President Donald Trump speaks before signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on September 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump raised the fee for an H-1B visa to $100,000 on Friday, leaving companies scrambling to respond.With many left wondering whether their careers will remain in tact, here’s a breakdown of the new H-1B fees:What did Trump change?As of Sunday, H-1B visa applications will require a $100,000 payment. Previously, visa fees ranged from $2,000 to $5,000 per application, depending on the size of the company.Employers now must have documentation of the payment…
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[The stream is slated to start at Noon ET. CNBC Television will start the stream when the event begins. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above.]New Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran speaks Monday to the Economic Club of New York to explain his views on the economy and monetary policy.The appearance comes less than a week after Miran voiced the lone dissent from the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision to lower its key overnight borrowing rate by a quarter percentage point. Instead, Miran favored a half-point reduction.Miran was confirmed last Tuesday, after President Donald Trump…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading : Better Home & Finance Holding — The mortgage lender briefly soared as much as 176% Monday after hedge fund manager Eric Jackson in a social media post on X called Better Home “the Shopify of mortgages” and said the company is rebuilding a $15 trillion industry from scratch using artificial intelligence. Oracle — The software company’s stock rose nearly 5% after it named Clay Magouyrk, president of Oracle’s cloud infrastructure business, and Mike Sicilia, preside of Oracle Industries, as chief executive officers . The pair replace Safra Catz, who will…
(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — “There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain once apocryphally said. “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.” Lying with statistics, or, at least, misleading or persuading with them, is a Wall Street specialty since the first trades went off beneath the Buttonwood tree. Here’s a recent example: we could easily make the case for or against the S & P 500 energy sector being a “good investment” based on when we choose to start the chart from.…
16 July 2025, China, Peking: Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, speaks to journalists. During a trip to China, Huang gave a speech at the opening of the supply chain trade fair and met Chinese politicians. Photo: Johannes Neudecker/dpa (Photo by Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance via Getty Images)Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesNvidia will invest $100 billion in OpenAI as the artificial intelligence lab sets out to build hundreds of billions of dollars in data centers based around the chipmaker’s AI processors, the companies said on Monday.OpenAI plans to build and deploy Nvidia systems that require 10 gigawatts of power,…
Apple CEO Tim Cook joins Apple employees at the Apple store as customers line up for the release of Apple new iPhone 17 models in New York on Sept. 19, 2025.Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesApple shares have rallied in the two days since the company released new iPhones, and the stock has now erased its losses for 2025.With Apple’s 4% gain on Monday, the stock is up a little over 2% for the year. It’s the last of the tech megacaps to turn positive.On Friday, Apple released new iPhones, Apple Watch, and AirPods models on Friday. The new…
Stephen Miran, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, following a television interview outside the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLess than a week after taking his seat, Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran on Monday outlined the reasons why he thinks the central bank’s benchmark interest rate is far too high and should be lowered aggressively.Changes in tax and immigration policy along with easing rental costs, deregulation and incoming revenue for tariffs are creating a different economic landscape that allow the Fed to cut its benchmark rate by…
(PRO Views are exclusive to PRO subscribers, giving them insight on the news of the day direct from a real investing pro. See the full discussion above.) The conventional wisdom believes Friday’s PCE inflation report will have the biggest market impact, but NYSE insider Jay Woods believes the weekly jobless claims data Thursday is the more important one for markets. Woods, chief market strategist at Freedom Capital markets, believes a spike in jobless claims could move the market more because that will mean “the Fed has more work to do because unemployment is going higher.” He also notes the PCE…
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPfizer on Monday said it would buy weight loss drugmaker Metsera in an up to $7.3 billion deal, including future payments, as it scrambles to win a slice in the booming obesity drug market. Pfizer said it will pay an initial $47.50 a share in cash for Metsera, a nearly 43% premium to the biotech company’s Friday’s closing price of $33.32. That gives the deal an enterprise value of $4.9 billion. The pact also includes a contingent value right worth up to $22.50 a share based on potential clinical and regulatory achievements for…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says that a deal is reached between the U.S. and China where TikTok’s algorithm and data are controlled by America and are majority-owned by Americans in the United States. Mike Campbell | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesA preliminary deal to keep TikTok alive in the United States will not involve the federal government taking an equity stake or a “golden share” in the social media company, a senior White House official said Monday.The official confirmed that the deal will base the popular video app’s U.S. operations in the states as part of a new joint…
