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Traders watch as U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin greet each other as they meet to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 15, 2025 in New York City, USA.Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersThis 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. October SurpriseStocks fell on Friday after President Donald Trump threatened a “massive increase in tariffs” on Chinese goods.…
ST HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Authorities Monday identified three men and a woman who died during the riot. weekend shooting incident At a bar in South Carolina. At least 20 other people were injured.When the shootings began Sunday, Willy’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island was crowded with people, many of whom attended Battery Creek High School in Beaufort and were at the bar for an alumni event.Flowers and candles were placed outside the bar after the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office identified the dead as Kashawn Glaze, 22, Chiraad Smalls, 33, Amos Gary, 54, and Ashantek Millidge, 22.Investigators…
HAVANA (AP) — Prominent Cuban Dissident José Daniel Ferrer left the island for U.S. asylum on Monday at the request of the U.S. government, Cuban and U.S. authorities confirmed. Alejandro Garcia, director of bilateral relations at Cuba’s foreign ministry, told The Associated Press that Ferrer, 55, left his hometown of Santiago in eastern Cuba around noon and was on his way to Florida. “He is leaving the country in response to a request from the U.S. government to the Cuban government, which (Ferrer) agrees to,” Garcia said.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed in a statement that Ferrer arrived on…
The last 20 living hostages held in Gaza were released on Monday and reunited with their families in jubilant scenes as world leaders gathered in Egypt to discuss the future of Gaza and the next steps in a US-brokered cease-fire agreement. For the first time in more than two years, Hamas and its allies do not hold any live hostages in Gaza. Meanwhile, 1,718 Palestinians held without charge in Israel were released on Monday and returned to Gaza. Israel also released 250 Palestinians serving long sentences. “This long, painful nightmare is finally over,” US President Donald Trump said in a…
When counseling clients, financial advisors often distinguish between investing and speculation.Investing, they say, generally means continually buying into widely distributed parts of the market, allowing compound interest to work over decades. “Real investing is boring. It’s like watching paint dry,” Ramit Sethi, author of How to Get Rich, told CNBC Make It in July 2023.Speculation, on the other hand, is not exciting. Speculators purchase assets that offer very high returns and considerable risk of loss. And when it comes to building wealth, taking a little extra risk can pay off big, says Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The President donald trump I am declaring battle between israel and hamas It has taken control of the Gaza Strip and is already moving toward a much larger goal — a fragile regime-backed ceasefire it claims is a facilitator. A chance for lasting peace To the wider Middle East.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is similarly enthusiastic about the current situation, but is more cautious in his assessment of the future. He characterized the agreement, which is still in its early stages, as a “proposal to free hostages and end the war,” but said his country had used…
Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen Each of her Diane’s Book Club co-stars paid tribute to the late actress. The Elf actress stressed that her late friend was “magical”. “There has never been anyone like her, and there never will be,” she said in a statement. “I loved her and felt happy to be her friend. Her love for her family. What a magical person she was!!!” “It’s hard to believe and accept that Diane has passed away,” Jane wrote in an Instagram post. “She was always a ray of life and light, always laughing at her weaknesses and infinitely…
A growing number of workers are prepared to quit their jobs if their company asks them to return to the office, a new report has found.According to FlexJobs’ 2025 State of the Workforce Report, a survey of 3,000 U.S. professionals found that 76% of U.S. workers said they would look for a new job if they were no longer allowed to work remotely.This is a nearly 20% increase from last year’s report, in which 57% of employees said they would “definitely” look for another job if they could no longer continue working remotely.Additionally, 85% of job seekers said remote work…
Reuters — Ian Watkins, the former frontman of Welsh rock band Lostprophets and serving a 35-year sentence for child sex crimes, was murdered in prison by another inmate, British media reported on Saturday. Watkins, 48, was serving his sentence at Wakefield Prison in northern England. West Yorkshire Police said in a statement: “At 9.39am this morning (Saturday), staff at HMP Wakefield called police to a report of an assault on a prisoner.” “Emergency services were called and the man was pronounced dead a short time later at the scene.” The statement did not name Watkins. Police did not respond to…
Jen Tran & Devin StraderStatus: SplitOn the season 21 finale of The Bachelorette, it seemed like Bachelor alum Jen Tran finally had her happy ending with finalist Devin Strader. But Jen revealed on After the Final Rose in September 2024 that Devin snubbed her as soon as the cameras stopped. “He would boldly declare his love and then all of a sudden the next day he wouldn’t say anything and he would deny that he was in love,” Jen told host Jesse Palmer on the Sept. 3 episode. “All the promises he made to me, all the love he wanted…