The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump said his inaugural ceremony on Monday will be moved indoors due to the extreme cold set to grip Washington, D.C. “There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see…
President Donald Trump talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping as Xi arrives for dinner at the start of their summit at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. April 6, 2017. Carlos Barria | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump said he spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday about TikTok,…
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin rejoined the crypto rally on Friday amid reports that President-elect Donald Trump could release an executive order making crypto a national priority as soon as day 1 of his new term. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by nearly 2% at $102,639.13, according to…
George Zhao, Chief Executive Officer of Chinese consumer electronics brand Honor, smiles as he shows the new Honor Magic 6 Pro smartphones during a presentation on the eve of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 25, 2024. Pau Barrena | Afp | Getty Images George Zhao,…
In a Thursday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, First Horizon CEO Bryan Jordan said his hopes for interest rate cuts in 2025 are fairly tempered. “We use three cuts in 2025…I’m a little more cautious than that,” Jordan said. “If the economy holds up, you see job growth remain strong, you see inflation, which is…
Packages ride on a conveyor belt during Cyber Monday, one of the company’s busiest days at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo | Getty Images Amazon is laying off roughly 200 employees in its North America stores division, the company confirmed. The core retail business, which…
US President Joe Biden speaks during an event in Madison, Wisconsin, US, on Monday, April 8, 2024. Daniel Steinle | Bloomberg | Getty Images In 2023, the Supreme Court blocked Biden’s plan to deliver wide-scale student loan forgiveness for tens of millions of borrowers. But the Biden administration still managed to wipe away a large share…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday mused about how President Joe Biden impacted stocks and reviewed a prevalent question among executives — whether the market performed because or in spite of the administration. “Look, maybe it didn’t matter. Everything turned out to be just fine. Could it have been even better? Of course. Maybe it will…
View of Space X’s Starship on the launch pad for its seventh test flight, in Boca Chica, Texas, U.S. Maxar Technologies | Via Reuters Several commercial flights were diverted or delayed after SpaceX’s Starship rocket broke up during its seventh flight test on Thursday. Dozens of flights were affected, according to flight-tracker Flightradar24. The Federal Aviation…
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…
