Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025.CNBCOMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett shocked shareholders during the conglomerate's annual gathering on Saturday by announcing his intention to step down. For hours before that, the billionaire touched on a...
(Follow along with our full coverage of Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting here. Warren Buffett begins talking at 9 a.m. ET.)Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported first-quarter results on Saturday that showed a steep drop in operating earnings from the year-earlier period. The conglomerate, which owns a vast array of insurance,...
Venmo is more than just a way to split dinner bills. It has become a cultural phenomenon. Known for blending digital payments with social interaction, Venmo introduced a new way to think about money. It made peer-to-peer payments simple, quick, and even fun.In 2025, Venmo remains one of the...
Eaton , a maker of power management solutions for AI data centers and other commercial markets, delivered a solid quarter on Friday that raised more questions for us than it answered. Earnings per share for the first quarter ended in March rose more than 33% from the year-ago period...
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: It's been a great week for the U.S. stock market. The S & P 500 is up 1.6% Friday,...
Although one quarter isn't enough to squash all concerns, the good results were a step in the right direction.
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Duolingo — Shares soared more than 18% after the language learning app guided toward a better-than-expected revenue forecast. Duolingo estimates second-quarter revenue will come in between $239 million and $242 million, while analysts polled by LSEG expected $234 million. Full-year...
Apple CEO Tim Cook, center, watches during the inauguration ceremonies for President Donald Trump, right, and Vice President JD Vance, left, in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.Shawn Thew | Afp | Getty ImagesA tale of two different technology companies is playing out this...
Block shares were on track for their second-worst day Friday, plunging more than 20% as investors digested a brutal quarterly report and a wave of analyst downgrades centered on one issue: Cash App.The first-quarter earnings miss rattled Wall Street, prompting multiple firms — including Wells Fargo, Seaport, BMO, and...
Job growth was stronger than expected in April despite worries over the impact of President Donald Trump's blanket tariffs against U.S. trading partners.Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 177,000 for the month, slightly below the downwardly revised 185,000 in March but above the Dow Jones estimate for 133,000, the...
Warren Buffett speaks during the...
Warren Buffett speaks during the...
Gregg Greenberg spent 14 years as a journalist at TheStreet.com where he wrote the highly popular column "The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week". His work has appeared in magazines ranging from Glamour to ESPN the Magazine, and on humor sites such as Points in Case.
Ryan Christiansen, president and head distiller at Caledonia Spirits, giving a tour in Montpelier, VT.Courtesy: Ryan Christianse | Caledonia SpiritsPresident Donald Trump's tariff rhetoric against Canada has only started to heat up, but Vermont's small businesses are already feeling some pain.A shipment of spirits, ordered by the Société des alcools...
After Employer.com acquired bankrupt accounting startup Bench in a fire-sale late last year, CEO Jesse Tinsley pledged on LinkedIn and elsewhere to honor past customer payments. “We’re honoring all prepaid Bench services even though we will not have the revenue from that directly ourselves,” Tinsley said in an interview with...
Swedish fintech Klarna took the next step in its highly anticipated U.S. IPO on Friday when it made its F-1 prospectus public. We are sifting through the document now. Klarna hopes to raise at least $1 billion dollars at a $15 billion valuation with this IPO, Bloomberg reported last week....
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Rubrik — The data management stock surged 25% after fourth-quarter results surpassed analyst expectations. Rubrik lost 18 cents per share, narrower than the consensus forecast for a loss of 39 cents from analysts polled by LSEG. The California-based firm posted...
Consumer sentiment took another hit in March as worries intensified over inflation and a slumping stock market, according to the University of Michigan's latest sentiment survey released Friday.The survey posted a mid-month reading of 57.9, which represents a 10.5% decline from February and was below the Dow Jones consensus...
Docusign rose more than 14% after reporting stronger-than-expected earnings after the bell Thursday."We've really stabilized and I think started to turn the corner on the core business," CEO Allan Thygesen said Friday on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "We've become much more efficient."Here's how the company performed in the fourth quarter...
Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), pictured here on April 2, 2020, broke ground on its first overseas factory in Germany in late 2019 and plans to add up to 2,000 jobs there by 2025.Martin Schutt | picture alliance | Getty ImagesChina's Contemporary Amperex Technology posted a 9.7%...
