Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has tried and failed three times to become president. Now, even as her popularity rises, she may be barred from taking part in an election to lead France if she is found guilty of embezzlement on Monday.Such a verdict, far from certain, has been equated by Ms. Le Pen with a “political death” sentence and a “very violent attack on the will of the people.” It would ignite a major political storm at a time when the French Fifth Republic has appeared increasingly dysfunctional.On the one hand stands the principle, as Nicolas Barret,…
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From America’s largest bank to its biggest asset manager, Wall Street investment strategies once reserved for private banking clients are increasingly being offered to Main Street investors.In the midst of a market correction and ongoing uncertainty about the outlook for U.S. stocks and the global economy, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock are among major players in the ETF space making bets that private strategies will continue to see greater adoption. That includes private credit as a mainstream bond portfolio holding, as well as equity income strategies that involved more complicated trading than traditional dividend equity funds.”Across our business we are looking…
The top-performing U.S. stock in Berkshire Hathaway ‘s enormous equity portfolio this year turns out to be a lesser-known name in the internet world. VeriSign , which provides a dotcom domain registry service, has seen its shares climb more than 21% this year and more than 32% over the past 12 months. The Reston, Virginia-based company recently reported a rise in fourth-quarter revenue, boosted by solid demand for domain registrations. Berkshire first bought VeriSign stock in the fourth quarter of 2012, shortly after Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett hired Ted Weschler as his investing lieutenant. The conglomerate left the size of the…
U.S. President Donald Trump walks before departing for Florida from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 28, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership, adding that the comments were “not going in the right location.”Agence France-Presse reported that Putin on Friday called for a transitional government to be put in place in Ukraine, which could effectively push out Zelenskyy.”If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine,…
Signage at 23andMe headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDNA testing has become a valuable tool for hobbyists and novice genealogists. For some, learning they are the 10th cousin of Paul Revere or the 15th great nephew four times removed of the last King of Prussia is worth the perceived risk of sharing a DNA sample. But what happens when the company harvesting the DNA goes bankrupt? That was the question posed to millions of Americans last week when 23andMe, the company that popularized consumer genetic testing and had early backing…
The beginning of 2025 was a difficult one for the Dow Jones Industrial Average , but analysts are more optimistic on certain stocks heading into the second quarter. The 30-stock Dow has tumbled more than 2% in the first quarter. Chip giant Nvidia has led the decline with its 18% fall, followed by losses from Nike and Apple of more than 16% and roughly 13%, respectively. The broader market has sold off in recent weeks due to increasing concerns that President Donald Trump’s tariffs on major U.S. trading partners could weaken economic growth and place upward pressure on inflation. With…
BEIJING — JPMorgan has called the bottom in the Chinese consumer slump, and the firm says now it’s time to buy. Chinese consumers have been reluctant to spend since the Covid-19 pandemic. Retail sales rose by just 3.5% last year , less than half the average of 9.7% in the years 2015 to 2019. But on March 26, JPMorgan’s China equity strategists upgraded consumer discretionary stocks to overweight from neutral. While tariffs and tensions with the U.S. may dent sentiment, the strategists expect Beijing may ramp up consumer stimulus following high-level policy calls to do so. In the meantime, “our…
Tariffs under the Trump administration have triggered concerns about the impact on demand and fears of a potential recession, roiling the stock market.Amid the ongoing volatility, the pullback in several stocks with strong fundamentals presents a lucrative opportunity to build a position. Top Wall Street analysts are spotting attractive names with robust long-term growth prospects — and they are trading at compelling levels.With that in mind, here are three stocks favored by the Street’s top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance.MicrosoftFirst on this week’s list is tech giant Microsoft (MSFT), which is considered…
Syrians on Sunday were digesting the overnight announcement of a caretaker government that will be in power for the next five years, accepting with some resignation the continued dominance of the rebel group that seized power in December but welcoming its representation of the country’s main ethnic minorities.The rebels who overthrew President Bashar al-Assad in December have since been acting as Syria’s de facto authorities, naming their leader, Ahmed al-Shara, interim president to oversee a transitional government.Mr. al-Shara announced the much anticipated new government late on Saturday night, swearing in 23 cabinet ministers in a ceremony that ran into the…
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, attends the inauguration of a new hub in France dedicated to the artificial intelligence sector, at the Google France headquarters in Paris, France, on Feb. 15, 2024.Gonzalo Fuentes | ReutersAfter Google scrapped its diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring aspirations in February, CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the matter with his employees at a company all-hands meeting. “We believe in building a representative workforce,” Pichai said, according to audio obtained by CNBC. “We’re a global company, we have users around the world, and we think the best way to serve them well is by…
