A Pandora Bracelet at the PANDORA Concept Store.Franziska Krug | German Select | Getty ImagesU.S. shoppers are continuing to splurge on jewelry, even as economic headwinds weigh on consumer sentiment in Europe and China.Danish jewelry brand Pandora said the U.S. market, which accounts for one-third of its overall revenues, remained an outlier amid weaker global sales.”The U.S. continues to buck the trend,” Pandora CEO Alexander Lacik told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Friday.”A strong U.S. consumer continues to be interested in Pandora, and, as I said, Europe is a bit of a mixed bag,” he went on, noting the European…
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Iraq was plunged into a nationwide blackout earlier this week, as a temperature surge to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50° Celsius) — and subsequent spiking demand for electricity — pushed the country’s faltering power grid to the breaking point. Power was restored a day later, government officials said Tuesday. For a country that has seen as much conflict and instability as Iraq, this could come as unsurprising – except for the fact that the nation is OPEC’s second-largest oil producer and has the world’s fifth-largest proven oil reserves. Scores of international energy companies have facilities in the Middle Eastern country, and billions…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Target — The retailer fell almost 2% after Bank of America downgraded Target to underperform from neutral and trimmed its price target on the stock. Target’s long-term outlook is deteriorating as the company falls further behind its peers, the bank said. Ulta Beauty and Target also agreed to end their partnership . UnitedHealth — The health insurer rallied 11% premarket. The advance came after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a stake of five million shares, worth about $1.6 billion. The “Big Short” investor Michael Burry and Appaloosa Management’s David Tepper also…
Here are Friday’s biggest calls on Wall Street. Morgan Stanley reiterates Apple as overweight Morgan Stanley says Apple shares appear to be “turning a corner.” “We are turning more bullish – forward iPhone unit/revenue growth expectations are still relatively muted, many of the same factors that got us bullish last July remain, we’re past peak tariff risk…” Morgan Stanley reiterates Nvidia as overweight The firm said Nvidia’s Rubin chip is on track and that investors should remain calm. “The chips and their system design should be finalized next March, with the chip entering mass production in 2Q26, followed by server…
President Donald Trump’s short list to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair has turned into a long list of nearly a dozen possible candidates.Among them are current and former Fed officials, prominent economists and a couple market-focused hopefuls, each with ideas about where the central bank should be headed at a critical juncture for monetary policy.For most of them, the views coalesce around a need to lower the Fed’s benchmark interest rate, and some believe the changes must go beyond that and into the fundamental way it does business.In CNBC interviews that stretch back days, weeks and even months,…
Target could have a rough road ahead, according to Bank of America. BofA downgraded the retailer stock to underperform from neutral on Friday and trimmed its price target to $93 per share from $105. The firm’s forecast now implies more than 10% downside from Thursday’s $105.25 close. Analyst Robert Ohmes said that Target’s long-term outlook is collapsing as the company falls further behind its peers. TGT YTD mountain Target stock in 2025. “TGT is now underperforming WMT on a comp sales CAGR vs. 2019 and TGT’s digital trends look very challenged, with mobile app monthly active users (MAUs) -4.1% y/y…
People move through a crowded JFK International Airport days before the 4th of July holiday on July 02, 2024 in New York City. As the summer travel season takes off, millions of Americans and tourists are experiencing long delays and congestion at airports, train stations and on highways. July is the busiest month of travel in the U.S.Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMaking money in the summer is not as easy as it used to be for airlines.Airlines have drawn down their schedules in August for a variety of reasons. Some travelers are opting to fly earlier,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his campaign headquarters in Moscow on March 18, 2024. Natalia Kolesnikova | Afp | Getty ImagesRussian media outlets were in high spirits on Friday as Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin headed to meet U.S. President Donald Trump for an Alaskan summit widely presented as a win for Moscow, its economy and global standing.Articles and commentary were splashed across Russian state news sites on Friday reveling in the global attention that Putin’s historic trip to the U.S. was garnering, with positive takes on what the high-stakes talks — centered on ending the war in…
A cargo ship full of shipping containers departs the port of Oakland at the San Francisco Bay, California, U.S., August 4, 2025. Carlos Barria | CbWith both the producer price index and the consumer price index still showing accelerations, consumers may be wondering why the price of goods across the board isn’t increasing more.But logistics experts are warning that those higher prices are currently hiding in “the middle mile,” otherwise known as warehouses and distribution centers, and are yet to come.The Trump administration’s back-and-forth on tariffs has had U.S. importers scrambling to pull forward their freight to mitigate those rates,…
A program that lets Americans save time in airport security lines is opening to foreign travelers from four countries.Clear, a NYSE-listed identity company, announced Friday that travelers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can apply for Clear+ memberships.More countries will likely be announced later this year, the company said.Clear+ members have their identities verified in via separate lanes at 59 U.S. airports. Verifications are performed using eye, finger or facial biometrics, rather than manual analysis.Candy Buchanan, a Clear+ member based in California, said the lanes are shorter and her identity is verified “within seconds.”Travelers can enroll themselves…
