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- The No. 1 thing this Walmart exec looks for in an employee: It’s ‘a total green flag’by Ashton Jackson on August 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Donna Morris values employees who do exactly what they say they will and raise their hand for more tasks. That can be hard to do if you’re burnt out, however.
- White House’s Hassett says government likely to continue taking stakes in companies similar to Intel dealby Jeff Cox on August 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The stake in Intel is part of a broader strategy to create a sovereign wealth fund that could include more companies, Hassett said Monday.
- How to play tech outside of the megacaps, and an industrial stock that will get a boost from Fed rate cutsby Frank Holland on August 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Frank Holland breaks down what traders are watching ahead of the new session.
- This investing strategy is ‘extremely effective,’ even when markets are volatile, CFP saysby Ryan Ermey on August 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Dollar-cost averaging can help you ignore short-term market noise, experts say.
- Here are Monday’s biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, Apple, Netflix, American Eagle, Broadcom & moreby Michael Bloom on August 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Monday.
- Elon Musk’s xAI secretly dropped its benefit corporation status while fighting OpenAIby Lora Kolodny on August 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Elon Musk started xAI as a public benefit corporation, but dropped that distinction last year as the company’s operations in Memphis, Tennessee were expanding.
- Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Keurig Dr Pepper, Okta, Intel, Verint Systems and moreby Brian Evans on August 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
These are the stocks posting the largest moves in premarket trading.
- Powell sparks a rally, the U.S. invests in Intel, Keurig Dr Pepper buys JDE Peet’s and more in Morning Squawkby Alex Harring on August 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
- ‘Quiet cracking’ at work is less visible than ‘quiet quitting,’ but it’s ‘just as dangerous,’ report findsby Ana Teresa Solá on August 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Some workers are experiencing a trend called “quiet cracking,” which refers to a sense of disengagement and poor satisfaction in the job. Here’s what to know.
- Nvidia faces Wall Street’s high expectations two years into AI boomby Kif Leswing on August 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Nvidia’s business started transforming two years ago, as demand for processors to power AI workloads transformed the chipmaker.
- Investment bank Lazard to get a boost from improving dealmaking outlook, KBW saysby Lisa Kailai Han on August 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The firm upgraded Lazard stock to an outperform rating from market perform.
- Bank of America downgrades American Eagle, says Sydney Sweeney boost to be spoiled by tariff costsby Lisa Kailai Han on August 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Bank of America believes that shares of American Eagle could fall an additional 22% from here.
- Student loan forgiveness delays and backlogs could lead to ‘massive’ tax bills for borrowers, advocate saysby Annie Nova on August 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Delays in student loan forgiveness could leave borrowers with an unexpected bill to the IRS.
- Nvidia gets a price target increase from Stifel ahead of earnings this weekby Lisa Kailai Han on August 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The firm maintained its overweight rating on the stock, while raising its price target.
- Evergrande’s $50 billion rise and fall leaves scars on China’s property sectorby Anniek Bao,Lee Ying Shan on August 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“The state-owned developers will end up running the entire industry,” Brian McCarthy, managing principal at Macrolens, told CNBC.
- ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ gives Netflix its first box-office winby CNBC on August 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Netflix appears to have its first No. 1 box-office title in the streaming company’s 18-year history thanks to the sensation of “KPop Demon Hunters.”
- Auto giants forced to confront some hard truths in the age of ‘polycrisis’by Sam Meredith on August 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Top original equipment manufacturers are caught in a perfect storm.
- Orsted shares tumble 17% as U.S. government halts wind project constructionby Sophie Kiderlin on August 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The U.S. last week ordered the company to halt construction of an almost completed project.
- U.S. Treasury yields tick higher as investors look toward key inflation data later in the weekby Lee Ying Shan on August 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Treasury yields inched higher as investors look toward key inflation data later in the week.
- European stocks head for lower open as UK markets remain closedby Sophie Kiderlin on August 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
European markets were set to start the day lower on Monday.
- CNBC Daily Open: Expectations of Jerome’s rate cuts weren’t built in a dayby Yeo Boon Ping on August 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A glimpse of a shadow of a suggestion that the Fed might start lowering interest rates again was enough to send U.S. stocks surging and Treasury yields falling.
- Keurig Dr Pepper to acquire Dutch coffee company JDE Peet’s for $18 billionby Ruxandra Iordache on August 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
After its planned acquisition of Dutch coffee company JDE Peet’s, Keurig Dr Pepper will split its beverage and coffee units into two separate U.S.-listed firms.
- Chinese households have amassed record savings. That’s now fueling a stock market boomby Lee Ying Shan on August 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
China’s stock market is rallying even as the economy remains under strain. Ordinary Chinese households flush with record savings is fueling the surge.
- From the ‘Big Stay’ to a ‘no-hire, no-fire’ freeze, labor markets are seeing sizable shiftsby Holly Ellyatt on August 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Many workers are staying put in their jobs, while businesses are putting the brakes on hiring or firing.
- Singapore July inflation eases to cooler-than-expected 0.6% — lowest since Jan. 2021by Lim Hui Jie on August 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This was lower than the 0.7% expected by economists polled by Reuters, and was also below the 0.8% seen in June.