Economy

Israel. Army post on the border with South Lebanon. Mark Hannaford Treasury yields fell on Tuesday as traders continue to monitor the latest developments between Iran and the U.S. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — the key benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — fell 2 basis points to 4.457%. The 2-year Treasury […]

A Polymarket advertisement in a subway station in New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Prediction market platform Polymarket has completed its first block trade on an artificial intelligence compute infrastructure-related contract, the company shared exclusively with CNBC. The six-figure transaction was between FalconX, a digital asset […]

Fire during an explosion of the uncrewed Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during a test on a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 28, 2026, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video. NASASpaceflight.com | Reuters NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Monday told CNBC that it will “take some serious time” to restore the […]

Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks at the Nvidia GTC conference on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026. Lam Yik Fei | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell Technology as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up 20% on Tuesday. […]

Reddit logo on website. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Reddit is ramping up efforts to attract more users outside of the U.S., putting countries like India and Brazil in focus as it looks to unlock new advertising opportunities, a top company executive told CNBC. In a wide-ranging interview, Jen Wong, chief operating officer […]

Skoda Kodiaq automobiles on the production line at the Volkswagen AG plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A small landlocked country in the heart of Europe appears to be uniquely exposed to President-elect Donald Trump’s “America First” economic agenda. Nicknamed the “Detroit of Europe” due to […]

Girl holding shopping bags and walking down the street Pixelseffect | E+ | Getty Images If you’re trying to stay on top of your spending, you might have logged your finances in a spreadsheet, tracked every dollar, and created a strict spending plan, but one expert says budgeting like this can be “toxic.” Dana Miranda […]

Containers near a berthed cargo vessel at a terminal in the southeastern port city of Busan on Nov. 24, 2024. Anthony Wallace | Afp | Getty Images The shipping industry is contending with a worldwide shortage of seafarers, and it’s fueling a troubling mix of fake resumes, accidents at sea, and elevated freight rates. “We […]

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during an event in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned. The new financing will allow the Japanese […]

The AI revolution is 50 times bigger than the dot-com revolution in the 2000s, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told CNBC Monday. “I think this is like more than 10x, probably 50x bigger than dot-com,” Son told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal in Paris, a day after the company announced that it’s investing 75 trillion euros ($87 trillion) […]