Author: Daniel snow

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Tuesday’s key moments. 1. Markets are higher Tuesday following Monday’s solid intraday turnaround. “This is another one of those days where you look at the futures beforehand, and the futures say it’s going to be a really ugly day,” Jim Cramer said. “And then it turns out to not only be not that ugly of a day, but there’s opportunity everywhere.” Amid the latest trade headlines, the Trump administration wants countries to put in their best offers by…

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Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California warned Tuesday that the nation’s economy and talent pipeline could take a hit if international students opt against attending colleges in the United States because of President Donald Trump’s visa policies.”The reality is that you have people like Elon Musk who were foreign students, I mean, they have been embedded in Silicon Valley and the companies that have been created,” Khanna said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, said that world-class educational opportunities for foreign students are one of America’s “biggest exports of anything.””You go talk to Stanford, you talk to other…

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Popular Buy Now, Pay Later firm Klarna reported continued losses for the quarter that ended in March, despite an expanding user base and growing revenues. The company attributes much of the losses to one-off expenses, such as corporate restructuring.Users of BNPL services have reported problems, too. Some 4 in 10 say they paid late on at least one of them in the past year, according to a recent survey from LendingTree.Still, these services are becoming more and more prevalent of late, with BNPL firm Affirm inking an exclusive deal with Walmart and Klarna partnering with DoorDash, the latter prompting a…

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Alina Habba, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, arrives at the courthouse where Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka’s hearing will be held on May 15, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. Stephanie Keith | Getty ImagesNewark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka sued his state’s top prosecutor, Alina Habba, on Tuesday over his arrest last month at an immigration detention center in his city.Baraka’s lawsuit alleges that Habba falsely arrested, maliciously prosecuted and defamed the Democratic mayor.Habba is President Donald Trump’s former personal defense lawyer, and his pick for interim U.S. attorney for the Garden State. The federal civil…

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Jan Williamson, retired, age 72, of Penn Argyle, Pennsylvania, often finds herself chatting up ChatGPT for answers to questions instead of what used to be the old searching standby: Google.”It will give you plenty of basic information, and expanded information if you ask for it, on any topic you can think of. I now use it regularly to give me information on anything I don’t understand or am curious about,” said Williamson.But if Williamson engages in conversations with it that are too long, she’d notice ChatGPT might start to run out of gas, despite the massive data farms that power the…

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Employers increased job openings more than expected in April while hiring and layoffs also both rose, according to a report Tuesday that showed a relatively steady labor market.The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed available jobs totaled nearly 7.4 million, an increase of 191,000 from March and higher than the 7.1 million consensus forecast by economists surveyed by FactSet. On an annual basis, the level was off 228,000, or about 3%.The ratio of available jobs to unemployed workers was down to 1.03 to 1 for the month, close to the March level.Hiring also increased for…

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