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Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), third right, strikes a gong as Paul Chan, Hong Kong’s financial secretary, second right, and Bonnie Chan, chief executive officer of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. (HKEX), right, applaud during the CATL listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesInvestors and businesses’ enthusiasm for Hong Kong’s equity capital markets is roaring back, as Chinese companies flocked to the city for fundraising, sparking a frenzy in the market that had been forsaken…

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As the first digital-native generation, Gen Z is exposed to global instability in a way that no other generation has been.Skynesher | E+ | Getty ImagesAs the first digital native generation, Gen Z is grappling with exposure to global instability in a way that no other generation has.”We were raised with war bleeding through our screens … we’ve seen more armed drones, missiles and mutilated children before 9 a.m. than any generation before us,” said 25-year-old neuroscience and AI researcher Amogh Mehrotra.Geopolitical turmoil has rocked the world in recent years, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, to the…

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday discussed a couple broad ideas that he thinks are driving market action, saying it’s important to understand trends and impactful current events.”You know why I first got into this whacky business? Stories, stories that’s why,” Cramer said. “Tremendous, intriguing stories, tales that could explain what’s going to happen — and you could actually make a little money from them. That’s what’s happening right now, and the stories are driving much of this action.”According to Cramer, Wall Street is at “an inflection point.” He said investors can focus on “minutiae,” like job losses in healthcare, moves…

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The Datadog stand is being displayed on day one of the AWS Summit Seoul 2024 at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea, on May 16, 2024.Chris Jung | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDatadog shares were up 10% in extended trading on Wednesday after S&P Global said the monitoring software provider will replace Juniper Networks in the S&P 500 U.S. stock index.S&P Global is making the change effective before the beginning of trading on July 9, according to a statement.Computer server maker Hewlett Packard Enterprise, also a constituent of the index, said earlier on Wednesday that it had…

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A hiring sign is displayed in a Dominos Pizza window on June 25, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesFor federal government workers who worked at agencies tied to this year’s job cuts, an apparent slowdown in the labor market is happening at the worst possible time.A gradual pullback in hiring and job openings has come at the same time that hundreds of thousands of federal workers are out looking for employment, the casualty of layoffs recommended by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.Although economists almost universally downplay it, one straw in the wind may have come Wednesday,…

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Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on July 2, 2025. NYSEU.S. stock futures were little changed on Wednesday night as traders braced for June’s big jobs report.S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures were fractionally higher. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 14 points, or less than 0.1%.Earlier in the day, the S&P 500 rose 0.47% to notch a record close. The broad market index also posted a fresh all-time intraday high. The Nasdaq Composite also rallied 0.94% to a record close. The 30-stock Dow trailed behind with a narrow loss of 0.02%.The moves followed…

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