Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Shares of New York Stock Exchange parent, Intercontinental Exchange, rose more than 3% in the premarket after the company announced it took a $2 billion stake in prediction markets platform Polymarket. The deal values Polymarket at approximately $8 billion, both companies said in…
Tourists visit the Huangguoshu Waterfall of “Monkey King” fame in China’s Guizhou province on Oct. 5, 2025, during a week-long public holiday. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — The World Bank on Tuesday raised its 2025 growth forecast for China as part of an overall boost in projections for East Asia…
Wells Fargo Securities’ Ohsung Kwon expects artificial intelligence to dominate third-quarter earnings season. “Outside of AI, I’m not really excited about anything,” Kwon, the firm’s chief equity strategist, told CNBC’s ” Fast Money ” on Monday. He expects demand for AI to be the chief reason why results will exceed Wall Street estimates. He contends…
A person wearing an outfit inspired by The Eras Tour poses in front of “The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” posters at an AMC theater to celebrate the release of Taylor Swift’s new album “The Life of a Showgirl” in New York City, U.S., Oct. 3, 2025. Kylie Cooper | Reuters Taylor Swift gave…
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Galaxy Digital shares jumped 7% Monday after the digital assets investment firm led by CEO Mike Novogratz unveiled a Robinhood-like trading platform, called GalaxyOne. The platform, which launched Monday, hosts commission-free buying and selling of more than 2,000 stocks and exchange-traded funds, in addition to trading of cryptocurrencies…
Dan Schulman speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Verizon announced on Monday that the board of directors has appointed former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the company’s new CEO. Schulman replaces Hans Vestberg, who had led the company since 2018. Shares of the company…
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones believes the conditions are set for a powerful surge in stock prices before the bull market tops out. “My guess is that I think all the ingredients are in place for some kind of a blow off,” Jones said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “History rhymes a lot, so I…
Nike‘s turnaround plan is showing early signs of progress, but it will “take a while” for the company to return to profitable growth, CEO Elliott Hill said in an interview with CNBC’s Sara Eisen aired Monday. “When we come to work we think about three brands, and then multiple sports under each brand and then…
President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed over the summer, but the tax benefits have barely begun. Many Main Street businesses stand to gain significantly from new tax law deductions into next year, some key ones as high as 100% of costs. The favorable tax measures are not all entirely new. Some had been phased…
Investors may want to boost their exposure overseas. “Home bias is about as bad as it’s ever been in the United States. The average investor has far too much of their money sitting in the United States,” ETF.com’s Dave Nadig told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. Nadig, the firm’s president and director of research, delivered…
