Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, listens as investor Scott Bessent speaks on the economy in Asheville, N.C., Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. Matt Kelley | AP President Donald Trump has made Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after firing former head Rohit Chopra over the weekend….
The backdrop should be reassuring for many investors: A lively bull market, pro-business policies promised by the Trump administration and a Federal Reserve close to pulling off a soft landing. However, Wall Street’s biggest names aren’t sounding so bullish for the year ahead. Convening at an alternative investments conference in Miami this week, hedge fund titans…
Steve Cohen, chairman and CEO of Point72, speaking to CNBC on April 3, 2024. CNBC MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Billionaire investor Steve Cohen is standing by his long-term bullish view of artificial intelligence despite the wild volatility recently, saying the transformational shift could take decades to realize. “This is a 10- to 20-year theme. It’s…
Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday announced the launch of a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments services provided by Visa. X struck a deal with Visa, the largest U.S. credit card network, to be the first partner for what it is calling the X Money Account, CEO Linda Yaccarino announced in a post on…
A major exchange-traded fund provider is trying to take the volatility out of bitcoin investing. Calamos Investments launched the Calamos Bitcoin Structured Alt Protection ETF (CBOJ) on Wednesday. The firm brands it as “the world’s first downside protected bitcoin ETF.” It is built with risk-adverse investors in mind. “You can get in all day long….
President Donald Trump on Thursday accused the CEOs of the two largest American banks of refusing to serve conservatives, reviving a 2024 campaign talking point that the two companies deny. Speaking via video to an assembly held at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump lashed out at Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and…
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said President Donald Trump‘s efforts to unleash capital in the private sector could have unintended consequences that would hurt the stock market. “I’m cautiously optimistic. That being said, I have scenarios where it could be pretty bad,” Fink said Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “I believe…
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller believes Donald Trump’s re-election renewed a jolt of speculative enthusiasm in the markets and surging optimism within businesses. “I’ve been doing this for 49 years, and we’re probably going from the most anti-business administration to the opposite,” Druckenmiller said on CNBC Monday. “We do a lot of talking to CEOs and companies on the…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally the day before he is scheduled to be inaugurated for a second term, in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2025. Brian Snyder | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump is poised to sign a flurry of executive orders as soon as he’s sworn in, but imposing tariffs on U.S. trading partners…
Bitcoin should rip higher under President-elect Donald Trump, according to BlackRock’s ETF chief. Samara Cohen, the firm’s ETF and index instruments chief investment officer, thinks cryptocurrency deregulation will “absolutely” propel bitcoin to another historic year. “There will be progress made on… FIT21 [“Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act.] There will be progress made…
