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The HSBC Holding logo is being displayed on a smartphone with HSBC visible in the background in this photo illustration taken in Brussels, Belgium, on February 20, 2024.  Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images HSBC beat market expectations in its first quarter earnings report on Tuesday, and announced the surprise departure of Group Chief

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 16, 2023. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters BEIJING — Local Chinese authorities have removed restrictions on Tesla cars

An animated avatar generated by the AI video platform Synthesia. Synthesia Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence firm Synthesia on Thursday unveiled a new wave of AI-generated digital avatars that can convey human emotions using a user’s text inputs. The company said its “Expressive Avatars” can blur the lines between the virtual world and real characters. It aims

Nio Founder and CEO William Li poses outside of the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate his company’s IPO. Photo: NYSE BEIJING — Chinese electric car start-ups Nio and Xpeng are turning to a lower-priced segment of the market with plans to release newly branded cars this year. Nio’s first such mass market car will

ARK Invest’s chief futurist lists five groups that should give tech investors an edge. According to Brett Winton, robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-omics sequencing, public blockchain and energy storage are key areas because they’re all entering the marketplace at the same time. “We believe that this is a unique time in technological economic history,” he told

Former US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Thursday, April 25, 2024.  Jeenah Moon | Via Reuters Former President Donald Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him unprecedented influence over the Federal Reserve, including a plan that could

South Pointe Beach in Miami Beach, Florida. Greg Iacurci MIAMI — Daniel Habibian worries about climate change.  His clothing boutique in Miami Beach’s iconic South Beach neighborhood sits just a few blocks inland from the Atlantic Ocean.  Rising seas threaten to swallow much of the Miami metro area in the coming decades as the world

ARK Invest is betting big on private tech companies. “It’s an amazing time to invest in innovation,” the firm’s chief futurist, Brett Winton, told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “Both venture exposures and public innovation companies are incredibly well valued today to take a long-term investment.”  Winton worked with the ARK Invest team to create

Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Stocks tumbled Thursday after the latest U.S. economic data showed a sharp slowdown in growth and pointed to persistent inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 611 points, or 1.6%, weighed down by steep declines in

Signage shines through a window reflecting Barclays head office in Canary Wharf, London, U.K. Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Barclays on Thursday reported first-quarter net income attributable to shareholders of £1.55 billion ($1.93 billion), beating expectations and returning the British lender to profit amid a major strategic overhaul. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected net profit

In this article UBER Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Swedish “buy now, pay later” pioneer said Tuesday that its new design would help users find the items they want by using more advanced AI recommendation algorithms, while merchants will be able to target customers more effectively. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket

Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of Binance, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2022. Benoit Tessier | Reuters U.S. prosecutors are seeking an above-guidance sentence of 36 months for the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance on charges of enabling money

Zhao Changpeng, founder and chief executive officer of Binance, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France June 16, 2022.  Benoit Tessier | Reuters The Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered Google and Apple to remove cryptocurrency exchange Binance from their app

Ryanjlane | E+ | Getty Images Rebates tied to home energy efficiency and created by the Inflation Reduction Act may start flowing to many consumers within months.   The federal government is issuing $8.8 billion for Home Energy Rebates programs through states, territories and tribes, which must apply for the funding. The U.S. Department of

Yana Iskayeva | Moment | Getty Images The uber wealthy live a world apart and their investing strategies also look vastly different from the average investor’s portfolio. “While there is no official threshold, centimillionaires or individuals with a total net worth of over $100 million, is a good benchmark as entry into the 0.001% club,”

Investors should consider commodities due to a “big change” involving international expansion, according to VanEck CEO Jan van Eck. “The world economy started growing again,” van Eck told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. He singles out China, the world’s second-largest economy behind the U.S., as a key driver in the expansion. “China which has been

Illustration of a cybercriminal using a computer. Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao | Moment | Getty Images A huge fraud website used by thousands of criminals to trick people into handing over personal information such as email addresses, passwords, and bank details, has been infiltrated by international police. Britain’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement Thursday that the

In this article SMH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Investing in semiconductors may be the most efficient way to play the artificial intelligence boom, according to VanEck’s CEO. “Semiconductors have become the heart of the AI trade,” Jan van Eck told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. His firm’s VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH), which tracks

Pictured here is a commercial residential property under construction on March 20, 2024, in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in south China. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s fiscal stimulus is losing its effectiveness and is more of a strategy to buy time for industrial and consumption

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park on Aug. 8, 2020. Darwin Fan | Moment | Getty Images Visitors to national parks will get free admission on April 20 as the federal government waives entrance fees to commemorate the start of National Park Week. National Park Week runs for nine days, from April 20 to April

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – AUGUST 03: (L – R) Danielle, Hyein, Hanni, Minji and Haerin of NewJeans perform in concert during Lollapalooza at Grant Park on August 03, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Gary Miller | Filmmagic | Getty Images It hasn’t been an easy start to the year for investors in the K-pop sector as lower

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the “Federal Reserve’s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 6, 2024.  Bonnie Cash | Reuters If there was any doubt before, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pretty much cemented the likelihood that there won’t be

In this article .BKX US10Y Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Regional bank earnings may expose critical weaknesses, according to Sheila Bair, former chair of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Their quarterly numbers begin hitting Wall Street this week. “I’m worried about a handful of them,” Bair told CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Tuesday. “I

Janina Steinmetz | Digitalvision | Getty Images When it comes to dating etiquette, one question seems to inspire more anxiety than most: Who pays for the first date? Dating experts think there’s a clear answer for heterosexual couples. “The man should pay for the first date,” said Blaine Anderson, a dating coach for men. Erika

The Freetrade logo on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images British stock trading app Freetrade hit eked out breakeven earlier this year, the company told CNBC, marking its first-ever move into the black after incurring full-year losses in 2023. Freetrade reported adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and

Sergio Ermotti, CEO of Swiss banking giant UBS, during the group’s annual shareholders meeting in Zurich on May 2, 2013.  Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images Switzerland’s tough new banking regulations create a “lose-lose situation” for UBS and may limit its potential to challenge Wall Street giants, according to Beat Wittmann, partner at Zurich-based

In this article BRK.A BLK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Larry Swedroe, who is considered one of the market’s most esteemed researchers, thinks Warren Buffett’s investment style doesn’t work well anymore. He cites the number of professional Wall Street firms and hedge funds now participating in the market. “Warren Buffett was generally considered the

In this article WFC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A woman walks past Wells Fargo bank in New York City, U.S., March 17, 2020. Jeenah Moon | Reuters Wells Fargo shares fell Friday after the bank reported first-quarter earnings that showed a decline in interest income. Wells said its net interest income decreased 8%

Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images The bulk of Americans buying qualifying new electric vehicles are opting to receive an associated tax credit upfront from the car dealer instead of waiting until tax season, according to new Treasury Department data.   About 90% of consumers who qualify for a “new clean vehicle” tax credit —

In this article @GC.1 GDX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Investors looking to weather a volatile market may want to opt for physical gold over gold stocks. That’s according to George Milling-Stanley, one of the world’s experts in gold and the chief gold strategist at State Street Global Advisors. “One of the reasons I