The reason why Treasury yields are rising isn’t complicated — it’s because investors are demanding more compensation for the risk they are taking when buying government debt. However, it’s the reason behind those demands that tells the story, and whether the surge is likely to continue. From a market standpoint, the burst higher in Treasury yields can be told through the “term premium.” That’s a measure, albeit inexact, of how much extra yield investors are demanding for holding long-term what is largely considered the safest debt instrument in the world. The term premium had fallen to just 3.5 basis points…
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Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.Chesnot | Getty ImagesAnthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced Tuesday that it’s reached an artificial intelligence milestone for the company: AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks like a human would.Anthropic is the company behind Claude — one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has exploded in popularity. Startups like Anthropic, alongside tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta, are all part of a generative AI arms race to ensure they don’t fall behind in a market predicted to top $1…
Jeff Smith, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Starboard Value LP.Chris Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSalesforce shares jumped 98% in 2023 in part after the business software maker increased its adjusted operating margin after Starboard Value and other activist investors raised concerns about the company’s financial performance. Starboard now sees more room for improvement.”They’ve been doing a great job executing, improving their margins, moving up in the Rule of 40 or Rule of 50 for their for their industry, and we think there’s a lot more to go,” Starboard CEO Jeff Smith told CNBC’s David Faber at…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Patrick Mahomes is the NFL’s most talented quarterback — and he needs help. Desperately. Emphatically. Immediately.As the Kansas City Chiefs seek to become the first team to win three straight Super Bowls, the only option is to make a trade.Although the league’s trade deadline is on Election Day, Nov. 5 at 3 p.m. CT, the Chiefs’ top leaders — club owner Clark Hunt, coach Andy Reid and general manager Brett Veach — need to make a move well ahead of the deadline, maybe by the time you’re reading this.Yes, the Chiefs are the league’s lone undefeated…
Bernstein is bullish on Costco due to its overlooked focus on international growth. Analyst Zhihan Ma initiated coverage with an outperform rating on the Washington-based company. Ma set a $1,016 price target, which implies shares can add 14.6% over Monday’s close. “Despite its expensive valuation, we believe its international growth potential is underappreciated, which can support consistent earnings growth for decades to come,” Ma told clients in a Monday note, in which she also called Costco the “highest quality company in our coverage.” Costco trades at nearly 50 times forward earnings, according to FactSet. That is well above the S…
Much of the world has managed to successfully lower inflation and engineer an economic soft landing, avoiding recession, but faces rising geopolitical risks and weaker long-term growth prospects, according to the International Monetary Fund. Global headline inflation will fall to 3.5% on an annual basis by the end of 2025, from an average 5.8% in 2024, the agency said in its World Economic Outlook released Tuesday. Inflation peaked at a year-over-year rate of 9.4% in the third quarter of 2022. The year-end 2025 rate is slightly below the average annual rise in prices in the two decades before the Covid-19 pandemic. “The…
SAN FRANCISCO — Paul George’s rookie season overlapped with the final of Mike Dunleavy Jr.’s five seasons as a player with the Indiana Pacers. Dunleavy was, as Draymond Green referred to it, George’s initial “vet,” generating a relationship that proved beneficial for the Golden State Warriors this June.Dunleavy — now the Warriors general manager — “led the charge” on the George recruitment, according to Stephen Curry. He hatched the idea and handled all the logistics to get George, Curry, Green, Steve Kerr and other necessary power players together in Los Angeles to pitch George on coming to San Francisco.“He was…
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones said Tuesday he is long gold and bitcoin as he expects that the path forward will be inflationary regardless of who lands in the White House — though he has started positioning for a Trump victory. “I think all roads lead to inflation,” Jones told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday. “I’m long gold. I’m long Bitcoin. I think commodities are so ridiculously under-owned, so I’m long commodities. I think most young people find their inflation hedges via the Nasdaq, that’s also been great.” The founder of Tudor Investment and Robin Hood Foundation said…
Rockaa | E+ | Getty ImagesFederal tax brackets for 2025Federal income tax brackets show how much you owe on each part of your “taxable income,” which you calculate by subtracting the greater of the standard or itemized deductions from your adjusted gross income.37% for individual single taxpayers with incomes greater than $626,350 ($751,600 for married couples filing jointly).35% for incomes over $250,525 ($501,050 for married couples filing jointly).32% for incomes over $197,300 ($394,600 for married couples filing jointly).24% for incomes over $103,350 ($206,700 for married couples filing jointly).22% for incomes over $48,475 ($96,950 for married couples filing jointly).12% for incomes…
Ryan Bergh, a machinist at Boeing’s factory in Everett, Washington for 10 years, cheers during a strike rally for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) at the Seattle Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, on October 15, 2024. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty ImagesBoeing has already braced investors for a rough quarterly report. Now, new CEO Kelly Ortberg has the chance to share his vision for the troubled manufacturer, from a potential strike-ending labor agreement to a slimmed-down future.When he takes the mic for his…
