Deutsche Bank sees the S&P 500 hitting 7,000 amid rising risk appetite

The bull market is poised to extend through 2025, boosted by solid demand for stocks from investors as well as strong corporate activities, such as buybacks and other spending, according to Deutsche Bank, which is calling for the S & P 500 to rise as high as 7,000. Binky Chadha, Deutsche Bank chief global strategist, set a year-end 2025 […]

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: BBWI, HOOD, M

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Bath & Body Works — The Ohio-based personal care company climbed more than 16%, on pace for its best day since November 2022. The beauty retailer raised its forecast for full-year adjusted profit and said it expects a smaller drop in annual sales, boosted by solid demand […]

Warren Buffett speaks out against creating family wealth dynasties, gives away another $1.1 billion

Warren Buffett David A. Grogan | CNBC Warren Buffett, who has amassed a $150 billion personal fortune, made a strong case against creating “dynastic” wealth as he named three independent trustees to oversee his philanthropy following his children and donated another $1.1 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to four family foundations. Instead of leaving his three children an […]

HOOD, BBWI, MSTR, M and more

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Bath & Body Works — Shares popped 16% after third-quarter earnings edged out Wall Street forecasts. The retailer earned 49 cents per share, excluding items, on revenue of $1.61 billion, while analysts polled by LSEG had anticipated earnings of 47 cents a share and revenue of […]

UniCredit offers to buy rival Italian lender Banco BPM for $10.5 billion

A logo on the UniCredit SpA headquarters in Milan, Italy, on Saturday Jan. 22, 2022. Bloomberg | Getty Images Italian lender UniCredit on Monday offered to snap up its domestic rival Banco BPM for roughly 10 billion euros ($10.5 billion) in a move it says is separate from its pursuit of German bank Commerzbank. The […]

How fund managers at Fidelity International see China’s stimulus plans

For two fund managers at Fidelity International, Beijing’s latest stimulus announcements were significant enough for them to buy more beaten-down real estate stocks. Chinese authorities have released a series of incremental measures since late September that range from cutting interest rates to extending financial support for finishing construction on apartments that have already been sold. […]

State Street worries about crypto rally

The bitcoin rally is generating a false sense of security among investors, according to the strategist behind the so-called granddaddy of gold exchange-traded funds. State Street Global Advisors’ George Milling-Stanley warns cryptocurrency plays don’t offer the stability of gold. “Bitcoin, pure and simple, it’s a return play, and I think that people have been jumping […]

Top 10 S&P 500 stock winners since Election Day

Stock traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images Many large U.S. companies have seen their stocks swell since the presidential election. The top 10 performing stocks in the S&P 500 index saw returns of 18% or more since Election Day, according to […]

RDDT, SMCI, INTU and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Elastic — Shares surged about 15% after the software company topped Wall Street’s expectations for its fiscal second-quarter results. Elastic posted adjusted earnings of 59 cents per share on revenue of $365 million. Meanwhile, analysts surveyed by LSEG expected it to earn 38 cents per share […]

Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish

Oscar Wong | Moment | Getty Images For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family. When she and her husband sold the house last year, they stowed away the proceeds, $282,153.87, in what they thought of as a safe place — an […]