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☆ Morgan Stanley tells wealth advisors they can pitch bitcoin ETFs in a first for a big bank
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Morgan Stanley on Friday told its army of financial advisors that it will soon allow them to offer bitcoin ETFs to some clients, a first among major Wall Street banks, CNBC has learned. The firm's 15,000 or so financial advisors can solicit eligible clients to purchase shares of two exchange-traded bitcoin funds starting Wednesday, according to people with knowledge of the policy. Those funds are BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust and Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, the people said. The move from Morgan Stanley, one of the world's largest wealth management firms, is the latest sign of the adoption of bitcoin by mainstream finance. In January, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved applications for 11 spot bitcoin ETFs, heralding the arrival of an investment vehicle for bitcoin that is easier to access, cheaper to own and more readily traded.

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Stocks sold off Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling nearly 500 points, as investors’ fears over a recession surfaced. The 10-year Treasury yield broke below 4% for the first time since February in a sign that more investors were seeking safe-haven assets. That weak data comes a day after the Fed chose to keep rates at the highest levels in two decades. “The economic data keep rolling on in the direction of a downturn, if not recession, this morning,” said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at FWDBONDS, a financial market research company. The S&P 500 is still up about 14% for the year, coming off its eighth-positive month in the last nine in July.

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☆ It turns out that bad news for the economy may actually be bad news for the stock market
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( John Melloy | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

There was a perverse view this year that bad economic news was actually good news for the stock market, as the heat coming off the economy would give the Federal Reserve the greenlight to cut interest rates. This made some sense with inflation for the first time in a while becoming the primary market bogeyman over a slowing economy. Announced layoffs last month were the highest for any July in more than two decades, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported. Investors got what they thought they wanted, with the 10-year Treasury yield breaking below 4% for the first time since February. Even tech stocks found themselves in the red as they too, may be hurt more by a slowing economy, than their valuations are boosted by lower rates.

Persons: Jerome Powell, Chris Rupkey, Adam Crisafulli, Dow Jones, Yun Li, Jeff Cox Organizations: Federal Reserve, Institute for Supply Management, Investors, Dow Jones, Dow, JPMorgan Chase, Caterpillar, Vital Knowledge Locations: U.S

☆ 3 phrases the most successful employees never use at work, from CEOs and psychologists
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sometimes, what separates successful people from everyone else isn't what they say — it's what they don't say. Other sayings, like "keep me in the loop" or "just checking in," can unintentionally come across as passive-aggressive, Slack executive Jaime DeLanghe told CNBC Make It in 2022. In particular, the best employees typically steer clear from these three phrases and sayings, according to CEOs, psychologists and linguistics experts:'It is what it is'There's one phrase bosses and colleagues don't want to hear when they're facing a problem at work: "It is what it is." Using it, however, can appear highly passive to other people and tarnish their trust in you, McWhorter said. That means there's one sentence that can frustrate such CEOs: This is how we've always done it.

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☆ Analysts overwhelmingly say buy Microsoft on postearnings dip, AI story intact
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Analysts on Wall Street think Microsoft's postearnings pullback is a buying opportunity. Shares of the technology company dipped 1% after Microsoft's disappointing cloud revenue obscured stronger-than-expected overall results for the fiscal fourth quarter. Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud segment raked in $28.52 billion in revenue last quarter, while analysts polled by LSEG expected $28.68 billion. Take a look at what some analysts around the Street said after Microsoft released its results. Goldman Sachs Analyst Kash Rangan maintained a buy rating on Microsoft and reiterated his $515 per share price target.

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☆ Extreme heat is prompting higher home cooling costs. It is also putting some individuals at risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Visitors walk during a long-duration heat wave impacting much of California on July 9 in Death Valley National Park, California. Amid surging summer heat, the earth reached a new hottest day on record on July 22. That day, the global average temperature was almost 63 degrees Fahrenheit, and was surrounded by similar high temperature days. As a result, many Americans face a tough tradeoff between paying higher cooling costs or suffering in the heat to save money, research finds. Home cooling costs have risen in the past decade as higher temperatures require more electricity.

Persons: Heather Higginbottom Organizations: Finance, Miami, National Energy Assistance, Association, Center for Energy, U.S, JPMorgan Chase Institute, JPMorgan Chase Locations: California, Death, , California

☆ Delta hires powerful lawyer David Boies’ firm to seek compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for its outage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

And now it wants Microsoft and the cybersecurity firm that caused the problem to compensate it for at least some of its losses. Delta has hired high-profile attorney David Boies’ law firm to seek damages from cyber security firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the massive service issues it suffered last week following a badly flawed software update caused problems in a key computer program. The hiring of the firm of Boies Schiller Flexner, first reported by CNBC, was confirmed to CNN by a person familiar with the decision. Delta’s costs could total between $325 million to $475 million, according to a note published Tuesday by Savanthi Syth, airline analyst for Raymond James. Boies and his firm won $290 million in 2023 from JPMorgan Chase for Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse victims.

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☆ Investors are punishing stocks that miss earnings more than normal this season
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Companies with disappointing quarterly results are getting punished more than usual this earnings season. This phenomenon underscores the high expectations going into this season as well as a stock market that's viewed by many as overheated. Case in point, shares of Ford Motors plunged more than 18% on Thursday after the automaker came in short of earnings expectations due to warranty costs. "So far this earnings season, the results for many large bellwether companies have been better than the stock reactions," John Belton, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds, said in an email. Investors will be closely watching this week's earnings slate , which includes Microsoft , Meta Platforms , Apple and Amazon .

Persons: FactSet, Peter Boockvar, Dexcom, John Belton Organizations: Bleakley Financial, CNBC, Ford Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Gabelli, Microsoft, Meta, Apple

☆ Chase to Bar Customers From Using Credit Cards for ‘Pay Later’ Loans
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Ann Carrns | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest credit card issuer, will bar customers from using its credit cards to repay increasingly popular “buy now, pay later” installment loans. Chase said in an emailed statement that buy now, pay later installment loans “are a form of credit” and that the bank did “not generally allow customers to pay for credit products” with their Chase credit cards. Chase has been alerting customers about the change, which takes effect on Oct. 10, and telling them to link a new form of payment to the pay later accounts to avoid missed payments and possible late fees. Chase is not the first credit card issuer to make the move. Capital One, the fourth-largest card issuer, barred use of its credit cards for pay later loans in late 2020.

Persons: Chase, ”, Sarah Strauss, “ Organizations: JPMorgan Chase, PayPal, Capital

☆ Gen X is in charge now and boomers are being shown the door
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Harris is 59 and was born October 20, 1964 — putting her just weeks outside the Gen X range which is generally thought to span 1965 to the early 1980s. His successor has not been confirmed, but one name being floated is his Gen X lieutenant Stephanie Pope. Could the House of Mouse soon have its first Gen X leader? The picture is not completely clear on how Gen X bosses differ from their predecessors on issues such as remote work and the role of AI in the workplace. AdvertisementIt won't be long, though, until Gen X has a majority grip over power.

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Shortly after the Biden administration took office in 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris started calling the chief executives of large banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. The federal government was making hundreds of billions of dollars available for banks to lend to small businesses to keep them afloat during the pandemic recession. Ms. Harris told the executives they needed to be lending more, faster, particularly to minority-owned businesses that data suggested were struggling to gain access to the money. The calls represented one of the earliest and most visible forays Ms. Harris made in devising and carrying out the Biden administration’s economic agenda, and illustrated the sort of economic policy niche that she has filled as vice president. Current and former administration officials, progressive leaders outside the White House and allies of Ms. Harris roundly agree that the vice president, who is now the leading candidate to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, did not play a major role in the creation of the sweeping economic legislation that has defined President Biden’s time in office.

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☆ Opinion | Is the Populism of the Trump G.O.P. Real or Fake?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Julius Krein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before last week’s Republican convention, Donald Trump seemed to be moving away from the populism that characterized his 2016 campaign. “He’s defending big business, cozying up to billionaires, and wooing C.E.O.s.”When Mr. Trump named Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate, though, pundits quickly concluded that he was doubling down on populism. In his convention speech, Mr. Vance denounced NAFTA and China trade deals and promised to prioritize American workers over multinational corporations. On the other hand, in a long interview with Bloomberg (conducted in late June) that came out after the announcement of Mr. Vance’s selection, Mr. Trump hardly sounded like a firebrand economic populist. He floated the idea of reducing corporate tax rates to 15 percent and said he’d consider the JPMorgan Chase C.E.O., Jamie Dimon, as a potential Treasury secretary.

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☆ FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing' that it says links cost to customer data
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Contessa Brewer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Federal Trade Commission is launching an investigation into so-called "surveillance pricing," seeking more information about how artificial intelligence is used to change pricing rapidly based on data about customer behavior and characteristics. The FTC says the practice allows companies to charge different customers, different prices. "Firms that harvest Americans' personal data can put people's privacy at risk," FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a news release. Kahn describes surveillance pricing as a "shadowy ecosystem of pricing middlemen." Mastercard said in a statement, "We will cooperate with the FTC in this process."

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☆ Trump says he 'doesn't know who' brought up adding Jamie Dimon to his Cabinet. It was Trump.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Trump says he's never considered Jamie Dimon for the role of Treasury Secretary in his cabinet. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementDonald Trump says he has no idea who suggested JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for the role of his Treasury Secretary. It was Trump himself who brought it up just a month ago.

Persons: Trump, he's, Jamie Dimon, he'd, —, Donald Trump, Larry Fink Organizations: Trump, GOP, JPMorgan Chase, Service, Treasury, Business

☆ Trump said he’d consider Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary but now says he doesn’t know who said that
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Kate Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump said in a recent interview he would consider nominating JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary, but on Tuesday said he doesn’t know who said that or where that came from. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published earlier this month, Trump said, “I have a lot of respect for Jamie Dimon.” He was then asked whether Dimon might be a future Trump administration Treasury secretary. Trump’s comments on Dimon in the Bloomberg interview were a sharp departure from his previous posture on the JPMorgan chief executive. Trump bashed Dimon in November as a “Highly overrated Globalist” in a Truth Social Post after Dimon praised Nikki Haley, who was at the time still running for president in the GOP primary. But Dimon then said earlier this year he thought Trump was right about key issues and that bashing his “Make America Great Again” movement would hurt President Joe Biden.

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☆ A Silicon Valley executive had $400,000 stolen by cybercriminals while buying a home. Here’s her warning
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Real estate, with its large transaction sizes and frequent use of wire transfers, has proven to be an especially lucrative target for criminals. In early July, Robillard told CNBC she had no idea whether she would ever see her money again. Courtesy: Rana RobillardRobillard says she decided to publicize her story to boost awareness of real estate wire fraud, besides being a last-ditch attempt at getting her money back. "This is not what I thought my public representation would look like, which is that I've lost all this money," Robillard said. While Martinez, California-based Compass Mortgage denies being hacked, it acknowledged that the email with wire directions wasn't from them, according to Robillard.

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☆ Investment banking is back — and the recovery is just getting started
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Investment banking was the rock star of big bank earnings this season. For Club stock Morgan Stanley, investment banking revenues surged 51% year over year with equity underwriting fees jumping over 56%, and advisory fees increasing over 30% from the year-ago period. Wells Fargo's investment banking revenues, which fall underneath its corporate and investment banking (CIB) division, jumped 38% year over year. "The investments we have been making allowed us to take advantage of the market activity in the quarter with strong performance in investment advisory, trading and investment banking fees." And good news for investors, it doesn't look like the rebound in investment banking is slowing anytime soon.

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☆ Berkshire sells around $1.48 billion Bank of America shares, filing shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The exterior of a Bank of America on July 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Berkshire Hathaway sold about 33.9 million shares of Bank of America for around $1.48 billion over multiple transactions this week, a regulatory filing showed. After the sale, Berkshire owned about 999 million BofA shares. It also invests in several other banks, including Wells Fargo & Co and JPMorgan Chase. The conglomerate, owned by Warren Buffett, began investing in Bank of America in 2011, purchasing $5 billion of preferred stock plus warrants to buy 700 million common shares, at a time many investors worried about the bank's capital needs.

Persons: Berkshire Hathaway, Wells, JPMorgan Chase, Warren Buffett Organizations: Bank of America, & Co, JPMorgan Locations: Austin , Texas, Berkshire, Charlotte , North Carolina

☆ Election chaos and Friday’s tech outage are taking the market on a wild ride
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Stocks are soaring this year, but that could soon change as election chaos takes the market on a rollercoaster ride. But this has been a destabilizing week for US stocks and the market trajectory could be shifting. The Dow was down more than 430 points, or 1%, in the morning trading session on Friday as the tech outage continued to rattle investors. Former President Donald Trump, meanwhile, said in an interview with Bloomberg that Taiwan should pay for its own defense. The bright sideInvestors have been largely resilient this year and some financial bigwigs say the election won’t change that.

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☆ Banks Hit With Service Glitches
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Michael J. De La Merced | More About Michael J. De La Merced | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Financial transactions around the world were affected by a tech outage on Friday, hampering operations as workers at several firms struggled to log into their corporate systems. Employees at companies including JPMorgan Chase and Instinet, a brokerage firm owned by the Japanese bank Nomura, have had trouble gaining access to their work stations, according to people with knowledge of the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. That has led to delays in some trades, though the companies have been working on workarounds, the people said. The London Stock Exchange said that its RNS corporate news service was unable to publish, citing a “third-party global technical issue” that it was investigating. The exchange operator added that the matter was not affecting securities trading and other services.

Organizations: Employees, JPMorgan Chase, Nomura, London Stock Exchange

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits discrimination in credit transactions. However, it's worth acknowledging that things aren't as bleak as they were decades ago — and a big part of that credit goes to the enactment of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. What is the Equal Credit Opportunity Act? The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) is a federal law that promotes fairness and prohibits discrimination in credit transactions. Your rights under the Equal Credit Opportunity ActBefore applying for a loan or taking out a line of credit, make sure you know your rights under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act so you're not taken advantage of.

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☆ Bye-bye bitcoin, hello AI: Texas miners leave crypto for next new wave
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

watch nowThere are a lot of synergies between the bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure businesses. watch nowBeefing up the gridFor years, Crusoe's work has been virtually synonymous with the bitcoin mining industry. But Crusoe's Lochmiller told CNBC that AI infrastructure has actually been part of the vision since the company's founding six years ago. Back in 2018, Fenn says that the only load that was a good fit for this was bitcoin mining. "That has all changed now, with AI data centers optimized for massive scale energy availability, cost, and greenness.

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