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Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has been testifying on Capitol Hill this week, and it’s pretty clear that he is not a fan of digital coins – especially stablecoins. During a two-day congressional hearing, the Fed chief said the main incentive for the U.S. to launch its own central bank digital currency, or CBDC, would

A view of the Norwegian Encore cruise ship during its inaugural sailing from PortMiami, which took place from Nov. 21-24, 2019. Orlando Sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. State Street — The financial firm’s shares rose 2.6% after beating on the top and bottom

An executive chef interviews a job seeker about hospitality employment during a job fair on June 23, 2021 in Torrance, California. PATRICK T. FALLON | AFP | Getty Images The rapidly spreading delta variant of Covid-19 may be reason for Congress to extend federal unemployment benefits past their expiration in early September, according to some

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during the daily press briefing on May 7, 2021, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets next week to discuss the role stablecoins

Gojek drivers wearing protective masks wait for a customer along a road in Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia’s late-stage start-ups are attracting growing interest from blank-check companies that want to take them public, a venture investor told CNBC. More than 40 SPACs

[The stream is slated to start at 9:30 am ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appears Thursday before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs to conclude his two-day appearance on Capitol Hill to discuss the economy and

SINGAPORE — As most of Southeast Asia continues to grapple with Covid, Singapore stocks are a standout regionally, according to HSBC Private Banking & Wealth Management’s James Cheo. “We are just generally a little bit more cautious on Southeast Asia region, but within which, we are actually positive on Singapore,” Cheo, Southeast Asia chief investment

In this article CLNE CLOVW GME AMC Pedestrians pass in front of an AMC theater in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC The price of AMC Entertainment stock has been cut in half from its peak amid a big rout in meme stocks this month as the reality of bubble-like rallies and failing businesses started

Investors may want to keep the antacid nearby. Long-term market bull Tony Dwyer sees near-term turbulence in connection with his “summer of indigestion” call. So, he’s encouraging investors to resist making any big moves right now. “We’ve had one heck of a run. It’s been an excessive run in the indices,” the Canaccord Genuity chief

Signage for digital payment services Alipay by Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, and WeChat Pay by Tencent are displayed outside a currency exchange in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Chan Long Hei | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — As China’s anti-monopoly and data security crackdown creeps into restrictions on U.S.

In this article SE 22UA-DE A signage for Temasek Holdings is displayed during a news conference following the company’s annual review in Singapore on July 9, 2019. Bryan van der Beek | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore’s state investment company Temasek said Tuesday the net value of its portfolio reached a record high

A pile of U.S. dollar banknotes. Chris Clor | Tetra images | Getty Images In March last year, a top venture capital firm described Covid-19 as the “black swan of 2020.” “Private financings could soften significantly, as happened in 2001 and 2009,” Sequoia Capital told portfolio company founders and CEOs in a memo reminiscent of

The recent regulatory scrutiny on cryptocurrency is “very healthy” for the sector, crypto billionaire Wu Jihan told CNBC on Tuesday. “I think that such kind of crackdown may be a good thing for the industry in long term,” Wu said on the sidelines of the Asia Tech x Singapore conference. Wu, co-founder and chairman of

In this article BA JPM PEP Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: PepsiCo (PEP) – The snack and beverage giant gained 1.3% in premarket trading, after beating estimates on the top and bottom lines and raising its full-year forecast. PepsiCo earned an adjusted $1.72 per share for the quarter, 19 cents above

10’000 Hours | DigitalVision | Getty Images Target-date funds have ballooned in popularity over the past 15 years — yet many investors aren’t using them the way they were intended. The funds were designed as a one-stop shop that put retirement savings on autopilot. Investors are meant to park their nest egg in one fund,

In this article VZ MA Mastercard and Verizon announced Tuesday a new partnership focused on 5G contactless payments for consumers as well as small- and medium-sized businesses. They hope to have some innovations from the partnership by 2023. The collaboration aims to enable businesses to use emerging payment technologies to turn smartphones in to cash

San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly poses at the bank’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., July 16, 2019. Ann Saphir | Reuters San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly told CNBC on Tuesday that a strong economic recovery will allow the central bank to slow its asset purchases, possibly near the end

In this article 9988-HK A logo of Ant Group is pictured at the headquarters of the company, an affiliate of Alibaba, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 29, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters GUANGZHOU, China ’ China has given its approval to Ant Group to operate a consumer finance company, a key positive step in

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange, June 2, 2021. Source: NYSE U.S. stock futures were flat on Wednesday night following a quiet day of trading. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 8 points, or less than 0.1%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also gained marginally. During the regular session, the

Less than two months after Coinbase’s stock market debut, rival crypto exchange Kraken is bringing its mobile app to the U.S. as retail investors flock to digital currencies.  Starting Wednesday, the new Kraken App will allow many users across the U.S. to securely buy and sell more than 50 crypto tokens from their mobile phones.

The flags of China, U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party are displayed in a flag stall at the Yiwu Wholesale Market in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China, May 10, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING ’ China’s Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke Wednesday for the first time since President Joe

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: AMC Entertainment (AMC) ’ AMC is selling 8.5 million shares to investment firm Mudrick Capital for $230.5 million, following the recent surge in the movie theater operator’s stock price. AMC plans to use the proceeds to pursue the acquisition of theater assets and

In this article ETH= BTC.BS=-USS TIGR FUTU In this photo illustration a Bitcoin logo seen displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages in the background. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images BEIJING ’ Two of China’s rivals to stock trading app Robinhood are looking to cryptocurrencies as a way to

R.Tsubin | Moment | Getty Images The Biden administration wants to get tougher on tax cheats ’ and cryptocurrency is an area of interest. Virtual currencies like bitcoin and ethereum, which are collectively valued around $2 trillion, offer investors a way to shield income from tax authorities. In that way, the crypto economy contributes to

Workers load packages into delivery carts at a JD.com distribution center in Beijing on July 16, 2020. GREG BAKER | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING ’ In less than a year, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has raised more than $10 billion through public offerings in Hong Kong and New York. The listings involved JD’s subsidiaries

Sharebite CEO and cofounder Dilip Rao and co-founder Mohsin Memon Source: Sharebite There’s no such thing as a free lunch ’ except when big companies want to get their employees back to the office during a pandemic. Employers including banks and asset managers, technology companies and law firms are ramping up back-to-work plans as more

An AMC theatre is pictured amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 27, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Shares of AMC Entertainment jumped double digits in premarket trading on Friday as Reddit traders kept piling into the speculative name this week. The stock popped

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: AMC Entertainment (AMC) ’ The movie theater operator’s shares jumped another 15.4% in premarket trading, following four straight days of gains and a nearly 36% surge in Thursday’s session alone. AMC ’ popular among the so-called “meme” stocks ’ has more than doubled

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. AMC Entertainment ’ Shares of AMC Entertainment are in a middle of a roller-coaster session Friday as they turned 5% lower after rallying as much as 38%. By midday, over 360 million shares have already been traded, more than tripling its 30-day average. Shares have already

Peter Dazeley | The Image Bank | Getty Images The threat of losing unemployment benefits in two dozen states had a modest but short-lived effect on job search activity, according to an analysis published Thursday by job site Indeed. At least 24 states have announced their early withdrawal from pandemic-era unemployment programs since early May.