Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Adam Jeffery | CNBC J.P. Morgan Chase announced the creation of a new business called the Development Finance Institution to boost private investment in emerging-market development projects. The lender said it can finance more than $100 billion annually from its investment bank and created a formal
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Top Wall Street economist Michael Gapen believes the market’s record rally has stamina. The Barclays head of U.S. economics research cites a calm economic backdrop as a major driver. “We’re kind of sitting at a trend-like outlook where growth is around 2% this year,” he told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Friday. “It’s a very benign
Judy Shelton, U.S. executive director for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, speaks during an interview in Washington, D.C., May 29, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s intention to nominate economist Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve comes with two pressing questions — whether she could be a future
Nestle Health Lab Imagine receiving customized nutrition advice based on your personal biologic or genetic profile. That’s the “future of food,” according to a UBS analyst, who sees diet personalization as the next plant-based meat. Personalized nutrition could generate annual revenues as high as $64 billion by 2040, the firm said. Plus, big-name companies such
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple (L), Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft (C) and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google. Getty Images The stock market travels on the currents of supply and demand. That’s uncontroversial. Yet as the indexes have sped to new highs, plenty of observers have argued that a relative shortage of stocks combined with
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., January 31, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The new year is not even three full weeks old, and already half a trillion dollars has been added to the S&P 500‘s value. Some investors worry either the economy has to
People shop at the newly opened Amazon Go Store on May 07, 2019 in New York City. The cashier-less store, the first of this type of store, called Amazon Go, accepts cash and is the 12th such store in the United States located at Brookfield Place in downtown New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images
Toward the end of NBCUniversal’s two-hour long presentation of its Peacock streaming video service Thursday, the media and entertainment company dropped a revealing piece of information that rival companies haven’t made available. Comcast’s NBCUniversal estimates its streaming service will generate average revenue per user (ARPU) per month of $6 to $7. This is an aggregate
Fluorescent shipping containers, billiard tables atop AstroTurf, and his signature “MATH” campaign signs plastered to the walls greeted Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Thursday night at a fundraiser in downtown San Francisco. Hundreds of supporters braved a torrential downpour and a line that wrapped around city blocks to see the entrepreneur and nonprofit executive,
CEO Of Netflix, Reed Hastings, attends the red carpet during the Netflix presentation party at the Invernadero del Palacio de Cristal de la Arganzuela on April 4, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Juan Naharro Gimenez | Getty Images Here are the most important things to know about Tuesday before you hit the door. 1. Netflix reports