U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and U.S. President Donald Trump.Elizabeth Frantz | Nathan Howard | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump will visit the Federal Reserve on Thursday, the White House said, escalating his pressure campaign against Chairman Jerome Powell. This is the first time in nearly two decades that an American president has made an official trip to the central bank. American presidents have traditionally respected the independence of the central bank, which is insulated both in law and in practice from the political whims of elected officials.Trump’s visit is a remarkable symbolic move on that independence, bringing his drumbeat of…
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Lan Ho, founder and CEO of Fat Miilk.Courtesy of Lan HoLan Ho was working as a retail pharmacist at Walgreens earning about $120,000 a year, before she decided to quit her job to start a coffee company.Getting the pharmacist role was no easy feat. She had gone through a decade of higher education, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Lindenwood University, her master’s degree in finance from Harvard University and her doctorate degree in pharmacy from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy.Despite everything she had already invested, Ho said she felt miserable working as a retail pharmacist. One…
A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing automatic birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing automatic birthright citizenship is unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement nationwide.The 2-1 decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marked the first time an appeals court has assessed the legality of Trump’s order since the U.S. Supreme Court in June curbed the power of lower court judges to enjoin that and other federal policies on a nationwide basis.The Supreme Court’s June 27 ruling in litigation over Trump’s birthright citizenship order limited the ability of judges to issue so-called universal injunctions and directed lower courts that had blocked the Republican president’s policy…
An Android character is displayed in front of a building on the Google headquarters campus on July 23, 2025 in Mountain View, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Investors can have a reputation of being penny pinchers. For one, they tend to push up share prices on layoff announcements because of the associated cost savings. Accordingly, when a company reports slow revenue growth or an increase in spending, it’s more often than not punished in the stock market.After the bell on Wednesday, Alphabet said it would be spending $85 billion on infrastructure as it expands its artificial intelligence strategy this…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailFast MoneyCNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos joins ‘Fast Money’ to talk the latest out of Alphabet’s earnings call and what is driving the stock higher in overtime.04:424 hours agoMacKenzie Sigalos Source link
Chinese yuan appreciates to strongest level against greenback since November 2024 The Chinese offshore yuan appreciated to 7.1444 against the dollar, marking the strongest level since November 2024, data from LSEG showed.Similarly, the Thai baht appreciated to 32.07 per U.S. dollar, marking the strongest against the greenback since February 2022.— Lee Ying ShanJapan’s Topix hits record high as Asia-Pacific trading startsJapan’s broad-based Topix rose 1.2% to hit a record high in early Asia trading hours, data from LSEG showed.The benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.09%, extending gains from Wednesday following the announcement of Japan’s trade deal with the U.S.South Korea’s Kospi rose…
Deepwater’s Gene Munster joins ‘Fast Money’ to talk Alphabet and Tesla quarterly results. Source link
According to CNBC’s Jim Cramer, this market is hard to pin down. On Wednesday he described a fraught environment, highlighting both positive and negative themes that are driving the action.”It’s mixed. Some good, some bad…When it gets all good, it will be too good. When it gets all bad, it’ll be too bad,” he said. “Maybe right now it’s just right — and we should be skeptical, but not cynical, because there’s too much money being made, and I don’t want you to leave the table.”Cramer mentioned President Donald Trump’s trade deal with Japan. Trump announced Tuesday that he would…
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesGoogle is going to spend $10 billion more this year than it previously expected due to the growing demand for cloud services, which has created a backlog, executives said Wednesday.As part of its second quarter earnings, the company increased its forecast for capital expenditures in 2025 to $85 billion due to “strong and growing demand for our Cloud products and services” as it continues to expand infrastructure to power more AI services that use its cloud technology.…
The S&P 500 climbed to a fresh record close — its 12th of 2025 — as traders hoped for trade deals. Here’s what’s on CNBC’s radar going into Thursday. Source link
