People crossing the street in Shibuya, Tokyo. Maydays | Moment | Getty Images Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index pared gains to fall 0.59% Friday, after the Bank of Japan kept its policy rate steady at 0.5%, in line with the forecast from a Reuters poll of economists. The benchmark index had hit a fresh record…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s commitment to America’s so-called “special relationship” with the U.K. this week helped fuel a record $200 billion package of investments into Britain. Trump’s historic two-day state visit to the country ended Thursday, after the president enjoyed a banquet at Windsor Castle with the royal family and talks with Prime Minister Keir…
Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper thinks the verdict following the latest Federal Reserve decision is this: Don’t fight the Fed. “I don’t love the multiples, but how do I not own it?” the Appaloosa Management founder said Thursday on CNBC’s ” Squawk Box ” when talking about the stock market. “I’m not ever fighting this…
JPMorgan sees nearly 50% upside ahead for the stock market if investor allocations return to the levels seen at the peak of the dotcom bubble in early 2000. While retail participation has increased in recent years, overall equity allocation of nonbank investors is at the same level as in 2007 and “significantly” below the 54.6%…
Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching on Thursday and what’s on the radar for Friday’s session. The small caps new record…
The Federal Reserve found plenty of unity this week to push through a quarter percentage point interest rate reduction, a decision that nonetheless masked substantial divisions among officials over what’s ahead. Countering Wall Street expectations for multiple dissents, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted 11 to 1 in favor of the reduction….
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…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company’s $5 billion investment and technology collaboration with Intel comes after the two companies held discussions for nearly a year. Huang said that he communicated personally…
The following passage was part of Jim Cramer’s prepared introduction to Thursday’s monthly meeting of the CNBC Investing Club. September’s been an unusually benign month. We have not had the kind of turmoil we have become used to with President Donald Trump . We’re having a nice European respite so far, with Trump overseas. How…
The stock market hit record high after record high over the past month as Wall Street anticipated a Federal Reserve interest rate cut that finally came. Investors got answers Wednesday afternoon, a day before our September Monthly Meeting, which will be livestreamed at noon ET . The Fed announced a quarter percentage point reduction —…