SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at a press conference where he announced the Japanese billionaire chosen by the company to fly around the moon, on September 17, 2018 in Hawthorne, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images SpaceX is launching more often than any other country or company and CEO Elon Musk touted low insurance costs as proof
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Michael Corbat, CEO of Citigroup at the 2018 WEF in Davos, Switzerland. Adam Galica | CNBC Citigroup reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: $1.05 per share vs $1.87 per share in the year-earlier period Revenue: $20.7 billion, up 12% from the previous year Net income: $2.52 billion, down 46% from
David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, speaks during the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, September 25, 2019. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Goldman Sachs reported first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Wednesday. Goldman Sachs earned $3.11 a share in the first quarter with revenue of $8.74 billion. Goldman shares are lower by 1.6% in
Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Professional investors are heading for the sidelines while demanding that companies stop using their cash to buy back stocks and instead improve their balance sheets. The Bank of America Global Fund Manager survey for April reflects the large level of caution seen in the markets since efforts to stop the coronavirus
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said that dominant U.S. companies are further solidifying their positions during the coronavirus pandemic, evidenced by the Nasdaq 100 being almost even for the year. “This is the big triumphing over the little guy and if you don’t mind making money in the market off that, that’s what’s going on,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the
A pedestrian walks past a branch of ICICI Bank Ltd. in Mumbai, India, on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013. Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg via Getty Images Big bank stocks in India are falling like nine pins. Some investors believe that the gloominess might be overdone. Shares of private sector banks have had a wretched run of
My colleague, Jim Cramer, made a very interesting recommendation Monday morning, calling on the U.S. Treasury to issue a $1 trillion, 30-year “war bond” to finance out battle against the coronavirus. He pitched the idea on CNBC to Larry Kudlow, who chairs the White House National Economic Council and promised to propose the idea directly
Carson Block Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Carson Block’s Muddy Waters Research announced Wednesday it has taken a short position in eHealth Inc., which owns a digital health insurance exchange. Block, the firm’s founder, disclosed the position on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.“ Muddy Waters argues eHealth, with a stock market value of $3 billion as of Tuesday’s close,
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday praised the Federal Reserve‘s latest moves to help keep afloat a U.S. economy that’s been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Before the stock market opened, the Federal unveiled details of its much-anticipated Main Street lending program and other initiatives, a total of $2.3 trillion in loans to help businesses and municipalities.
James Gorman, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman fell ill with the coronavirus about three weeks ago and has since recovered and been cleared by physicians, according to a company spokesman. The executive remained in charge of Morgan Stanley the entire time he
Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, right, speaks beside U.S. President Donald Trump during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Kevin Dietsch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Banks are scrambling to process a growing backlog of applications for the
The Federal Reserve is lifting the asset cap it has imposed on Wells Fargo so the bank can participate in the government’s business lending programs. In a move that was expected, the central bank said Wells will have to return proceeds it gets from the Payment Protection Plan and a coming Main Street lending program
A pronounced economic slump sparked by the coronavirus outbreak has imperiled a popular investment strategy: buying dividend stocks. These stocks have traditionally been highly coveted during periods of market turbulence because they provide shareholders a dividend or a guaranteed return, typically paid out annually out of the company’s profits or reserves. That investment approach is
Exxon is slashing its 2020 capital spending plan as depressed oil prices hammer the energy sector, but CEO Darren Woods said that the company’s dividend is safe for the time being. “A lot of our shareholders are retail shareholders — people who depend on that dividend — so we’ve been pretty committed to maintaining that
Younger investors have lately been buying shares of cruise lines, two Wall Street strategists told CNBC on Monday. TD Ameritrade‘s JJ Kinahan said Royal Caribbean and Carnival Corp. have been two stocks that the brokerage firm’s millennial clients have added to their portfolio in the month of Month. “At first you might be like, ‘Oh
Blue Origin’s headquarters in Kent, Washington. Blue Origin Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin confirmed on Monday that two employees at its Seattle-area headquarters tested positive for coronavirus. The employees, who are married couple, work at Blue Origin’s headquarters in Kent, Washington and were last in the office about two weeks ago. The company has
Astra tests a rocket at its headquarters on the San Francisco Bay in Alameda, California. Astra Rocket builder Astra, a San Francisco-area startup, recently reduced its staff through a mix of furloughs and layoffs in order to survive delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a person familiar with the situation told CNBC. Astra cut its overall
One of the advantages of being in the investment business for as long as I have is that, in times of incredible market distress, I get to invoke that wry and somewhat misleading saying, “Well, this isn’t my first rodeo.” Another advantage is that my past was full of so many research assignments that I
Mohamed El-Erian said Wednesday he would be hesitant to put cash to work, arguing the stock market is still on a downward trend due to the coronavirus pandemic. But he offered a roadmap for investors who feel inclined to add to their portfolios. “Whatever cash you have, divide it over five installments,” El-Erian said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” suggesting dollar
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told employees in a memo Thursday he is “happy to be back at work” following emergency heart surgery last month. “I have been recuperating well and getting stronger every day, and I am happy to be back to work this week — albeit working remotely like so many of you,” Dimon