Wall Street and Broad St. signs are seen as New York Stock Exchange building decorated for Christmas at the Financial District in New York City, United States on December 16, 2020. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five…
The escalating trade war with China is currently on something of a hiatus. In October, the Trump Administration eased tensions by reversing its decision to expand the list of Chinese companies restricted from access to advanced U.S. technology. Earlier this month, Trump said he would allow Nvidia to export to China some high-grade computer chips,…
Many times in the past decade, Donald Trump’s public addresses have reminded me of old TV commercials for the electronics chain Crazy Eddie that I used to watch as a kid in suburban New Jersey—the rat-a-tat delivery, the breathless hype, the memorably absurdist slogans. (“His prices are INSAAAANE!”) But somehow this was never more the…
The economy cabin of American Airlines A321XLR. Leslie Josephs/CNBC American Airlines is about to fly passengers to California for the first time on a skinny, long-range plane that it hopes will change air travel. The airline’s head of network planning now has to decide where else it should fly. The first Airbus A321XLR for a…
MEXICO CITY — President Trump has ordered a partial blockade on oil tankers going to and from Venezuela, potentially crippling the nation’s already battered economy, and accused Caracas of stealing “oil, land other assets” from the United States — a significant escalation of Washington’s unrelenting campaign against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Asked about Venezuela on…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York on Dec. 16, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 11, 2025, in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Cold front Rotation…
FILE PHOTO: A Broadcom logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration taken August 25, 2025. Dado Ruvic | Reuters This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Chip types The S&P 500 and…
Shoppers purchase groceries at the upscale LuLu Hypermarket located in the Lulu International Shopping Mall in Kerala, India, on May 25, 2022. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images India’s consumer inflation rose to 0.71% in November, accelerating from an all-time low of 0.25% in the prior month. The headline inflation number was in line with…
The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the top 50 percent of earners take home more than 90 percent, while the poorest half of the world receives less than 10 percent of…