2024-10-23

Market reckoning on spending is coming after election

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones is raising alarms about the U.S. government’s current fiscal deficit and the increased spending promised by both presidential candidates, saying the bond market may force the government’s hand after the election in addressing it. “We are going to be broke really quickly unless we get serious about dealing with our spending issues,”…

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2024-10-16

Goldman Sachs (GS) earnings Q3 2024

David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., during an interview for an episode of “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” in New York, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs topped estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue on strong results from its stock trading and investment banking operations….

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2024-10-15

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway hikes SiriusXM stake to 32%

Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024.  David A. Grogan Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway continued to increase its stake in SiriusXM, now owning 32% of the New York-based satellite radio company. The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate purchased roughly 3.6 million shares for about $87…

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2024-10-15

Trump or Harris? 2024 stakes for America’s businesses

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris face off in the ABC presidential debate on Sept. 10, 2024. Getty Images With the U.S. election less than a month away, the country and its corporations are staring down two drastically different options. For airlines, banks, electric vehicle makers, health-care companies, media firms, restaurants and tech giants, the outcome…

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2024-10-13

JPM’s Dimon says geopolitical risks ‘treacherous and getting worse’

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees risks climbing around the world amid widening conflicts in the Middle East and with Russia’s invasion…

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2024-10-12

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) earnings Q3 2024

JPMorgan Chase posted third-quarter results that topped estimates for profit and revenue as the company generated more interest income than expected. Here’s what the company reported: Earnings: $4.37 a share vs. $4.01 a share LSEG estimate Revenue: $43.32 billion, vs. $41.63 billion estimate JPMorgan said profit fell 2% from a year earlier to $12.9 billion, while revenue climbed 6%…

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2024-10-12

Berkshire slashes Bank of America stake to under 10%

Warren Buffett walks the floor ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2024.  David A. Grogen | CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has reduced its stake in Bank of America to below 10% amid a selling spree that started in mid-July. In a Thursday night filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…

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2024-10-11

Banks aren’t in the clear just yet

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell holds a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy in Washington, U.S., September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner Tom Brenner | Reuters Falling interest rates are usually good news for banks, especially when the cuts aren’t a harbinger of recession. That’s because lower rates will…

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2024-09-25

DOJ accuses Visa of monopoly that affects price of ‘nearly everything’

Justin Sullivan | etty Images The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday sued Visa, the world’s biggest payments network, saying it propped up an illegal monopoly over debit payments by imposing “exclusionary” agreements on partners and smothering upstart firms. Visa’s moves over the years have resulted in American consumers and merchants paying billions of dollars in additional fees, according to…

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