. “I think there’s been a number of misperceptions about the data we receive from the brokerage community. In fact, a

A worker repairs a power line in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2021. Thomas Ryan Allison | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which is known as ERCOT and controls the majority of the state’s power, said it plans to come out of emergency conditions on Friday as power

Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images Many Americans will get an unwelcome surprise this tax season: the realization they were victims of unemployment fraud. Millions of workers have collected jobless benefits during the Covid pandemic. They must pay taxes on that aid. But criminals have stolen identities en masse to collect benefits in others’ names, according

The logo of U.S. software company Palantir Technologies is seen in Davos, Switzerland Januar 22, 2020. Arnd Wiegmann | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Applied Materials — Shares of the chipmaker jumped more than 7% after Applied Materials beat estimates during the fourth quarter and issued upbeat comments for the

New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Friday that high prices for stocks and other assets are justified in light of a growing economy and low interest rate landscape. With stocks pushing to new heights on valuations not seen in decades, and as corporate bond yields plunge, the central bank official said he’s not

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: The New York Stock Exchange Stock futures inched higher in overnight trading on Thursday after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said a large Covid relief package is still needed for a full recovery in the U.S. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 20 points.

The second dose of Covid-19 vaccine is crucial in creating longer and complete immunity as well as preventing variants of the virus, according to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “We need to know that this is a two-dose vaccine, period,” Offit told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard

A worker wearing a protective mask arranges shopping carts outside a Walmart store in Duarte, California, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. David Swanson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Walmart — Shares of the big box retailer dropped more than 5% after disappointing quarterly earnings. Walmart