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Investors should be wary when it comes to trusting China over President Donald Trump, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “I’m aghast we trust the People’s Republic of China more than we trust the White House,” Cramer said on “Squawk Box.” “The predominance of coverage this morning is that the President is lying. I’m not willing

Apple CEO Tim Cook visits an Apple store in Shanghai, China. Aly Song | Reuters Apple’s stock is helping lead U.S. stocks higher on Monday, buoyed by the possibility of re-opened trade negotiations with China, but a couple of Wall Street firms say the technology giant is better positioned than some might think even if

Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump speaks at the Saint Andelm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester, New Hampshire June 13, 2016. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images The White House is reportedly discussing a variety of options to try to juice U.S. economic growth ahead of the 2020 election, including

People walk by a Nike store in New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Seaport Global initiated KB Home, D.R. Horton, Lennar, and PulteGroup as ‘buy’ Seaport said that despite it being a “volatile” group, the firm had a “generally positive” view of the homebuilders.

In this photo illustration, a visual representation of a cryptocurrency sits on display in front of a Facebook logo. Chesnot | Getty Images Some original investors in Facebook’s digital currency project are considering leaving, the Financial Times reported Friday. Two Libra founders told the Financial Times they were worried about the regulatory spotlight that the

Customers try iPhones at the Apple store in Hong Kong, China. Stringer | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Multinationals that rely on the supply chain from China are tumbling after President Donald Trump ordered them to find alternatives to their Chinese operations. Shares of Apple, Nike and Caterpillar all tanked more than 3.5%, hitting their

International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath speaks during a press conference in Washington D.C., on April 9, 2019. Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images The outlook for the global economy keeps getting bleaker, the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund said Friday. “As the year is progressing, it’s getting harder

Chinese shipping containers are stored beside a US flag after they were unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. – Global markets remain on red alert over a trade war between the two superpowers China and the US, that most observers warn could shatter global economic growth,

A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, on Aug. 5, 2019. U.S. stocks plunged on Monday as investors worry that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened new tariffs on Chinese imports will worsen trade prospects. The Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 767.27 points, or 2.90 percent, to 25,717.74.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Arturo Estrella, the economist who first discovered the predictive power of the yield curve, has a message for recession naysayers: It could hit sooner than you think. “It’s been 50 years and 7 recessions with a perfect record,” Estrella told

Harriet Taylor | CNBC J.P. Morgan Chase customers will no longer be able to pay with their phones in stores beginning next year. The bank said it plans to shut down its Chase Pay app in early 2020. The mobile payment app was launched in 2015 just as Apple Pay was gaining popularity. “The change

Federal Reserve officials who voted to lower interest rates three weeks ago agreed that the move shouldn’t be viewed as an indication that there is a “pre-set course” for future cuts, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. The summary indicated that policymakers viewed the move as a “mid-cycle adjustment,” an expression Chairman Jerome Powell used

With the official launch of the Apple Card, Goldman Sachs is embarking on a multi-decade journey to becoming a leader in consumer banking just as it has been in Wall Street banking and trading, CEO David Solomon said. “Apple Card is big, but it’s also a beginning,” Solomon said Tuesday in an internal memo obtained

A City Carrier Assistant to the United States Postal Service, unloads her mail truck after collecting mail on the busiest mailing day of the year for the U.S. Postal Service in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images As investors look for reliable income streams in a world of falling bond yields, Bank of America

Jim Cramer Scott Mlyn | CNBC Investors should be careful not to buy or sell stocks based on last week’s brief inversion of the yield curve in the bond market, CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned on Monday. Cramer was skeptical about buying the Dow Jones Industrial Average‘s 300-point advance at the open on Wall Street, which

Former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt on Monday questioned the motivation of Harry Markopolos, the Bernie Madoff whistleblower who unveiled a long list of allegations against General Electric last week in an investigation for a short seller. “One of the ways you can test Markopolos’ bonafides, however, is the fact that the SEC has a whistleblower

The General Electric Co. logo is seen on the company’s corporate headquarters building in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. July 23, 2019 Alwyn Scott | Reuters Enron whistleblower Harry Markopolos released a report on General Electric on Thursday alleging the company is hiding financial problems. Before the report was made public, GE said, in a statement, “we

Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, speaking at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2019. Adam Galica | CNBC Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio said he wouldn’t rule out China using its Treasury holdings to gain an upper hand against the U.S. in the trade war — a view that contrasts

A visitor at Intel’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day walks past a signboard during the event in Bangalore, India Manjunath Kiran | Getty Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Bank of America downgraded Dow Inc. to ‘underperform’ from ‘neutral’ Bank of America said it downgraded the chemical company due to global demand

General Electric bounced back Friday after the CEO shored up confidence by purchasing a bulk of company shares, and analysts defended the industrial giant. GE’s stock was up more than 6% on Friday morning following its biggest drop since April 2008 a day earlier. GE shares had tanked 11% on Thursday. The stock began its

The allegations by Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos of a $38 billion fraud at General Electric are “at best disingenuous” and “at worst highly inaccurate,” according to Nick Heymann, co-group head of global industrial infrastructure at the William Blair financial services firm. “You got the stock on sale yesterday for absolutely no basis. This is why

President Donald Trump held a conference call with the CEOs of the three biggest U.S. banks as the stock market plunged Wednesday. Trump held the call with J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Bank of America‘s Brian Moynihan and Citigroup‘s Michael Corbat, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The Dow plunged 800 points, or 3%, in

Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh (L) and CFO Harmit Singh (R) pose ahead of the company’s IPO outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 21, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday: Bank of America upgraded Levi Strauss & Co.

Pedestrians pass in front of the New York Stock Exchange, May 24, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Volatility is back on Wall Street. The average daily point range of the Dow Jones Industrial Average so far this month is about 482 points, which is more than double the average daily range from

Warren Buffett Bloomberg | Getty Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been loading up on shares of Amazon. Berkshire upped its stake in the e-commerce giant by 11%, the Omaha, Nebraska-based holding company revealed in a government filing Wednesday. Berkshire now owns 537,300 shares of Amazon, worth $947 million. The holdings are as of the end

A star fund manager at Franklin Templeton lost $1.8 billion on Monday due to the market slide in Argentina, according to the Financial Times. Michael Hasenstab, a fixed-income fund manager, had several large positions in the Argentina bond market. The financial markets in the country plunged after a surprise result in primary elections. President Mauricio

Charlotte Flair (L) and Bayley fight during to the WWE Live Duesseldorf event at ISS Dome on February 22, 2017 in Duesseldorf, Germany. Lukas Schulze | Bongarts | Getty Images World Wrestling Entertainment has several upcoming events that should catapult its stock upward, according to Guggenheim. The firm named WWE its best idea into the

Alan Greenspan Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said nothing is stopping the U.S. from getting sucked into the global trend of negative yielding debt, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. “There is international arbitrage going on in the bond market that is helping drive long-term Treasury yields lower,” Greenspan said in a phone

Farmers hand pick sweet corn on in Olathe, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson | The Denver Post | Getty Images The U.S. corn harvest will be bigger than previously forecast, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday, as the government issued a surprise boost to its yield estimate despite ongoing concerns in the country about a

Panoramic Images | Getty Images Many global investors are turning toward Silicon Valley instead of Wall Street in search of returns. The total invested in private markets hit all-time highs last year and continues to break multi-decade records this year. In the first half of the year, total investments in venture capital hit a 19-year