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A protestor holds a placard with a slogan reading “Stop Merger Horror” during a union demonstration outside the Commerzbank AG headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Italy’s UniCredit appears to have caught German authorities off guard with a potential multibillion-euro merger of Frankfurt-based Commerzbank, a move

A Southwest Airlines plane takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Friday, July 12, 2024.  Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Southwest Airlines is planning to reduce service to and from Atlanta next year, cutting more than 300 pilot and flight attendant positions, according to a company memo

A logo for financial service company Merrill Lynch is seen in New York. Emmanuel Dunand | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Harvest Volatility Management and Merrill Lynch on Wednesday for exceeding clients’ predesignated investment limits over a two-year period. Merrill, owned by Bank of America, and Harvest have agreed

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

A China Resources property under construction in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, Sept 24, 2024.  Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s slowing economy needs more than interest rate cuts to boost growth, analysts said. The People’s Bank of China on Tuesday surprised markets by announcing plans to cut a number of rates,

Novo Nordisk‘s top executive faced a Senate grilling on Tuesday over the high prices of the company’s weight loss drug Wegovy and diabetes treatment Ozempic, as demand for both injections soars in the U.S.  Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen did not explicitly promise lawmakers at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington,

US Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman attends a “Fed Listens” event at the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2019. Eric Baradat | AFP | Getty Images Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said Tuesday she thought her colleagues should have taken a more measured approach to last week’s half percentage point interest

Beyoncé at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1, 2024. Michael Buckner | Billboard | Getty Images Levi Strauss summoned the Beyhive on Monday after teasing a potential collaboration with Beyoncé in a post on Instagram. The brand’s shares briefly popped after the update and were

Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China, delivers a speech during the 2024 Lujiazui Forum on June 19, 2024 in Shanghai, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China will cut the amount of cash banks need to have on hand, known as the reserve requirement ratio, or RRR,

A Southwest Airlines plane takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport on July 25, 2024 in Burbank, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images Southwest Airlines has warned employees that it will have to make “difficult decisions” ahead to boost profits as the carrier faces pressure from activist Elliott Investment Management, which has sought leadership changes at

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Monday that he expects policymakers to dial down the pace of interest rate cuts after last week’s half percentage point reduction. “I think after 50 basis points, we’re still in a net tight position,” Kashkari said in a CNBC “Squawk Box” interview. “So I was comfortable taking a

The Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse float passes by during the daily Festival of Fantasy Parade at the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World on May 31, 2024, in Orlando, Florida.  Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images The Walt Disney Company will no longer use Slack for in-house company communication months after

Local residents with umbrellas walk out of a metro station in rain during morning rush hour on September 20, 2024 in Beijing, China.  China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images BEIJING — More economists are calling for China to stimulate growth, including those based inside the country. China should issue at least

Las Vegas Raiders President Sandra Douglass Morgan & Carolina Panthers President, Kristi Coleman. Getty Images (L) | AP (R) When the Carolina Panthers take on the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, it will mark a historic first for the National Football League. The game is the first time two female presidents will go head-to-head in

Pictured here is an Apple flagship store in Beijing, China, on the day of the iPhone 16 launch on Sept. 20, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Many of Apple‘s affluent iPhone users in China are just as interested in Huawei’s pricier trifold phone, CNBC found during spot checks at stores Friday,

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Family offices are the most bullish they’ve been in years, putting their cash to work in stocks and alternatives as the Fed starts

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Family offices are the most bullish they’ve been in years, putting their cash to work in stocks and alternatives as the Fed starts

An American Airlines’ Embraer E175LR (front), an American Airlines’ Boeing 737 (C) and an American Airlines’ Boeing 737 are seen parked at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York on May 24, 2024.  Charly Triballeau | AFP | Getty Images American Airlines is in talks to make Citigroup its exclusive credit card partner, dropping rival issuer

Boeing factory workers gather on a picket line during the first day of a strike near the entrance of a production facility in Renton, Washington, U.S., September 13, 2024.  Matt Mills Mcknight | Reuters RENTON, Wash. — Cash-strapped Boeing is facing mounting costs from an ongoing machinist strike as workers push for higher pay. A

A major exchange-traded fund and mutual fund manager finds the winning gold trade isn’t talked about as much as the artificial intelligence trade — but maybe it should be. VanEck CEO Jan van Eck thinks the best investment this year is “the hedge against political cycles.” To him, that means investing in gold.  “It is quietly