Chinese shipping containers are stored beside a US flag after they were unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. – Global markets remain on red alert over a trade war between the two superpowers China and the US, that most observers warn could shatter global economic growth,

Customers try iPhones at the Apple store in Hong Kong, China. Stringer | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Multinationals that rely on the supply chain from China are tumbling after President Donald Trump ordered them to find alternatives to their Chinese operations. Shares of Apple, Nike and Caterpillar all tanked more than 3.5%, hitting their

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Arturo Estrella, the economist who first discovered the predictive power of the yield curve, has a message for recession naysayers: It could hit sooner than you think. “It’s been 50 years and 7 recessions with a perfect record,” Estrella told

A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, on Aug. 5, 2019. U.S. stocks plunged on Monday as investors worry that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened new tariffs on Chinese imports will worsen trade prospects. The Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 767.27 points, or 2.90 percent, to 25,717.74.

Michael Burry attends the “The Big Short” New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on November 23, 2015 in New York City. Jim Spellman | WireImage | Getty Images GameStop shares jumped after Barron’s reported that investor Michael Burry, one of the main money managers depicted in Michael Lewis’ book “The Big Short,” is long the

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a news conference following the Federal Reserve’s two-day Federal Open Market Committee Meeting in Washington, July 31, 2019. Sarah Silbiger | Reuters Federal Reserve members worried over future growth are highly concerned about the U.S.-China tariff battle, citing the issue multiple times during discussions at the central bank’s July

Federal Reserve officials who voted to lower interest rates three weeks ago agreed that the move shouldn’t be viewed as an indication that there is a “pre-set course” for future cuts, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. The summary indicated that policymakers viewed the move as a “mid-cycle adjustment,” an expression Chairman Jerome Powell used

Harriet Taylor | CNBC J.P. Morgan Chase customers will no longer be able to pay with their phones in stores beginning next year. The bank said it plans to shut down its Chase Pay app in early 2020. The mobile payment app was launched in 2015 just as Apple Pay was gaining popularity. “The change

A City Carrier Assistant to the United States Postal Service, unloads her mail truck after collecting mail on the busiest mailing day of the year for the U.S. Postal Service in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images As investors look for reliable income streams in a world of falling bond yields, Bank of America

With the official launch of the Apple Card, Goldman Sachs is embarking on a multi-decade journey to becoming a leader in consumer banking just as it has been in Wall Street banking and trading, CEO David Solomon said. “Apple Card is big, but it’s also a beginning,” Solomon said Tuesday in an internal memo obtained

Kyle Bass, chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management LP Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. interest rates will keep falling and follow global interest rates all the way down to zero, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass said. “We’re the only country that has an integer in front of our bond yields.

Former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt on Monday questioned the motivation of Harry Markopolos, the Bernie Madoff whistleblower who unveiled a long list of allegations against General Electric last week in an investigation for a short seller. “One of the ways you can test Markopolos’ bonafides, however, is the fact that the SEC has a whistleblower

Jim Cramer Scott Mlyn | CNBC Investors should be careful not to buy or sell stocks based on last week’s brief inversion of the yield curve in the bond market, CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned on Monday. Cramer was skeptical about buying the Dow Jones Industrial Average‘s 300-point advance at the open on Wall Street, which

Traders react after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 5, 2019 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Investors should remain guarded for the rest of August and wait until next month before thinking about returning to stocks despite any one-day bounce,

President Donald Trump held a conference call with the CEOs of the three biggest U.S. banks as the stock market plunged Wednesday. Trump held the call with J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Bank of America‘s Brian Moynihan and Citigroup‘s Michael Corbat, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The Dow plunged 800 points, or 3%, in

The allegations by Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos of a $38 billion fraud at General Electric are “at best disingenuous” and “at worst highly inaccurate,” according to Nick Heymann, co-group head of global industrial infrastructure at the William Blair financial services firm. “You got the stock on sale yesterday for absolutely no basis. This is why

A visitor at Intel’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day walks past a signboard during the event in Bangalore, India Manjunath Kiran | Getty Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Bank of America downgraded Dow Inc. to ‘underperform’ from ‘neutral’ Bank of America said it downgraded the chemical company due to global demand

Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, speaking at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2019. Adam Galica | CNBC Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio said he wouldn’t rule out China using its Treasury holdings to gain an upper hand against the U.S. in the trade war — a view that contrasts

Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh (L) and CFO Harmit Singh (R) pose ahead of the company’s IPO outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 21, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday: Bank of America upgraded Levi Strauss & Co.

The General Electric Co. logo is seen on the company’s corporate headquarters building in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. July 23, 2019 Alwyn Scott | Reuters Enron whistleblower Harry Markopolos released a report on General Electric on Thursday alleging the company is hiding financial problems. Before the report was made public, GE said, in a statement, “we

General Electric shares fell more than 11% Thursday after Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos targeted the conglomerate in a new report, accusing it of issuing fraudulent financial statements to hide the extent of its problems. A website has been set up to disseminate the report, www.GEfraud.com, where Markopolos calls it “a bigger fraud than Enron.” The

Warren Buffett Bloomberg | Getty Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been loading up on shares of Amazon. Berkshire upped its stake in the e-commerce giant by 11%, the Omaha, Nebraska-based holding company revealed in a government filing Wednesday. Berkshire now owns 537,300 shares of Amazon, worth $947 million. The holdings are as of the end

Protesters walk on a highway near Hong Kong’s international airport following a protest on August 12, 2019. Vivek Prakash | AFP | Getty Images Two months of protests in Hong Kong are starting to take a toll on some of the largest global companies, adding to a host of geopolitical concerns as the U.S.-China trade

A display of Procter & Gamble’s Pampers diapers are seen on sale in Denver. Rick Wilking | Reuters The bond market’s main yield curve inverted on Wednesday, triggering worries of an eventual recession. But investors can still win, even if the clock is ticking on this bull run. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury

Alan Greenspan Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said nothing is stopping the U.S. from getting sucked into the global trend of negative yielding debt, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. “There is international arbitrage going on in the bond market that is helping drive long-term Treasury yields lower,” Greenspan said in a phone

If low inflation, a wobbly economy and tariff jitters weren’t enough to push the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, there’s also the simple reason of the swelling national debt. The recent debt deal struck between the White House and Congress virtually guarantees trillion-dollar deficits well into the future as well as continued acceleration of

President Donald Trump meets business leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, in November, 2017. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s decision to remove some items from its new China tariffs list signals the president wants to halt the stock market’s decline. “I

Panoramic Images | Getty Images Many global investors are turning toward Silicon Valley instead of Wall Street in search of returns. The total invested in private markets hit all-time highs last year and continues to break multi-decade records this year. In the first half of the year, total investments in venture capital hit a 19-year

Farmers hand pick sweet corn on in Olathe, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson | The Denver Post | Getty Images The U.S. corn harvest will be bigger than previously forecast, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday, as the government issued a surprise boost to its yield estimate despite ongoing concerns in the country about a

The Roku IPO at the Nasdaq, September 28, 2017. Source: Nasdaq Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Monday: Needham raised its price target on Roku to $150 from $120 Needham said Roku’s “value proposition” among advertisers is “growing.” “Key take-aways from this report include: a) given similar valuations, we prefer Roku to