Levi (LEVI) earnings Q3 2024

Levi (LEVI) earnings Q3 2024

Denim-crazed consumers are turning to Levi Strauss & Co for new jeans, but the company’s overall business is being dragged down by its Dockers brand, which the company is now considering selling off, it announced Wednesday.  Sales at Levi’s brand were up 5% during its fiscal third quarter — the biggest gain in two years … Read more

JPMorgan Chase is prepared to sue the U.S. government over Zelle scams

JPMorgan Chase is prepared to sue the U.S. government over Zelle scams

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Buried in a roughly 200-page quarterly filing from JPMorgan Chase last month were eight … Read more

SEC charges Merrill Lynch and Harvest for ignoring client instructions

SEC charges Merrill Lynch and Harvest for ignoring client instructions

A logo for financial service company Merrill Lynch is seen in New York. Emmanuel Dunand | Afp | Getty Images The 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 in … Read more

What Warren Buffett’s recent moves say – and don’t say – about today’s market

What Warren Buffett’s recent moves say – and don’t say – about today’s market

When the man who’s built the greatest fortune in history from investing alone – and whose preferred holding period is “forever” – becomes a resolute seller of two of the most widely held stocks in the world, the questions about what it means for the market and economy are inevitable. And so it is with … Read more

JPMorgan investment bank creates new role overseeing junior bankers

JPMorgan Chase is prepared to sue the U.S. government over Zelle scams

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters JPMorgan Chase has created a new global role overseeing all junior bankers in an … Read more

China’s economy is going through a ‘slow, painful, grinding adjustment,’ analyst says

China’s economy is going through a ‘slow, painful, grinding adjustment,’ analyst says

People walk along the Huguosi street, Xicheng district, a dedicated food street in Beijing on August 23, 2024.  Adek Berry | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Following a slew of data released over the weekend from China that painted a fairly bleak outlook for its economy, analysts have tapered their expectations for the country’s … Read more

Moving past sticky core inflation

Moving past sticky core inflation

Prices are displayed in a store window in Brooklyn on August 14, 2024 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where … Read more

Berkshire unloads another chunk of Bank of America as CEO Moynihan lauds Buffett as great shareholder

Berkshire unloads another chunk of Bank of America as CEO Moynihan lauds Buffett as great shareholder

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024.  CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway offloaded another chunk of Bank of America shares, bringing its total sales to more than $7 billion since mid-July and reducing its stake to 11%. The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate shed a total of … Read more

What’s likely to move the market

What’s likely to move the market

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 9, 2024.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. … Read more

All cleared for a soft landing?

All cleared for a soft landing?

A customer pushes a shopping cart with bags outside of a Whole Foods Market grocery store on August 26, 2024 in El Segundo, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they … Read more