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☆ It's a big week for central banks around the world, with a slew of rate moves on the table
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesA flurry of major central banks will hold monetary policy meetings this week, with investors bracing for interest rate moves in either direction. The U.S. central bank is widely expected to join others around the world in starting its own rate-cutting cycle. Elsewhere, Brazil's central bank is scheduled to hold its next policy meeting across Tuesday and Wednesday. Traffic outside the Central Bank of Brazil headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, on Monday, June 17, 2024. The central bank delivered its first interest rate cut in more than four years at the start of August.

Persons: Jerome Powell, William McChesney Martin, Kevin Dietsch, John Bilton, CNBC's, Bilton, David Volpe, Volpe, 25bps, Wilson Ferrarezi, BOE, Ruben Segura Cayuela Organizations: Federal Reserves, Washington , D.C, Federal, Traders, The Bank of England, Norway's Norges Bank, South Africa's, Bank, Bank of Japan, Morgan Asset Management, European, Bank of England, ECB, Emerald Asset Management, Banco Central, TS Lombard, Central Bank of, Bloomberg, Getty, Reuters, Bank of America Locations: Washington ,, U.S, Brazil's, Brazil, Central Bank of Brazil, Brasilia, South Africa, Norway, Japan

☆ Fed looks set to 'get going' on rate cuts, JPMorgan Asset Management's John Bilton says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFed looks set to 'get going' on rate cuts, JPMorgan Asset Management's John Bilton saysJohn Bilton, head of global multi-asset strategy at JPMorgan, says the Federal Reserve looks poised to "get going" on interest rate cuts.

Persons: John Bilton Organizations: JPMorgan

☆ Treating China as ‘un-investable’ would be ‘wide of the mark,’ JPMorgan strategist says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Sophie Kiderlin | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

"I don't think you can treat the world's second-largest economy as either an alternative investment or un-investable, that would be wide of the mark," Bilton said. Uncertainty around monetary policy and a shrinking labor force are further causes for concern, Bilton noted. Some analysts saw this as potential dovish policy shift from the PBOC, which has appeared reluctant to take measures that could boost the struggling economy. Financial bodies including the International Monetary Fund have called for further monetary policy reforms since then. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told CNBC this week that China had been advised to make use of more of its available fiscal and monetary policy space.

Persons: Raul Ariano, John Bilton, CNBC's, Bilton, Kristalina Georgieva Organizations: Bloomberg, Getty, JPMorgan Asset Management, People's Bank of, International Monetary Fund, IMF, CNBC Locations: Yuyuan, Shanghai, China, People's Bank of China

There's a history of Christmas pudding charms, to be hidden within the holiday treat. And there's an angel made of beads by an artisan in the Woza Moya collective of South Africa. The photographer behind the Instagram account Brown Girls Do Ballet has put together a celebratory essay in images of just that. More than 1,100 color images included in this broad overview, Glaser’s wit ever-present. Includes rarely seen images and recollections from Salt-N-Pepa, Public Enemy, Run-D.M.C., Mary J. Blige and more.

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☆ Zuck aims a killer blow at Musk outside the cage with Meta's new Threads Twitter clone
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Aside from surreal cage fight plans, Zuckerberg wants to displace Twitter with a clone called Threads. The timing is perfect: Twitter is in disarray and the Meta chief is ready to capitalize on the chaos. Zuckerberg is set to bring his Twitter killer, Threads, out into the wild this week, with pre-orders for the "text-based-conversation" service going live on Monday. What the new Threads app looks like. If Musk doesn't get Twitter back into shape soon, he'll be a loser in the virtual arena too.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Elon, Sydney Bradley, Nick Bilton, Musk, He's, he'll Organizations: Elon, Twitter, Sydney, New York Times, mojo

☆ We think the Fed will go up to 5.5% by Christmas, says JPMorgan Asset Management's John Bilton
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe think the Fed will go up to 5.5% by Christmas, says JPMorgan Asset Management's John BiltonJohn Bilton, JPMorgan Asset Management head of global multi-asset strategy, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the Fed's rate hike campaign, the global market impact of rate hikes, and more.

Persons: John Bilton John Bilton Organizations: JPMorgan Asset Management

☆ What Was Twitter, Anyway?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Willy Staley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Dorsey had nurtured the basic idea of Twitter for years — a site that would be like AOL Instant Messenger’s “away message” for anywhere, or “a more ‘live’ LiveJournal,” as he put it in a post on Flickr. But Williams, who created Blogger and sold it to Google for millions, came to see something else in Twitter: To him, its potential lay in its ability to create a running record of what was going on in the outside world. Dorsey was insistent that it was the latter: “You’re talking about your status as you look at the fire.”To Dorsey, the fact that Twitter creates a record of the world would be an incidental byproduct of all this status-sharing. He posted it to Twitter with a brief caption. Dorsey and Williams were correct to identify this as a conflict, even if they could not design or engineer it away.

☆ This leaked Fyre Festival pitch deck shows how Billy McFarland was able to secure millions for the most overhyped festival in history
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Mark Abadi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A leaked sales deck for 2017's Fyre Festival contains the pitch CEO Billy McFarland gave investors ahead of the failed event. The sales deck contains misleading information about Fyre Festival and has been described as "beyond parody." Fyre Festival was advertised an upscale music festival in the Bahamas, complete with luxury beach villas, gourmet food, private jets, and supermodels and influencers galore. The pitch deck was first reported on in 2017 by Vanity Fair's Nick Bilton — who uploaded the full deck online — and recirculated on LinkedIn. Read on to see some of the most shocking, outlandish, and surreal slides from the Fyre Festival pitch deck.

☆ Australia in party mode as Socceroos reach World Cup knockouts
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Ian Ransom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MELBOURNE, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Australia hailed Graham Arnold's new "golden generation" on Thursday and fans demanded a national holiday as the country celebrated the Socceroos' unlikely advance to the World Cup knockout phase. Hard work gets you places," Australian soccer pundit Adam Peacock wrote on the Herald Sun newspaper's website. Veteran winger Mathew Leckie's goal was declared Australia's best World Cup goal ever after he wrong-footed defender Joakim Maehle and fired low past goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel. Australians will dare to dream of a first World Cup quarter-final even with the might of Lionel Messi and Argentina in the way. "In fairness, Australia and Argentina have won the same amount of FIFA World Cups since 1987," local journalist Ned Balme tweeted.

☆ Elon Musk is the head of 5 companies that need strong leadership. Instead, he's starting Twitter wars.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk has made headlines for his recent tweets, which include posts about guns and Apple. Critics say the Twitter CEO's use of the platform could further endanger the struggling company. There's also been discord at SpaceX, the rocket company Musk operates. In a story for New York Magazine, Kevin Dugan wrote that Musk is unlikely to change his ways anytime soon. "It's now been a week since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, and one thing that's clear about his reign is that he will never, ever touch grass."

☆ JPMorgan predicts the best long-term 60/40 portfolio returns in more than a decade
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

There are good times ahead for the beleaguered 60/40 portfolio, according to a new report from JPMorgan. The 60/40 strategy, known as a balanced portfolio, has had a terrible year amid falling bond prices and stock market volatility. One measure of the portfolio's performance is the iShares Core Growth Allocation ETF , which has a target fixed allocation of 60/40. While inflation is still running hot, the firm expects it to subside over the next two years to reach 2.6%. "Margins will likely recede from today's levels but not reverse completely to their long-term average, and valuations present an attractive entry point," Bilton said.

☆ Here's how to invest to take advantage of the best outlook for long-term investors since 2010, according to JPMorgan Asset Management
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The forward outlook for investors is the best since 2010, according to JPMorgan Asset Management. This year is on pace to be the worst for stocks since 2008, but the long-term investing outlook is as promising as it's been since 2010, according to JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM). Both developments give long-term investors an attractive entry point. That's far lower than the 2.9% growth that the world saw from 2010 to 2020, according to JPMAM's 2021 report. How to invest for the long termInvestors should build long-term portfolios around three asset classes, according to JPMAM: stocks, bonds, and alternative assets.

☆ Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk — here's a brief history from the app's founding in 2006 to the present
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In this photo illustration, former U.S. President Donald Trump's archived Twitter account is shown on a phone screen with the Twitter logo in the background. And they happen to be the hands of Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and one of the app's most high-profile provocateurs. 2006In March, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams created Twitter, which was originally a side project stemming from the podcasting tool Odeo. 2011Twitter became an essential social media tool used during the Arab Spring, the wave of antigovernmental protests throughout Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The combined wealth of Williams, Dorsey, and Costolo hit roughly $4 billion.

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