Job growth proved better than expected in June, boosted by government hiring, as the labor market showed surprising resilience and likely took a July interest rate cut off the table. Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 147,000 for the month, higher than the estimate for 110,000 and just above the upwardly revised 144,000 in May,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. Mikhail Metzel | Evelyn Hockstein | Via Reuters President Donald Trump said he will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. The call, announced by Trump in a Truth Social post, comes two days after the U.S. said it would halt…
My top 10 things to watch Thursday, July 3 1. Wall Street is set for a higher open after better-than-expected June job creation. The S & P 500 closed at another record high yesterday as President Donald Trump announced a Vietnam trade deal. Investors are also watching House voting on the Trump-backed megabill of spending…
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Synopsys , Cadence Design Systems — Shares of the Silicon Valley chip designers rallied more than 5% and 6%, respectively. The U.S. government lifted restrictions on exporting chip-design software to China, according to announcements from companies in the industry. Datadog — The cloud monitoring provider surged…
Investors may find “boring” stocks a safer bet heading into the second half of the year, according to Jeff Kilburg, founder and CEO of KKM Financial. Markets were plagued by heightened volatility at the end of the first quarter and the start of the second, as fear and uncertainty stemming from President Donald Trump’s trade…
Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is using artificial intelligence not just as a tool, but as a creative partner in building her fashion-tech startup, Phia. From TikTok trends to viral Instagram videos, Phia’s content strategy is data-driven, AI-powered, and unapologetically Gen Z. Co-founded with Sophia Kianni while they were sophomores at Stanford,…
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with the media after the House Republican Conference meeting on a plan to fund the government and avert a shutdown in the U.S. Capitol on Friday, December 20, 2024. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Republican-controlled U.S. House on Thursday advanced U.S. President…
Vietnamese stocks hit highest in over three years Vietnamese stocks climbed to their highest in over three years after U.S. President Donald Trump said a trade deal with Vietnam has been struck. The benchmark Vietnam Index rose 0.3% to its highest since April 2022, data from LSEG showed. Top movers of the index stem from…
Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), third right, strikes a gong as Paul Chan, Hong Kong’s financial secretary, second right, and Bonnie Chan, chief executive officer of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. (HKEX), right, applaud during the CATL listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong…
The U.S. stock market will likely sell-off sharply if Thursday’s jobs report is anything like the weak private payrolls number from ADP, according to imagined outcomes from the JPMorgan trading desk. In a note on Wednesday, the JPM U.S. Market Intelligence team said the stock market is likely to move higher if the jobs report…