The White House on Monday downplayed the weeks long stock market sell-off, insisting that recent moves by business leaders suggest a brighter outlook for the U.S. economy. “We’re seeing a strong divergence between animal spirits of the stock market and what we’re actually seeing unfold from businesses and business leaders,” a White House official told…
Our president, Donald Trump , tells us that “what we are doing is big,” so there might be economic consequences to come that we don’t like. But he can’t change the plan, whatever the heck the plan is. Our Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, comes on CNBC and tells us that the economy has to detox…
My top 10 things to watch Tuesday, March 4 1. Tariffs lower the price we will pay for stocks. Remember, we are now in the era of “Every Day Lower Prices,” call it the Walmart-White House. This is from a president who used the market to measure success. 2. Wall Street was under pressure again…
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | Afp | Getty Images “Tariffs” may be the most beautiful word in the dictionary for U.S. President Donald Trump, but it is one that stokes fear in investors. Risk-on assets such as…
We struggle not to interject politics into our stock selection because we know it rarely, if ever, produces ideas that work. I know it makes the job a lot harder. But you don’t pay me to feel badly about what’s happening. That’s not worth much, even as I do feel sad about the recent turn…
Nvidia’s latest quarterly results could signal a boost for other stocks in the artificial intelligence space. The company reported fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter revenue growth of 78% from the year-earlier period. Its guidance for the current quarter was also ahead of analyst expectations. That comes a month after the stock plummeted nearly 17% on worries that…
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. New heights The S&P 500 rose 0.24% Tuesday to close at a new record high of 6,129.58. The index also notched a new intraday all-time high, climbing to 6,129.63 when the stock rally picked up its pace just before the…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 13, 2025. Danielle DeVries | CNBC U.S. President Donald Trump’s whirlwind blitz through the bureaucracy, economic policy and geopolitical affairs isn’t ending. As top U.S. officials meet their Russian counterparts for high-level talks, Trump suggested to reporters that Ukraine was somehow responsible…
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10 things to watch Thursday, Jan. 16 1. The S & P 500 was looking at a muted open Thursday, the morning after its best gain since the election. The 10-year Treasury yield was slightly higher after falling Wednesday in response to a cooler-than-expected consumer inflation report. December retail sales, released before Thursday’s opening bell,…