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Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan speaking on Squawk Box at the WEF in Davos Switzerland on Jan. 20th, 2019. Adam Galica | CNBC Another financial giant is adding to the growing consensus that the correct price of a stock trade is zero. Bank of America said Monday that any customer of its retail banking

Sunrun installer putting up solar electric panels on a residential rooftop in California. Source: Sunrun Hedge fund Tiger Global Management is making a big bet on continued expansion at San-Francisco-based Sunrun, which has grown into the nation’s largest residential solar company. The fund, headed by Julian Robertson protégé Chase Coleman, has been steadily increasing its

Denver money manager Fred Taylor of Northstar Investment Advisors. Source: Northstar Investment Advisors Managing investments in a year fraught with headline risks requires a sound strategy and the conviction to stand by it, but also the flexibility to take advantage of fast-changing market conditions. Denver money manager Fred Taylor has long focused on companies that

Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor, waits for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, to speak at an election night event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is moving his

Five states hit new lows in unemployment during September, including a couple that could be pivotal in the 2020 presidential election. As the national jobless level fell to 3.5%, a 50-year low, Alabama (3%), California (4%), Illinois (3.9%), New Jersey (3.1%) and South Carolina (2.9%) set all-time bottoms in data that goes back to 1976,

Pimco founder and bond industry legend Bill Gross is done with his previous life running huge investment bonds and making market headlines. But that doesn’t mean he’s done as an investor. Instead, the one-time “bond king” is putting money to work for his own sake rather than running what was once the world’s largest bond

David Solomon of Goldman Sachs & Co. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says the bank’s stake in WeWork is still profitable, even after the company suffered a number of valuation cuts and now faces a bailout crisis. “That was an investment we made a number of years ago

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Thursday that the company is just starting to build out its consumer-facing digital banking offerings. “We’re building for the long term. I feel good about the progress that we’re making,” the Goldman chief said in an interview with CNBC’s Wilfred Frost. “I think we’re in the early stages of

A slew of Wall Street’s top hedge fund managers shared their best ideas on Wednesday at the annual Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference. The conference is best known for hedge fund managers making market-moving presentations. The Sohn conference held in San Francisco is the West Coast version of the investment conferences that began in New

In this photo illustration, an ‘Impossible Whopper’ sits on a table at a Burger King restaurant on April 1, 2019 in Richmond Heights, Missouri. Burger King announced on Monday that it is testing out Impossible Whoppers, made with plant-based patties from Impossible Foods, in 59 locations in and around St. Louis area. Michael Thomas |

Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller came to the New York Stock Exchange to discuss his new book, “Narrative Economics.” It’s a book about storytelling: Humans understand the world by telling stories, Shiller says. “The most natural thing in our brains to talk about is gossip, okay?,” Shiller said. “We love these stories. We center around

Adam Neumann, CEO of WeWork. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters Goldman Sachs was stung by its bet on WeWork — but not as badly as some analysts had feared. The bank lost about $80 million on its stake in the coworking company in the third quarter, CFO Stephen Scherr told investors Tuesday. While WeWork’s valuation plunged

Jordan Katzman, co-founder of SmileDirectClub Inc., left, and Alex Fenkell, co-founder of SmileDirectClub Inc., watch traders during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of SmileDirectClub plummeted more than 13%, on Monday after California Governor

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett walks through the exhibit hall as shareholders gather to hear from the billionaire investor at Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., May 4, 2019. Scott Morgan | Reuters David Rolfe, a longtime Berkshire Hathaway shareholder and chief investment officer at Wedgewood Partners, is fed up with

Fidelity Investments has joined its rivals by offering zero-commission online trades, but it’s trying to differentiate itself by not selling the right to execute trades to third-party firms, brokerage executive Kathleen Murphy told CNBC on Friday. “We do not take payment-for-order-flow on equity orders,” said Murphy, president of Fidelity’s personal investing business. “Many competitors do

Fidelity clients saving for retirement are starting to move some money out of stocks in the recently volatile market, the brokerage’s personal investing president told CNBC on Friday. “The average investor that doesn’t trade a lot that’s really looking to save for their retirement — we have millions of customers like that — we’ve seen

The state of Michigan has pulled $600 million of its pension fund from wealth management company Fisher Investments after the company’s founder and CEO Ken Fisher made sexist comments at a summit in San Francisco this week. At the Tiburon conference, Fisher compared his wealth management strategy to picking up women for sex, made explicit

US President Donald Trump shows a letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping as he announces and initial deal with China while meeting the special Envoy and Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China Liu He Special Envoy and Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China Liu He at the Oval Office of the

President Donald Trump speaks after announcing and initial deal with China while meeting the special Envoy and Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China Liu He at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on October 11, 2019. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images After a partial trade deal, what’s

President Donald Trump meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters A slimmed-down trade deal, stalled talks and a “fluid” situation are just some of the conflicting reports that have surfaced this week as the