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Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and US President Donald Trump attend their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump has the upper hand in the China trade war because tariffs are hurting the Chinese economy way more

The state of Michigan has pulled $600 million of its pension fund from wealth management company Fisher Investments after the company’s founder and CEO Ken Fisher made sexist comments at a summit in San Francisco this week. At the Tiburon conference, Fisher compared his wealth management strategy to picking up women for sex, made explicit

President Donald Trump speaks after announcing and initial deal with China while meeting the special Envoy and Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China Liu He at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on October 11, 2019. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images After a partial trade deal, what’s

Fidelity Investments has joined its rivals by offering zero-commission online trades, but it’s trying to differentiate itself by not selling the right to execute trades to third-party firms, brokerage executive Kathleen Murphy told CNBC on Friday. “We do not take payment-for-order-flow on equity orders,” said Murphy, president of Fidelity’s personal investing business. “Many competitors do

President Donald Trump meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters A slimmed-down trade deal, stalled talks and a “fluid” situation are just some of the conflicting reports that have surfaced this week as the

CNBC’s Jim Cramer is warning against trading stocks on the roller coaster of U.S.-China headlines as the two countries restarted high-level talks aimed at ending their 15-month-old trade war on Thursday. Markets are “hostage to events that are not only totally out of our hands, but I think totally out of the president’s hands,” Cramer

Tanya Baker is the Global Head of GS Accelerate. Source: Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs, famed adviser to Silicon Valley for decades, is turning to what it considers fertile ground for the next billion dollar business: its own employees. Earlier this year, 500 teams of workers pitched the bank on potential start-ups, according to Tanya Baker,

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images It might be time to buy into small-cap stocks even though they are lagging their large-cap counterparts, some strategists say. The Russell 2000 — which tracks small-cap stocks — has dropped more

Getty Images Investors, business owners and consumers should be heeding the message that the inverted yield curve is sending, according to the researcher who pioneered the economic forecasting model. Duke University professor Campbell Harvey said people shouldn’t wait for the economic downturn he anticipates before taking preventive measures. “This is the time where you need

There’s a correlation between recent weakness in the stock market — led by certain sectors — and Elizabeth Warren’s surge in the polls, according to some analysts and strategists on Wall Street. One banking analyst, Oppenheimer’s Chris Kotowski, went so far as to title his latest research note “The Warren Correction,” where he pointed out

Getty Images Investing legend Charles Schwab, founder and chairman of his namesake brokerage firm, said he would stay away from money-losing companies going public. “I would never buy a company like that that has huge losses and no sight ahead of you [about] how you are going to make money,” Schwab said in an interview

Charles Schwab, chairman of Charles Schwab Corp., speaks in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. Charles Schwab said the broker’s latest move to zero commissions was a long-time goal to deliver to investors.  “It was sort

For months now, we’ve been repeating the refrain “the consumer is strong, the consumer represents two thirds of GDP, the consumer will keep the economy growing” until it is the last thing we utter at night and the first words out of our mouth in the morning. The stock market has been a believer. As

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during a hearing “Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and Filtering Practices” on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, on Dec. 11, 2018. Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images FANG became FANG out of

The inside of one of Five Below’s existing locations. Five Below Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: William Blair initiated Five Below as ‘outperform’ William Blair initiated Five Below and said it thinks the discount retailer offers a “fun, differentiated” shopping experience for kids, teens, and their parents. “The stores feature

Traders and financial professionals work at the opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 6, 2019. Drew Angerer | Getty Images As volatility erupted everywhere amid fears of a recession, Goldman Sachs is advising clients to stick with stocks with stable earnings growth. The bank added a new

Employees use hand tools to assemble components of a LEAP jet engine at the General Electric Aviation plant in Lafayette, Indiana, July 19, 2019. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images The top analyst on General Electric sounded the alarm on Friday, in a warning to shareholders that one of the struggling conglomerate’s key businesses

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The market is in a slow melt-up mode on Friday. There was a volume spike at 11:30 a.m. as European markets closed and as the S&P 500 passed the earlier highs of the day at 10:00 a.m. ET, a

Netflix Co-founder, Chairman & CEO Reed Hastings attends a Q&A during a Transatlantic Forum in Lille, France. Sylvain Lefevre | Getty Images Netflix’s upcoming earnings results will show whether it’ll be able to compete with new rival platforms from Disney, Apple and others, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Investors will take special note

I came across this in my Instagram feed yesterday and I had two thoughts… The first thing is, awww man, I love Shark Tank. My kids do too. Why does this dude have to be doing this? And then I thought about how if a regulated investment company or advisor had posted this ad, it

Pedestrians walk outside an E*Trade Financial office in New York. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Retail brokerage firm E-Trade announced Wednesday it will drop commission fees on online U.S. stock, ETF and options trades. The move comes within a week of Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade all dropping their commission fees.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 14, 2019 Spencer Platt | Getty Images One of the market’s most important players is losing its mojo. Corporate America’s share buybacks, which hit a record of over $1 trillion in 2018 on the back of a tax overhaul, have begun to

Kathy Huff installs a headlight assembly at GM’s Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 25, 2018. John Gress | Reuters U.S. economic growth is expected to have slowed in the third quarter of 2019, according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDP tracking gauge. The GDPNow model estimates the

CNBC’s Jim Cramer is predicting that shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill could soar to $1,000 each, boosted by its tech initiatives, including partnering with third-party delivery services. “I think Chipotle can go to a thousand. It is a great stock here,” Cramer said Tuesday on “Squawk Box.” The fast-casual stock has nearly doubled in 2019,

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday called Wells Fargo‘s selection of veteran banking leader Charles Scharf as its new CEO a “brilliant move.” “This was a job that was offered to Charlie a while ago. And Charlie didn’t want to take it,” Cramer said. “But I think the opportunity was just too great, was my understanding.”

iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max Todd Haselton | CNBC J.P. Morgan raised its price target on Apple’s stock Monday, expecting the company’s shares will rise 21% as sales of its new line of iPhone are “stronger than muted expectations.” “We are modestly raising our iPhone volume forecasts and expect investor sentiment

China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. Nicholas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images U.S. consumers are getting increasingly anxious about the trade war with China despite a recent thaw in the tensions ahead of the trade

Randal Quarles, vice chairman of supervision at the Federal Reserve, at the NABE Economic Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S. on Feb. 26, 2018. Joshua Roberts Washington, D.C. — The U.S. economy is chugging along nicely even as worries over the country’s trade policy are hurting business investment, a top Federal Reserve official said Friday.

Charles Scharf Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Three decades before Charlie Scharf was named CEO of Wells Fargo, he got his start by mailing his resume to an up-and-coming banker named Jamie Dimon. Scharf was a senior at Johns Hopkins University when Dimon hired him at Baltimore lender Commercial Credit. That move proved

Recent highly publicized flops by supposedly disruptive companies could be painting an unpleasant picture ahead for innovation, at least in how it’s viewed in the financial markets. Investors have turned thumbs-down on high-profile companies including WeWork, Uber and Tesla. Industries including marijuana, vaping and bitcoin all have seen big price drops following a spate of