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Exterior of Macy’s Herald Square store in New York City, November 28, 2025. Kenna Betancourt | AFP | Getty ImagesThis is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Go shoppingMacy’s The company beat Wall Street’s third-quarter revenue and bottom line expectations this morning, marking the fastest growth rate in more than three years. The department store operator’s results are just one of several data points investors have received recently on the state of U.S. consumers.Here’s what you need to know:Despite the…
There’s nothing I want more than something I want but can’t have. In fact, for most people, there is a hierarchy of spending:If you don’t want something and don’t have it, you don’t think about it. If you want something and don’t have it, you may feel okay. If you want something but don’t have it, you may feel demotivated. If you want something and can’t get it, you completely drive yourself crazy.As I explain in my book, The Art of Spending Money, it hardly matters what that “something” is here. A glass of water to a thirsty person is…
When Ebuka Obi Uchendu first entered the Big Brother Naija house in 2006, he was a shy law graduate with no intention of seeking fame. “Anyone who knew me back then would have been shocked that I would even think of that,” he joked in an interview with CNN’s Larry Maddow. “I was a very shy child. I couldn’t even look.” His motivations at the time were pragmatic and clear. “It ended up being $100,000,” he recalls. “I had the bright idea to go on the show, win, and then get a master’s degree. That was the plan.” He didn’t…
Around the turn of the century, Darren Aronofsky wanted to make a ballet film, inspired by his sister’s dance lessons. He also became fascinated with the idea of doppelgangers after reading Dostoyevsky’s The Double. They met for coffee in New York in 2000, when he was already thinking that Natalie Portman would be the perfect leading actress. At the time, she had just played Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I and was a student at Harvard University. “She said I had the whole movie in my head, which is a complete lie,” Aronofsky told Collider in 2010, but Portman…
(The stream is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. ET. If you don’t see the player above at that time, please refresh the page.)President Donald Trump is holding a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, as his administration grapples with a number of major political issues that have surfaced in the less than eight weeks since senior administration officials last convened.The meeting came amid increased bipartisan scrutiny over the administration’s decision to launch multiple missile attacks on suspected Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessels in early September. The White House announced Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized Navy Adm.…
french satellite group eutelsatThe company, which is seen as Europe’s answer to Elon Musk’s Starlink, saw its stock price plummet on Wednesday following reports from Japanese investors. Softbank Reduce investment in the company. Eutelsat stock was trading down 7.8% as of 6 a.m. ET.The move follows a Reuters report that SoftBank sold about 26 million shares and the rights to 36 million shares, about half of the satellite carrier’s stake.Eutelsat is the owner of satellite internet provider OneWeb, which they merged with in 2023 to counter Starlink’s dominance in the market.But the French group has struggled to capture market share…
Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed head to toe in military uniform, on Sunday received the news he had been waiting for for more than a year. Russia has captured the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine. It doesn’t matter that Kiev disputed the claim, saying on Tuesday that fighting was still ongoing in the city and that Moscow’s “bravado statements” about the capture of Pokrovsk “do not correspond to reality.” The purpose of the highly orchestrated meeting between President Putin and military leaders was to demonstrate to the world that Russia was winning in Ukraine. The Kremlin said Putin was…
US President Donald Trump will play a key role in the draw for the most-watched World Cup in FIFA history.Published December 3, 2025December 3, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe draw for the 2026 World Cup, soccer’s biggest global show ever held, will be held in Washington on Friday, with US President Donald Trump expected to feature prominently in the draw.The tournament, which has been expanded to 48 teams from the 32 countries participating in the 2022 Qatar World Cup, will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada from June 11 to July 19 next year.Recommended…
Tech CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan on Tuesday pledged $6.25 billion to the so-called Trump Account, a type of tax-advantaged savings account for children.This initiative will expand access to seed money for eligible children who are too old to qualify for the upcoming $1,000 grant from the Treasury Department. With the additional funding, about 25 million American children under the age of 10 born before Jan. 1, 2025, will each receive a $250 grant in Trump’s account, according to Invest America, a nonprofit advocacy group affiliated with the Dells.”It’s designed to help families feel supported from the start…
Chris Pratt is the guardian of his own little galaxy. The Marvel star shared a dressed-up Thanksgiving snap with his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger, their daughters Lyla, 5, and Eloise, 3, and his sons Ford, 13 months, and son Jack, 12, with ex-wife Anna Faris. The children’s faces were covered with white hearts to protect their privacy, but they all had similar dark blonde hair, and precious family photos still showed how similar they were. Lila and Eloise went one step further and twinned in pink floral dresses that matched the ribbons in their hair, and also coordinated with their mother…